WEEK 7

 

I was busy this week with my projects.  Nothing got completed, other than books.  Progress was made on all of them.  Wanna see?

Good!  Here we go...............................

KNITTING

Both of the RCR socks got about 20 rows added to them.  I consider these my slow but steady project.  Neither hubby or I are in dire need of socks at the moment.  Therefore, these can take their time getting finished and sock #2 being done.  Good for TV viewing or for take along projects.

DIAMOND ART

A new section of the LARGE project has been started.  I am trying to limit myself to an hour a day max to work on this.  Otherwise, I will completely get absorbed and nothing else in my house will get accomplished.  (ie: making dinner, laundry, feeding Enrique etc.)

I did start a new Diamond Art that travels with me to Josh's house.  

This will be the finished product.  I may gift this one to a dear friend.  She is a woman of great faith and inspires me every time I have a conversation with her.

CROCHET

 

Move along

SEWING

Keep going

CROSS STITCH

Nothing here either

LEGO

Nope

PUZZLE

YES!  I finally got one out and started on it.

I am not very far along with it.  There is an excellent reason for that.  Here is the box it came in.

Inside I find this piece of paper.

I called my friend, who I got the puzzle from, and questioned her.  Seems, they ordered this from Amazon and while putting it together realized the puzzle in the box was not what they were working on.  She was kind enough to go online and find a photo of what they actually were making and put it in the box for the next unknowing person to find and use to help with the puzzle.  That photo is only about half a page big so details are a bit hard to see in it.  I will persevere.

READING

This has been my strong suit this week. I finished 'Home for Christmas'.  Next up was one of my 'on hold' books..........The Apothecary's Poison.  That also was completed and now I am reading 'Booked for Christmas'.  I should finish that one either today or tomorrow.  I do believe there is a third book in the Christmas series.  So, until my other books that are on hold show up, I will continue with that series.

SOMETHING NEW BUT OLD

Those of you that have followed me for sometime know I started working with sourdough a few years back.  I have neglected it for a few months now.  Yesterday, I pulled my starter out of its little fridge and decided to get it active again.  I have 5 days in a row that I normally do not have any out of the home activities.  Hence, there is no reason I can not get back into my sourdough baking and maintain an active healthy starter at all times.  Fingers crossed!

LIFE

I only spent one day this week with Josh.  So, lots of home chores got taken care of.  For starters, a load of donations got dropped off.  I also gave back books I had borrowed from Josie some time ago.  I organized all my diamond art projects.  All the laundry was done.  Bread was made.  Menus were completed as was grocery shopping.  Enrique's dog food was cooked and bagged and frozen.  But the best thing ever..................We finally got our solar back on!  We had been without solar power for 11 days.  And naturally, it was the hottest 11 days of our entire year (118F 48C).  My poor electric bill is going to be HUGE!  But, now we are back on solar and it is wonderful to see my electric usage charge being almost nil.  HAPPY DANCE!

This coming week, we have 2 days we will be with Josh.  He is about the same as last week.  His memory timeline is getting worse and delusions are more frequent.  He even knows his brain is not functioning correctly and it really upsets him that he can not control it.  But, we usually manage to get it turned around and make some jokes about it and then he feels better.

We have some horrible mountain forest fires happening in our state right now.  Depending on how the wind blows, we can get some of the smoke and smell here in the valley.  This was taken on Wednesday night when I took Enrique out for his bedtime potty break.  The minute I opened the door, I could smell the smoke that was coming from 100 miles away.

The pink glow is the smoke hiding the moon.  It was so nasty outside.  My friend, with asthma, has had to stay indoors for several days because of our horrible air quality here.  Thankfully, Thursday night, we finally got some rain to help cleanse the air.  The last few days we have had some good breezes too which is blowing the crud out of here.  Oh the joys of big city life!

I do have a little chuckle for you today.............................

Until Next Time......................Happy Crafting!!!!!!!!!