Mowing Team
The mowing team on Stauffer Avenue has the blue barn acre mowed. Sweet! I do enjoy helping with some of the yard work. The zer0-turn, from starting it to backing it where it needs to be in the back garage is getting easier.
This morning while I was waiting for Dennis to give the all clear in regard to how wet the grass was, I pulled from my stash. I pulled deep from my emotional stash. All these years I have had a Wonder Bread plastic bag among my sewing items that had been Esther Schafer’s, aka: my children’s maternal grandmother. I would look at the contents from time to time and then zip . . . out came the twister to close it up again.
I knew what the contents were as a bit of paper no bigger than a paperclip had scrawled on it “silk.” An entire hank of silk. Talk about intimidation! On to booting up YouTube. The floss was variegated going from bronze to tan to navy to steel gray. I knew I wanted to cut it in half. The beauty of a YouTube video is that you can back it up as often as needed. I now have it contained and in a zip-lock bag. Will I ever use that entire hank in my stitching? On the photo with the scissors there is one thread lying across the scissors. 
That one thread is 6 ply. When I cross stitch I use two of the 6 ply. By following the instruction, I can take my needle at the top where the knot is and snag one thread of 6 ply and pull it free from the braid. I had to try it and it worked great. There will be or should not be any tangle whatsoever.
Dennis has “people.” Dennis’ friend Jack has live traps. Dennis knew where the holes were and from there is was a crap shoot. Woodchucks eat everything that is on the blue barn acre. When Dennis was at the back garage after mowing, Jack stopped in. Within one week, one possum and two woodchucks. Jack is hopeful for more as woodchucks generally have four in a litter. Wow!
On a more somber note. I do post the ongoing situation with Dennis’ son Jeff. It is reality when people choose not to be responsible in the care of the body and life God has given. Five liters of fluid were removed from Jeff yesterday. OMG! I did go on to Mayo portal for the summery of the appointment.
I put in a pork steak in the blue speckled roaster for supper. Dennis said to next time try bone-in porkchops with white sauce to bake out. For the life of me, pan frying porkchops so they stay moist . . . cannot do.
I had bought a small container of Mrs. Gerry’s coleslaw. I fixed it the Lena way. Minnie marshmallows and a sliced banana. Dennis sampled it last night as I put it in the refrigerator. I got a thumbs up.
I hope everyone had as great of a day as we have had on Stauffer Avenue.
With that I take my leave. ♥