Squirrels
With no snow cover the squirrels are tucking away goodies to last them through the spring of 2025.
The sun popped out for about five minutes. Heavy air is abound.
First things first this morning . . . even before my first cup of coffee.
The crock pot is doing its thing for our supper. The fare will be a pork roast, carrots and onions. This time of year onions are questionable. The very center can be bad. I cut three planks of onions, with the centers missing and laid them on top of the roast. I will follow with boiled potatoes. The potatoes that will be left over make great American fries for another meal.
With my stitch projects, I thought I had hit a brick wall. The project called Believe was stitched on a skimpy piece of blue fabric. So much so, I glued it right into the hoop. Out came Kersten’s stash of goodies from Dueber’s. I really liked the lace trim with pearls sewn onto the edge. With many, many pins, I glued the lace trim to the outside rim of the hoop. When I went down to the studio this morning and took out all the pins, the lace cupped around the hoop. Try hard as I could to stretch the outer edge of the lace . . . nothing. Up on a nail hanging from the floor joist of the studio, I spied with my little eyes, a red embroidery hoop. It is the same type I use all the time, only my favorite is much smaller and easier to hang on to. It took a few tries to get the finished stitched pieced in the center of the hoop before I used the most tension possible to zap it on top of the project. When the tension is released it snaps itself and the project into the ring.
The stitched item called “Faith” ended up being an odd size. I dug around in the cistern closet and found a frame I would need to make work. In my fabric stashes I found the perfect blue to sew around the stitched item. Of course it didn’t look straight. Again to Kersten’s stash. Gluing down the narrow trim with seed pearls in it allowed me to fudge and make it look better. Hey! If it were perfect it would have a label included that had a foreign country named on it.
Life is good here on Stauffer Avenue. I decided the studio would be open again for business on Monday . . . or maybe not.
Dennis starts PT tomorrow at 11:15 with Dan Kern. I am excited for Dennis. His left leg had gone through three angioplasties working to open up blood supply. His leg being weak prior to the hip breaking needs this PT big time.
The crock pot is telling me to get some potatoes ready for the saucepan on top of the kitchen range.
With that I will take my leave. ♥