Thursday the 2nd

So much grayness after a few fleeting minutes of sun this morning.

Our post master himself was delivering mail this forenoon.  I greeted him as I do each day whoever deliveries the mail.  It’s the least I can do when they are moving as fast as possible and they can hand off the mail rather than getting the mail into the small slot in the house wall.  I am not sure if there is a heater in their small vehicle that is parked several blocks away as they make deliveries in a loop.

The kitchen is filling with the aroma of a pork roost in the crock pot.  I plan on doing boiled potatoes and green beans for supper.

Dennis’ report came from his last lab work of the VA’s.  More foods with iron will need to be on Dennis’ menu.  Yup.  I was on the internet like a flash and each day’s menu will have what is needed.

My stitching entails finishing the bell-pull that I have been working on.  The band across is 40 stitches.  I am using the variegated silk embroidery floss that was Carrie and Kevin’s grandmother’s.  Esther Schafer passed away in 1973.  I do know for a fact that from the time I knew Esther, 1963, she was totally into crocheting.  This full hank of silk floss would like to tell tales.  I feel very honored to be working with it.  My goal is to find enough projects going forward to use the majority of it up.  This bell-pull is my one current work in progress.  Well . . . there is one project I started in 2023 on fabric that is 20 stitches to the inch that takes one strand of floss in the needle at a time.  Esther’s project takes two strands over two stitches as it is 40 count making it equivalent to the 20 count.  This Grammie has a good feeling about wrapping up the bell-pull.

I have a heavy duty mystery book I am just about to finish.  It is spell-binding.  It is less than 100 pages out of the 456 pages.  The reading, I usually do before turning in for the night.  Mark Greaney is the author and I have scored two additional books of his.  I have several authors that I like.  My stash is such that I do not blow through all of the books from one author but interject a break from one to another.

With that I will take my leave.  ♥