General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today..visit with friends #115, 1 by zhinu

zhinu wrote:
Betty, I like cross stitch, it’s calming for me; at least it is when it goes right, but that’s the same with any art. I can’t do freehand embroidery to save my life though.

My garden is doing it’s thing. In other words I haven’t gotten around to doing much in it. Some of the seeds I planted have bloomed and at least part of the yard is doing well. I desperately need to get out and weed; I also have some plants to put in the ground, but I just haven’t had the energy. Part of it is we haven’t had good weather to garden for awhile, either to hot or too wet. I don’t deal well with heat. We got some goldfish for my fountain and they’re all still alive. I am pretty happy with what I accomplished, though I could do a lot more. It would be perfect if I had about $200 dollars to spend on it.

Sage did really well on the drive. I was really worried with being on the road for 10 hours at a time, but she did as well as any of us; even though she really only had her Ipod to entertain her. She slept a lot of the way, there and back. She loved the lake; we spent most of the full day we were there in the water. The area used to have a silver mine so she was able to find rocks with silver flecks in the, which she thought was one of the coolest things. Jeff and Donella, the wedding couple, are two of her favorite people; I wish they lived closer; they really are the perfect aunt and uncle.

I’m still not feeling great. It’s not horrible, but I’ve been running a low grade fever since we left Idaho, and just feeling icky. The trip back I was actually getting a little car sick which is really rare for me, so I slept a lot of the way home too.

I’m so glad my headaches aren’t as common; I used to feel I had headaches more often than I didn’t.

The design is one that I made and takes up 12 sheets of graph paper; so there is no picture of what it will look like, except for on the patter when all laid out. The amount I’ve finished isn’t enough to bother taking a picture of, when I get where you can see what I’m doing I’ll get a picture posted.

Crissy, it’ll be worth it if they like it.

Sage, DH and I all like “Scooby Do, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny reruns, and cartoons along the Bugs Bunny line” as well as a few others. I’m corrupting her into watching more adult shows like “Next Food Network Star” “Iron Chef” “Chopped” “Mythbusters” etc. but it’s nice to watch cartoons too. I just only have so much tolerance for the modern kid’s shows.

Isn’t the area beautiful?