Photo a Day July 5, 6, 7 and 8

July 5 topic was On the Floor.

Before our trip, it was suitcases and dirty laundry!

July 6 topic was Chair.

Underneath the clothes and behind the suitcases is Tim's Sunday napping chair.

July 7 topic was Garden.

You saw this picture in today's post; it's the Sculpture Garden at the Mississippi Welcome Center. 

July 8 topic is Lunch.

 Out of our picnic spread you saw in today's post, this was my lunch: chicken and lettuce on sandwich flat bread, baby carrots in hummus and water.

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I should be back to posting one picture a day tomorrow.

Blessings :-)

Day 1

Our bags packed, ready to go!

It's been a quiet, uneventful day on the road. The weather's been good, a little rainy. Traffic was light until we got to Mississippi, then we crawled the rest of the way to our hotel in Louisiana.

Here are some pictures from the day:

The rest stop in Tallahassee

We had a nice picnic lunch.

The rain we encountered in Alabama.

Going into the tunnel in Mobile. This always makes me nervous!

Hard to believe we're driving underwater!

Sitting outside the Mississippi Welcome Center with my friend, Judi

They had a neat sculpture garden there.

Hard to read here, but it explains how these men made the sculpture garden from oak trees killed by Hurricane Katrina.

I thought this cloud looked neat. 

Made it to Louisiana safe and sound! 

I did make about 85 yo yos today but didn't take any pictures.

See you tomorrow for day 2!

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Blessings :-)

Last Day at Home Before Our Trip

What a week! Getting ready for a big trip is more work than actually going! It's going to be all worth it, though. We're going to have a great time. 13 hours until we leave! 

We got Hope dropped off at her friend's house; no tears this year. She's too excited about getting to play with horses all week :-) 

All the packing is done except for food and bathroom supplies; those will be done tomorrow morning.

We have a few things to do this evening (cleaning, mostly; I can't leave a dirty house), but we've been able to relax this afternoon for the first time all week. I even managed to get a little crocheting done.

I finally finished the blanket for Project Linus. It came out very pretty, but I don't think I'll make the pattern again with baby weight yarn and a G hook; it took forever! But it's done, it's cute, and it's in the mail.

I made the week 8 squares for the Granny Square CAL. I really like this pattern. I'd love to try it with a yellow center with white and blue for the other rounds.

And I made one of Astri's roses in patriotic colors. I wondered how it would look multi colored, and I was very happy with the result.

Thank you for all the lovely comments lately; I apologize for not responding in a timely manner. And I've been terrible about seeing what everyone else is up to. This next week should give me some time to catch up; I'll also be posting a travel diary of our trip. 

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Blessings :-)

Daily Inspiration

Photo a Day July 2, 3 and 4

I'm taking my photos for July, just not having the time to post them lately.

The topic for July 2 is (was) Busy.

The movie theater on dollar movie days is very busy. This was the line an hour before the movie started.

The topic for July 3 is (was) Best Part of the Day.

I'm not a morning person, so this isn't very early in the day, but the best part of the day is first thing. I can read the paper and drink my coffee, have my conversations with God and plan my day.

The topic for July 4 is Fun.

Making holiday goodies is fun. These are little flag cakes I made for today's barbecue.

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Blessings :-)

Two Tuesday and WIP Wednesday

First of all....

I hope you have a blessed, safe holiday today :-)

Welcome to my new followers! I hope you're enjoying my little blog. With Texas trip preparations in full swing, I'm combining a few days' posts here. I need to figure out how to do the autopost thing.

Two Things I'm Grateful For:

1.) My new vacuum cleaner! I know; I'm weird. I get excited about a new appliance. But this is the first new vacuum we've bought in 12 years. I've been making do with old used models that have to be begged and coaxed to work every time I want to vacuum (and with my animals, that's a daily thing!).

2.)Yarn bargain! I found a lady in Orlando who used to crochet but gave it up (is that possible?!) and was selling all this yummy yarn for $25! There are 21 full skeins and 3 half skeins.

Two Patterns I Think are Cool

Cross Bookmark

Plush Monkey

WIP Wednesday

Not a lot going on crochet-wise, simply due to a lack of time. I'll make up for it on the 18 hour car trip!

Week 6 Granny Squares

Week 7 Granny Squares

I did get two rows of the yo yo blanket done; each row is 20 yo yos wide. I'm nowhere near done with the yo yos (I need 500 total, and I only have 130), but I wanted to try the connect method to see how it would look. I followed the directions in the pattern, but it was a little tricky if you don't know the flat braid joining method. If anyone is interested, I can do a picture by picture tutorial of joining them when I get back from Texas.

Scrap Jar Experiment Week 4

 Looking a lot fuller this week because I've been working on yo yos and granny squares.

Two Bits of Trivia

July 4 is National Country Music Day and Sidewalk Egg Frying Day

If the oceans were to gradually rise, Florida (350 feet above sea level at its highest point) would become the first U.S. state to be completely submerged underwater. (Doesn't that make me feel great?)

Daily Inspiration

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Blessings :-)

Photo of the Day July 1

Today's topic is Self Portrait.
I didn't like this one; I don't like the way I look in pictures.

Click on the Photo a Day Challenge button on the left to find out more about this month's challenge.

 Here's a recap of all the photos for the Photo a Day in June Challenge:

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Blessings :-)

Giveaway Take Two

Let's try this again.

And the winner is....

Becca of Rebecca's Knit Blog! Congratulations! You have until Friday, July 6, to contact me at bookworm187@earthlink.net with your mailing information.

Alesia, I'm sorry I had to redraw, but I didn't hear from you and have no way to get in touch with you. I hope everything is all right. 

Two Bits of Trivia

July 1 is Build a Scarecrow Day, Canada Day, Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, and International Joke Day
When the 1st day of the month falls on a Sunday, there will be a Friday the 13th in that month.

Daily Inspiration

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Blessings :-)

Yard Sale Fun

My friend, Kay, and I went yard saleing (is that a word?) today. We found out about 2 sales in Orlando that advertised yarn.

We found them! The first one had crochet thread; we got 45 spools (?) for $35; this is my half.

The next one had two bags of yarn, about 14 skeins plus a double ended crochet hook (does anyone know how to use one of those?). This is my half; we spent $18 for all of it.
After those two, we drove around for several more hours, stopping whenever we saw a sign. These are the rest of my yard sale treasures:

 

A shirt for Tim - 25 cents

 

Wii game - $5, a book for Hope - $1, a rose shaped candy dish - $1

two DVDs - $2 each, a DSI game for Hope - $10, a Bugs Bunny paper punch - $1

 

Bookshelf - $3, a Shark steam mop with 5 cleaning pads - $25

 

Box full of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock - $1

We had a great time! After getting home about 2:00, I cleaned the house a little, made dinner and am settling in for a nice relaxing evening. Hope is having fun playing her new games and Tim is making a floor for Sugar's kennel (he picked up a truckload of lumber at a yard sale for $50!). 

I hope your Saturday has been as enjoyable as ours :-)

Two Bits of Trivia

June 30 is Meteor Day

A former slave ship captain wrote the song Amazing Grace.

Daily Inspiration

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Blessings :-)

Photo a Day June 30

The last one for June! Today's topic is Friend.

This is my neighbor, Jenna. She's a terrific mom, sweet friend, and fun crochet buddy :-) Here she is sandwiched between her cat and her sister's cat. Bookends!

Click on the Photo a Day button on the left to get all the information on Photo a Day in July. If you decide to join me in this photo fun, let me know so I can check out your pictures.

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Blessings :-)