Tuesday ramblings

Well, I found out from another family member that G. must have taken his pain meds slept right on through his plans to visit us, not waking up until yesterday.  I can't imagine doing that!  The closest I can come to it was once when I was working in a nursing home near me & worked something like 12 days straight in the summer when I was already mostly napping all day so that I could also take my 3 kids to their summer activities.  When I got a day off, I slept something like 21 out of 24 hours!

After my nap yesterday the issues with my left arm cleared up.  I still have no idea why it was aching, but it did stop.  Which I was glad of.

I feel like I am being slow in my knitting this week, but then I stop & think - I have 3 active projects I am working on!  I did finish except for weaving in the ends the 1st sock of 2 different pairs of baby socks.  I had never made baby socks before, so was not sure how much yarn would actually be needed.  I still don't, but I have cast on for the 2nd sock of each.  And I crocheted several rounds on the 1st of 2 more baby afghans.  With just another 4 rows, I will have the wedding afghan 1/4 the way done.  I still am not fond of the yarn I am using, but it is what I have.  I have had so much trouble with it splitting & then me not finding it until the next row.

Through a conversation with D. I found out that I. was able to sell her old car recently for a price that I believe she is happy with.  So now she is ready to see about buying a different car, although I know it will be different than what she was actually looking at a couple months back with him.  I know D. will feel a bit better about it since he was worried about how old her car was.


I'm waiting on a call back from the dog groomer.  I would like to get my 2 poms in for a summer haircut before we head out to a family reunion on June 1st.  Not sure how I feel about an out of state trip starting on June 1st though.  My step-dad passed away 26 years ago on June 1st, which was a Sunday that year & the last time I had seen him had been the previous Monday - Memorial Day.  I always get a bit emotional that particular week!  But the good part is that we would start off driving to 1 of his 2 remaining sisters homes.  Don't know if we will see both of his sisters or not though.  It's not really our family's reunion, but these 2 sisters both married a James brother, who are distantly related to the outlaws - Frank & Jesse James.  I felt a little odd about even thinking of going, even though I had been invited many times by my 1 uncle, but when I talked to him a bit about that he told me that even though I wasn't a James, I was related by marriage to many who were!  The pictures are from a visit I had with these aunts, uncle & cousins a couple months back at my cousin P. home.

I finally picked up a frame to use for the grandkids school pictures.  I had seen 1 that I liked at Hobby Lobby, but they wanted $30 for it & that's a bit much for me at the moment.  So instead I found a frame that is about 16 x 20 that I can insert other pictures into as well as it's divided into multiple spaces.  Now to get either snapshots of the other 2 granddaughters or see about getting some portraits of them since it seems their mom doesn't buy the school pictures & dad doesn't either.  Not sure, but I think he could if he contacted the group that does them.  But that's not my call, so I will stay out of it.  I just want pictures!


Have fun & Happy Crafting until the next time!