It's been a week or so since I have posted. It's been a hot week or so since I have posted! Today I think the temperature is supposed to reach about 102ºF here in my area of Kansas! I plan to have a quiet day at home since my other half has decided to go on an impromptu visit to Wichita our son & his gf. I decided that didn't sound like much fun in this heat, plus I am about 80% finished with the wedding afghan I am making for the August wedding, so I can use the time to work on that.
Today the US is celebrating Independence Day - the day our country declared it's official independence from the English. This day brings back many memories of camping trips with my family while growing up! Most of the ones for this holiday seem to center around driving to the campgrounds near Chapman, KS and camping on Chapman Creek. I know others had to use it or else it wouldn't have been as nice as it was, although it was nothing fancy - mostly just the grass kept mowed to a reasonable height. But I don't recall anyone else other than our family being there during the same time we were there. Daddy's brother H. would come & bring his family, Mama's sister F. would come with at least her daughter - I don't ever remember her dh joining us though. Mama's brother W. would also come with his family at times. I don't ever remember going to this campgrounds with any of Daddy's other brothers, but H. did bring the son of another brother with him the summer I was 14. That was the summer I had 2 male cousins trying to peek into the tent while I would change! But I don't think that trip was over July 4th. The trip I remember over the July 4th weekend was just our family of 6. We had fireworks to set off & it started raining on us as we were starting to set them off just before we were going to leave for home. One I remember for sure was a spinning thing that we nailed to the tree. We finally gave up & just left, hoping to get out to the blacktop before the road got impassable. We didn't make it! So we spent the night trying not to roll downhill in the camper, waiting on the storm to pass. The the next morning, Daddy left to find a farmer willing to bring his tractor our to pull us out of the ditch. Which he did & we were then on our way home!
My son was born June 30th, so he got to spend his 1st July 4th holiday at the community fireworks display when he was just a day out of the hospital! We didn't attempt to go inside the fairgrounds that year - just stayed in my parents car for it.
Speaking of my son, he just had his 30+ year birthday last Saturday. I had been trying to decide if he would want me to make him a cake, although I know in the past he has told me not to, when I got a phone call from his gf I. who wanted to arrange a surprise party for him after hours at her job, so I made the cake & she did everything else! With all the 100+ days, I liked the idea of ice cream, so used my ice cream cone pan to make the cake. Then at nearly the last minute someone decided the cake I was making might not be enough, so they had a boxing cake done for him too. There were about 20-30 people at his party for pizza, cake, etc.
I knew that Andrea at Bad Cat Designs would be starting her summer KAL (knit-a-long), but was not planning to join since I have so many items in the works still. But when she announced it, she said it would be an easy one that the pattern would be easily memorized, so I decided to join. I ordered yarn from Sheepy Time Knits in Ruby Slippers, I order ruby & champagne beads from Charlene's Beads, dug out my #3 ChiaoGoo needle & then it all arrived. When it did, I remembered that the last time I had to wind a skein of lace yarn into a ball, I had decided I was going to get a swift before I did it again! So off to eBay I went to look for one. I found 1 that wasn't too expensive & ordered it. It arrived yesterday, so I got busy & wound my yarn into a nice center pull ball. Now I am ready & waiting for the release of the charts, which should happen in about 11 days. In the meantime, I need to get this afghan done. And of course, since my dh will be going to the wedding & seeing his mother just before her 84th birthday, I am considering trying to whip out a pair of house socks for her. Our feet are nearly the same size & if I do it in Cascade Pacific worsted weight yarn, I should get them done. So tomorrow, I need to go to the yarn store to see what they have on hand!
Have fun & Happy Crafting until the next time!
Today the US is celebrating Independence Day - the day our country declared it's official independence from the English. This day brings back many memories of camping trips with my family while growing up! Most of the ones for this holiday seem to center around driving to the campgrounds near Chapman, KS and camping on Chapman Creek. I know others had to use it or else it wouldn't have been as nice as it was, although it was nothing fancy - mostly just the grass kept mowed to a reasonable height. But I don't recall anyone else other than our family being there during the same time we were there. Daddy's brother H. would come & bring his family, Mama's sister F. would come with at least her daughter - I don't ever remember her dh joining us though. Mama's brother W. would also come with his family at times. I don't ever remember going to this campgrounds with any of Daddy's other brothers, but H. did bring the son of another brother with him the summer I was 14. That was the summer I had 2 male cousins trying to peek into the tent while I would change! But I don't think that trip was over July 4th. The trip I remember over the July 4th weekend was just our family of 6. We had fireworks to set off & it started raining on us as we were starting to set them off just before we were going to leave for home. One I remember for sure was a spinning thing that we nailed to the tree. We finally gave up & just left, hoping to get out to the blacktop before the road got impassable. We didn't make it! So we spent the night trying not to roll downhill in the camper, waiting on the storm to pass. The the next morning, Daddy left to find a farmer willing to bring his tractor our to pull us out of the ditch. Which he did & we were then on our way home!
My son was born June 30th, so he got to spend his 1st July 4th holiday at the community fireworks display when he was just a day out of the hospital! We didn't attempt to go inside the fairgrounds that year - just stayed in my parents car for it.
Speaking of my son, he just had his 30+ year birthday last Saturday. I had been trying to decide if he would want me to make him a cake, although I know in the past he has told me not to, when I got a phone call from his gf I. who wanted to arrange a surprise party for him after hours at her job, so I made the cake & she did everything else! With all the 100+ days, I liked the idea of ice cream, so used my ice cream cone pan to make the cake. Then at nearly the last minute someone decided the cake I was making might not be enough, so they had a boxing cake done for him too. There were about 20-30 people at his party for pizza, cake, etc.
I knew that Andrea at Bad Cat Designs would be starting her summer KAL (knit-a-long), but was not planning to join since I have so many items in the works still. But when she announced it, she said it would be an easy one that the pattern would be easily memorized, so I decided to join. I ordered yarn from Sheepy Time Knits in Ruby Slippers, I order ruby & champagne beads from Charlene's Beads, dug out my #3 ChiaoGoo needle & then it all arrived. When it did, I remembered that the last time I had to wind a skein of lace yarn into a ball, I had decided I was going to get a swift before I did it again! So off to eBay I went to look for one. I found 1 that wasn't too expensive & ordered it. It arrived yesterday, so I got busy & wound my yarn into a nice center pull ball. Now I am ready & waiting for the release of the charts, which should happen in about 11 days. In the meantime, I need to get this afghan done. And of course, since my dh will be going to the wedding & seeing his mother just before her 84th birthday, I am considering trying to whip out a pair of house socks for her. Our feet are nearly the same size & if I do it in Cascade Pacific worsted weight yarn, I should get them done. So tomorrow, I need to go to the yarn store to see what they have on hand!
Have fun & Happy Crafting until the next time!
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