Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I am thankful.
It is cold outside but we are warm inside.
I'm wanting something good to eat this morning and I have plenty of good things to choose from. Can even go out and buy some breakfast if I wanted to.
There is God's peace in my home.
My husband takes me out on Friday evenings and gets me a good dinner.
My heart is overwhelming with love.
God, I thank you.
I am blessed.
There are coyotes out at 4 a.m., so no walks. 🦊🦊🦊
You stay home too, ok?
Unless you are going out for a slab....
People are starting to go toilet paper crazy here again. Ye gads!
Keep up the eye drops! Good on you! 🦙️🦙️🦙️
👁 Do you put the drops in only the one right eye, or both? 👀
My husband says it best. "Every day is a GOOD day."
I can not complain. I'm blessed.
: )
I wonder "if you used to be able to read without glasses," then why did get you, I presume, cataract surgeries?
Typo, should read My husband, two daughters and I went to midnight Mass at St. Louis Cathedral.
My mother was christened at St. Louis Cathedral. My grandparents lived in the French Quarter for awhile. Mom was born in 1925 in their home with a midwife.
It is a beautiful cathedral. The midnight Mass at the cathedral for Christmas is simply beautiful.
The choir is magnificent. Baby Jesus is placed in the nativity setting at midnight.
As you know, my youngest daughter moved to Denver. She was still living here at Christmas. Christmas Eve we went out for dinner, then went to see the incredible decorations at the Roosevelt Hotel and then my husband and daughters went to midnight Mass. Ahhh, pre Covid days.
I bet your embroidery of the cathedral is beautiful!
So I used the photos and a NOLA placemat I bought for an embroidery design. B/c I wanted a real picture and not an outline, I used crewel embroidery, with crewel thread.
It took quite a while, but I was pleased with the results except that the spire for some reason wouldn't stand straight. I redid the embroidery, but still couldn't get it straight . So I considered that to be the one flaw that some needleworkers consider de tour for certain projects.
I had my eyes done this year and I still can't get use to my "new eyesight". I use to be able to read without glasses my whole life, had glasses only for driving. After surgery it is the opposite. I know it is probably too soon after your surgery to give your relation to how the vision feels now.
The cushion with the right fabric to cover it.
For over 9 months.
Instead of waiting longer, thinking I will sew it by hand.
I have enough free time, I will just do it!
Procrastination hurts.
I have seen other really good and helpful long time posters try to turn the conversations to a lighter subject.
It has me thinking...and looking up things like:
"Can venting too much be harmful rather than helpful?"
(Online Psych Central articles.)
Please do not stop venting or asking for needed help! Can we lighten up a bit?
Maybe check ourselves before we go off topic and attack our fellow caregivers?
Declare a truce (or Pax) sooner before dividing opinions become offensive?
Practice some social restraint, while maintaining your perceived rights?
Thanksgiving will have us being grateful to be alive, focus on being grateful instead of what you might be missing. imo.
I am so thankful to be able to know each and every one of you!
I sewed for my girls too. I’ve also made pillows, curtains, etc.
I have not done embroidery. I love it though. It’s so pretty.
This is 2020, folks! I am so looking forward to 2021!
Okay, if that isn’t depressing enough, it pales to compare with the recent news that more than 82,000 Boy Scouts have filled molestation lawsuits! That is more than boys molested in the Catholic Church.
I grew up Catholic but I feel any priests or any scout leader should go to jail for these heinous crimes.
The predators are very sick and twisted individuals and I personally don’t think that they can be rehabilitated.
I am all for rehabilitating people when it is possible. Statistics show that it isn’t possible for them to be rehabilitated.
These numbers are sickening but honestly, one child is too many!
Okay, thanks anyway.
I love a bargain. Who doesn’t like to save money, right?
Embroidery is so pretty. My sweet MIL loved cross-stitching. My favorite thing she made was a Christmas stocking for my oldest daughter. It’s so beautiful!
She also made a bib for her but I always thought it was too pretty to use! I have it folded up in a drawer.
What projects have you done? My neighbor has gorgeous pillows that she made with crewel embroidery! She has four of them and they are lovely.
Did you have your eye surgery? How are you doing?
I have a question for you about fabric, if you don’t mind.
I buy fabric by the yard. Habit, I guess. I did buy remnants in the sales bin because they were great prices!
What do you think of fat quarters and these other ‘already’ cut fabrics? Do they end up costing more than by the yard?
Plus I am the type of person who always bought a little extra because fabric is never cut perfectly straight and I never wanted to run short of fabric for my project.
Remember tatting? My great aunts did that. It’s really beautiful!
My daddy had two quilts that his mom made. I was hoping to own them.
Daddy grew up in a rural area of Florida. The women from church got together to quilt.
They were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. I wanted to own to quilts one day.
I never knew my father’s mom. She died before daddy married mom. Daddy said I looked like her. I have her blue eyes. She was Scottish and Irish.
Daddy was born in 1917. His mom made those quilts when he was a young boy. So maybe they would be considered antiques. Do you have antique quilts?
I have a gorgeous crochet tablecloth on my table from my husband’s grandmother.
I have dollies too. Yes, fancy pillow cases too. I also have old pattern books, needles, etc.
I have my grandma’s (mom’s mom) sewing machine that she gave me years ago. Guess where she bought it? A door to door salesman!
I bought a new machine years later but I did use it at one time. It had the knee pedal that she converted to the floor pedal.
Funny how things have changed, right?
Only kidding. 78 and I am downsizing to save my poor daughter angst.
Just today shook out my old wool pendletons (they add cottons and other trash now and they PILL). So beautiful. I can't use them. I just don't have the room. I then aired and rolled and put up on my ONLY closet shelf. Keep thinking I want to give to someone who will use them. It is such a waste to have them sitting hidden.
Do any of you watch Marie Kondo on Netflix, the tiny woman who talks in the tiny high voice and helps people downsize. Americans are DROWNING in STUFF.
The nurse just told my husband that ‘our germs’ in our house were okay. It’s the germs from outsiders that are not good for him right now during his cancer treatments so we are being careful.
I was telling his nurse that I always liked how Asians took off their shoes before entering their home.
She said that she does remove her shoes before entering her home, because when shoes are tested they are truly filthy. This is why they sterilize their shoes in hospitals.
The studying of germs is fascinating!
In any case, our guts alone harbor happy organisms living in perfect harmony. Until something goes wrong. An E Coli goes into a bladder and there is our UTI. Or we take antibiotics and it kills the BAD stuff but the GOOD stuff as well, and now we have fungus. And some people get overprolifferation of C-Difficile that literally KILLS them, while their original infection is cured.
Germ theory is AMAZING, and one of the reasons I cannot HATE Covid-19 is that I literally do see it as a fascinating living creature, adapting, wanting only to live and breed. They aren't so very different from us.