Baby Blue.....

.... has a new home!!!!!!

Goodbye, Baby Blue

I am going to miss you!

But your new owners will give you lots of attention,

and take you lots of places.

It's time to move on.

Thanks so much for the fun times we've had together.

and the times when I could hide in your smallness

feeling like I was wrapped in a cacoon

Sheltered from the hurt I had endured.

Just me, Baby Blue, and Izzy, too.

Visits

I went to go painting Sunday afternoon and on the spur of the moment, turned down the road to my uncle's house, wondering if I might set up and do a painting of his barn.  As I neared his place I saw a Suburban in his driveway, so I started slowly past wondering who he had for company. The license plate was from TN so I immediately knew it was my cousin and his wife. So I stopped to visit for a bit.

Monday my sister came from NY to visit for a few days. We went shopping yesterday, and shopped til we dropped, which really didn't take near as long as it used to years ago......  :) I have been trying to get my place more organized so that everything is in its own place. I got a couple little 3 drawer stack bins to use in my sewing room. Sis and I are getting all my sewing supplies and quilting material sorted out.

We also went to a couple cemeteries this afternoon and found our great-grandmother's and our grandmother's graves. We hadn't been there for many, many years, probably since we were kids. Then we went to the one where our parents are buried. Sure brings back memories, some that we had even forgotten. I have to say that I am glad for the childhood I had and how our parents taught us we had to work to make our lives count for something. We didn't have it easy but we had enough. And we were loved. I am also proud to say I have handed that work ethic down to my kids and I even see it in my grandchildren that that are graduated from school and have jobs. All of them are hard workers. I am so proud of them all.

My sister and I are taking a trip to Pittsburgh to see my son in the hospital tomorrow. I will only be making a couple more trips down because he gets released mid-September!! Yeah!!! I promised him I'd stop and get him a Sub*Way sub on the way down. But it was a toss-up for him between that and the stuffed peppers I made for supper tonight. But he knows he can get stuffed peppers another time, too!

Ya'll take care.

Getting Things Done...

Finally got all my bathroom closets arranged and stuff put away.... yes it has taken me this long. I also have my sewing room (almost) organized. Getting one room done leads to another being able to be organized. The shelfs I was using until I got my dresser painted is now available for use in the sewing room. and since I moved stuff out of there I can get my quilting material out on the shelves, .... and maybe finish the border on my grandmother's Flower Garden quilt!!!!

I have also been taking things out to the RV to get loaded up and ready to go. I have been mapping my route I'd like to take up to Maine, and the stops I want to make along the way. Everything depends on what all happens here though, and I have been wondering whether I will be able to take off soon enough to see the changing of the leaves in the far northeast.

I rolled up my garden hoses today and got the yard mowed. I do have some yard work I will do if I get stuck here, but thats just the alternate plan; more birdhouses up, a couple more garden beds for next year, and re-doing some flower beds.

I've  completed another painting. (It's on my other blog,  Sunny's Studio) and am working on a couple more. I will also be giving my first painting lesson this Saturday. I will have a painting buddy.... Yeah!

One of my neighbors knits a lot of baby sweaters, and knows of a couple more gals who would be interested in getting together twice a month for a "Knit Night" at one of our homes, another back-up plan so if I am stuck here for the winter, I'll still have plenty to do! Or at least I will take part when I am here.

My cousins and I took a trip to the large Crawford County Fair this week. We had a grand time looking at all the displays in the home buildings, arts, crafts, garden produce, honey displays, ooooh, luscious stuff all!! I got my usual hot sausage sandwich with green peppers and onions, and later an ice cream cone to cool off my burning mouth and stomach. Well..... that was the excuse I used anyway :) My cousins had eaten before we left so they just got some french fries and had an ice cream cone with me. I only took a couple pictures in the farm show building with my 3G phone, nothing really to post. We did see lots of animals too, but really weren't interested in visiting the barns. I think we had all had enough of that growing up and in our later years.

Well this post is long enough, so you all take care and remember how blessed we all are! I know I am!!

Update on my son .... and Spam

Sorry to have to do this, but I have had to start comment moderation again due to some "spam" I've recieved lately. However, no "word verification" needed.
That stuff is a mess :-/

Update on my son, as some of you have asked. I was able to visit him most of yesterday. he is wheeling around in a wheelchair to and from therapy, and had some feeling in his foot yesterday also. We are hopeful that this is the beginning of him getting his feeling back in his lower chest on down to the tips of his big toe!! His logging and trucking crew was there to visit him on Sunday afternoon, and very encouraging to him. He told me how blessed he was to experience the feeling on his foot. He has always been a hard worker and now that he is pretty much out of danger, he is looking forward to going forward. He still has 2 weeks of antibiotics for the staph infection, but doing very well. The blood loss has stopped and he has needed no more blood since a week ago.

Thanks so much for all your kind thoughts and prayers! And most of all, thanking the Lord for His mercy and love toward us.

My Latest (finished) Project

As My home in PA is much smaller than where I lived in Kentucky, I have been having to swap out larger furniture for some smaller pieces. I am not real fond of putting alot on $$'s into furniture at my age, and going for a "cottage" look, I came across an ad in craigs*list that was a used furniture barn. These are the pieces I came away with.

This old dark green dresser fit the bill for me. In fact it was a perfect twin of one my parents had when I was growing up. It is very sturdy and all the drawers worked. A little paint and it wou;d be like new!

I also found this little night stand someone had put a gray-green coat of paint on. It also was sturdy and 3" narrower than the one I had been using (which made it nearly impossible to make the bed properly). The 2 little drawers would work just fine.

AND

This little piece I had picked up an antique place several yrs ago in KY and had painted it white but never had found the perfect place for it there, so it came with me during the move.

I plan on finding an oval mirror, attaching it to the inside, and then painting a vining flower on the louvered doors.

So ...... This is my "NEW" bedroom furniture.



...... and the dresser topped with a scarf I had made from women's hankerchiefs.

Estimated cost for all ...... $140.

On to the next unfinished project, although I am not sure which one. I won't be going anywhere in my new RV yet. Still waiting to see what happens with my son. Oh Yes, my gypsy heart is to wander, but the biggest part of my heart belongs to my family for this present time.

You all be safe out there and be thankful for each and every blessing life brings your way.

"Lady Blue" is titled, licensed, and inspected. "Baby Blue" is advertised in RV Trader, looking for a new home. She will be going to a local carlot of a friend next week which has alot of traffic passing by.

 I still need to move some things out of the small one and into the new one this week-end. I won't be going anywhere until my son is doing better. However did get a call from his wife earlier today he is being moved to Mercy hospital to begin phys therapy. Yeah! out of ICU!

Other than that I am canning some Red Haven peaches in pint jars. Just getting a half-bushel at a time. Love peaches and cottage cheese, peach up-side-down cake, peaches n' vanilla ice cream .......

My little garden has been producing also. So far I have half-pint of those little grape tomatoes, one Roma tomato, 2 yellow and 2 zucchini squash, and my Roma bush bean plants have beans on them! The onions are getting large, and I have swiss chard and beets coming along. My lettuce didn't do so well. I may plant some in the fall depending on if I am here or not.

Hope you all are enjoying the summer out there and being safe.