A Cool Day & and a Very Old Project

   Good morning Saturday & Weekend

So nice to have a cool day, no bright sun and so far no humidity. We did get a bit of rain early this morning and last night. Happy first day of August!!

  I have enjoyed seeing lots and lots of hummingbirds buzzing around the feeders I have out. I so enjoy them, and I still see orioles once in awhile too-they are mostly on the insect diet now.

  I had a taste for some home baked cookies so I decided on peanut butter cookies. A childhood favorite I only use an all natural peanut butter not the ones like Skippy etc-after checking those ingredients years ago. Looking for a small batch recipe they said an all natural peanut butter would not work in most recipes-come out too crumbly and softer. so I found a recipe online using natural peanut butter, and then I also changed to gluten free flour, and no sugar options. These baked up pretty good-a softer cookie but not falling apart so happy with the results.

I was not in the mood for one of my slow stitch projects for some reason this morning, and then I remembered I had a rug hooking project waiting to get completed. I can't remember when I first started this-it has been many years for sure. 

My Mom was a rug hooker back when I was growing up in the '50's and '60's. She made amazing items. Hooked seats for the formal dining room chairs (does anyone even have a formal dining room any more??), many rugs and also a long staircase with two landings with rugs to get to the bedrooms. My brother got most of her pieces-sigh

I wanted to make at least one hooked piece, as I had inherited her rug strip cutter and hooks. I had found another rug cutter at a garage sale-cheap they didn't know what they had, so at the time I bought different sizes of the discs for cutting. Mom's were totally worn out.

I had gotten frustrated with this project because I had put in too many loops so quite tight-hoping it will steam out a bit when finished. There is only the border to finish, and then decide how I want to use this piece. If it doesn't steam out flat will make into a pillow.

The wool is all from recycled wool-from 100% wool clothes found at consignment shops and garage sales. I remember going with Mom to Goodwill stores looking for 100% wool and then watching her dying all of her colors.

  My Mom only hooked with very very narrow strips-now most seem to hook with 1/4" wide strips. I had cut these the 1/4"

Enjoy your day

Good Morning Thursday

   I visited a few blogs this morning-but sadly could not leave a comment-Again. Just don't understand why I continue to get failed to publish.  and I just tried commenting back to your comments here-ugh failed to publish   thank you for visiting and commenting

  This morning is the first in many many days that we don't have high humidity along with the hot temperatures. I have close to a dozen hummingbirds now that are very hungry by dawn. So, I was surprised the high humidity was absent this morning-early.

 I now have hospice set up at home to help us-Larry's two nurses are amazing-so am thankful.

The other day I grabbed my basket with the civil war era  meditative scroll to begin stitching. Many lay out this project as they go but I set up a couple-ready to stitch. Decided it would be easier for me to stitch across the short end-and then I may go back and stitch across the length-that would secure all the fabrics down better. I had shared photos on Instagram yesterday.

 One of my slow mail friends-who sends me surprises through out the year-sent me an appliqued bird-that I love. Looking at it again-thinking this looks like the same width as my scroll-and it was-So I will be sewing it to the end of the scroll once I am finished.  I have been thinking that I may sew a blanket stitch around the edges for a nice finish.   photos will enlarge-just click on them

 Enjoy your day

Extreme Hot Summer Continues & This and That & About Pirate Ship

   We did get one day of relief from the extreme heat here but we are back to high 90's with humidity.

  Most of the orioles are back on their insects diet so I see just a few at the feeders now. I so enjoyed watching them all summer and then seeing the youngsters as well.  We have more hummingbirds now too. I am back to taking the feeders down just before dark as a racoon or something is knocking them down now.

It's been a rough week as care giver but we talked it over and I am getting help from home health. Using the same service as before when husband first came home from the hospital almost 3 years ago now. 

I am working on controlling emotions and sadness but I will stay strong-as needed. I am at the time realizing I need help and can't continue alone Lack of sleep does not help me either. I did go sound asleep and woke up around 3 am-caught up on emails and then finished up a puzzle on Jigsaw Planet. Around 4 am Larry needed help-now to get my emotions back in check, drink a stress relief herbal tea-and lay back down for a bit.

  My right leg finally feels a bit better today. My knee was swollen and in pain from working on the hill in hot sun trimming the bushes. Then a couple days ago I got bit by something-perhaps a spider-had two marks together on my foot-which swelled up a lot. Online said to take an antistamine . I use Alavert now I can no longer take Benydril as it makes me very "high"  I can not take much in medicine, even asprin makes me nauseated so I use the herb white willow bark instead.

  went to the large Amish food store with our friends a few days ago and got some delicious huge cantaloupe that the Amish grow and sell. They also had some really nice fresh peaches so I bought enough to freeze-ended up with 12 half pints. Got the last of their fresh blueberries too. It is about an hour drive from where I live so I enjoyed getting out of the house and going along with my nearby neighbors. They go there quite often-so when they went again yesterday they picked up two more melons. I will freeze some of the melon this time. It is about the only thing Larry wants to eat now. No more blueberries though, I wish I would have bought more.

  The other day comments were working for me so will see what happens.  I am almost finished stitching the third slow stitch bag. and then can work on assembling this one and mailing it off.  Thinking I will take a break from the bags and stitch to one of  my meditative scrolls that I have set up to stitch.

  Happy new week

  Oh and when comments were not working for me during the time of the pirate ship post-I wanted to answer comments about that-We see this pirate ship go up and back since we moved here-Only runs during the summer months. I was thinking this was a tourist ship-I found information about it here and about their restaurant connected with the ship here

Monday morning update: I can comment back here this morning-but visiting blogs-some post some not-it is what it is

  

Taking a Break

   Good morning, comments worked for about 4 or 5 comments and then it stopped again. Still this morning-comments not working

  I have heard it said that God does not give you more than you can handle-but I am full stress mode.

Yesterday morning I had an errand I had to do-unlock  my car and the whole review mirror is hanging and looks like it totally came apart-it is illegal to drive without one, so I  called my neighbor down the lake a bit for help.

Husband getting much worse, the doctor we like came out last week-early as he was scheduled for this week-recommend some things-him and nurse left the office for  the rest of the week-nurse still out this week-someone dropped the ball and did not order his new medicine-for pain-or home health help.

I was on the phone Friday no one stepped up, called yesterday still nothing done, doctor to be in office this morning-I will be on the phone when they open today.

We were up most of the night last night-I was changing sheets constantly. My husband has suffered soooo much,

So of course I am zombie today.

Since I can't interact with you do to "comments failed to publish" I am taking a blog break. You are welcome to connect with me through my email form on my side bar.

  We are in extreme heat and humidity still as well  It is summer but this has been very extreme

Wow Comments Posting & Pirate Ship

   After several days of trying-I figured I would see if I could comment back to a few of yours tonight. Surprise a few posted.

  We'll see how long this lasts haha

It is just a bit before dark now and looking out at the lake-the pirate ship is coming through. This is for the tourists here

Well the comments only worked for a handful of comments-figures

  

Hot Hot and Hotter & Emails In Place of Comments?

 We continue with the very hot and humid weather-as a lot of you are experiencing as well. Thankfully we are not also dealing with that fire smoke that many of you are.

  Starting today, we have three days of close to 100 degrees with high humidity. Early this morning I hand watered the garden flowers. Hopefully the grass will stop growing soon. smiles.

  I am soooo frustrated with google and commenting. It has been several days now. I can usually comment to other countries though. also this usually does not last this long as in the evenings I was able to leave comments.

  I have changed up the comment settings a couple of times but no results. One thing I read was my computer security could be an issue-well I am not turning that off. Google is just not maintaining their site any more which I had read when I was trying to get a new blog to work.

  Well at least I can read your blogs and read your comments here. So know I am trying to interact with friends 

“When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.” - Snoopy

Updates:

One of my friends commented about using email to stay in touch since I can not comment-it is really worse this time. I have a form here on my page where you can contact me and include your email if you are interested in communication that way. thanks all

I really enjoyed the FIFA games-watched quite a few of them-enjoyed tonight's game and was cheering on Spain-better sportsmanship on that team.

Can not Comment Again-Update I Still Can Not Comment

 Good morning, My blog has been working pretty well for the most part-now I am back to "failed to publish"

    I can sometimes comment on your blog posts or not. Most of yesterday could not comment, and this morning the same-very frustrating.  I just ran one of those scans for computers which I thought could help out, even restarted the computer-Nope  Google is back to not letting me comment. 

  So I am visiting but mostly can not comment on your blogs and most of the time not on mine. Sometimes comments will work during the evening better but no.

  Oh well