I finally figured out after all this time what I was doing wrong in uploading my photos to Blogger, by sitting down and really looking through it! The photos above are of a pumpkin patch we took our oldest grandson, X, to go see a couple of weekends ago in Flower Mound, TX. The bottom photo is a shot of X on his 9th birthday yesterday. We had a quick cake and candles ceremony, opening of presents, then X, his Dad and his Dad's gf were off to "The Cutting Edge" haunted house here in Ft. Worth. They told me they had a great "scary" time!

Freebie

Dh and I went to Garage sales on Saturday morning and found a wonderful deal! Our son has recently moved and has been needing a stove. We stopped at one sale and right next door in the driveway was a nice new looking electric stove that had a sign on it reading "free, works fine!" We went to look at it and the man who lived in the house came out and told us they had simply gotten a new stove and if we would carry it off it was ours! We took it to our son's house, plugged it in and it works GREAT! I love finding deals like that! I know I have been bad about not putting photos up lately, but I will try to get a photo of the stove up soon, along with my ball band knitting. My knitting has stalled out, but I really do hope to get going on it again this week. Last week was very stressful at work, but I am hoping the coming week will smooth back out for me.

Miscellaneous - Life

I had my 50th birthday last weekend, it was a quiet and peaceful day at home. I don't seem to get many of those anymore, so I really enjoyed it! My 8 yr old Grandson stays with us a few nights each week and he is a little fireball, always into something! :) I have been reading a lot again lately, and watching old movies. Last night my Grandson picked "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad". It was really fun to see it again!! Of course, first I made sure I watched the season premier of "NCIS". I also watched the premier of "NCIS Los Angeles", but don't feel this show will make it. The acting and plot was mediocre at best. Not even a patch on the original "NCIS", and I couldn't even make myself watch "The Good Wife". I'm not interested much in that kind of show. I'm looking forward to seeing the premiers of "CSI" and the "Mentalist" on Thursday.

This morning I decided to get some knitting mojo back, and started a new ballband dishcloth!! I am using some warm brown Sugar n Cream yarn, my contrast color is Chocolate Ombre Sugar n Cream Naturals. Photos soon!

Sew-a-long

I was looking at Stardustshoe's blog, and she is hosting a "pants-a-long" to make some shorts/pants. I'm interested in sewing along with her, as I haven't sewn anything in quite awhile. I have boxes of material from my days of working at JoAnn fabrics that DH would love for me to use up and "de-stash"!! :) I finally got a new memory card for my camera, but am still having trouble with uploading the photos to Blogger. Now I have to put them on Flickr first and it is irritating me to have to do it "the long, hard way". Waaaaaaaah! :)

On the crochet front, I have been working on a "Hello Kitty" purse for my friend's daughter. I have both sides done, just need to put together and finish up.

Cin/Cyn Summer Cloth Crawl

I have been participating in a cloth crawl with my "Cindy Knitters" group on Ravelry. One box is reused and travels from location to location with gifts for each Cindy participant. After much anticipation on my part, the box arrived in Texas today with all the goodies in the photo. The cloths are knitted with 100% linen yarn, I was also spoiled with a skein of Berroco Cotton Twist, Skittles, and a packet of seeds from Jefferson's "Monticello"! Many thanks to my gifting "Angel"- Cindy, aka CPL Rockfish! Also travelling to each location with the box is a map to mark our locations on, and a small notebook to write a note in. Thanks for all the fun so far, Cindy's!

Chickenbetty's Disc-Disc Potholder

I am still having problems loading my photos and even TAKING photos, but managed to take a picture of my newest potholder with my cell phone camera this morning! These pictures aren't good quality, but at least you can see what I have worked on. I found this pattern on Ravelry the other night. I ordered it from ChickenBetty, but it didn't get e-mailed to me till the next day, so I looked at photos and copied it as best I could. By the time the pattern came, I already had the flower side done, so I just followed the pattern for the second side. One person on Ravelry mentioned that she nearly burned herself using it as a potholder, so I inserted hot pad material from the fabric store in between the crocheted discs. It is a little thick, but at least no one should get burned using it. I have also crocheted a couple of other things, but I'm not quite done with them yet. Two are potholders also, and one is a washcloth. Hope to have my camera up and running soon so the photo quality will be better!

July 4, ribbons and bows

I am still having problems with my uploading of photos to blogger from my home computer, and now my digital camera seems to be on the fritz, too. July 4 weekend we went out on the lake in the boat, it was very quiet for a holiday! I think the public ramps haven't been open much this year, so only lake residents have been out and a lot of the residents are older in age (I guess this may be due to the lake being here for a long time). After going out on the lake for a couple of hours, we went to our niece's house and my oldest gs got to pop firecrackers with her children. I have been crocheting small items such as dishcloths, & potholders, but can't seem to get the photos to my blog. Oldest gs and son will be gone this weekend, so I might have more time to concentrate on figuring out the problem. I also have some beautiful hair bows I wanted to take photos of and show. My co-worker makes them to sell, and I bought some for my oldest gs' baby sister and also for my sister's granddaughter who is 3.