Three Day Vacation.......

No.I'm not going anywhere. The vacation part is no cooking and very little cleaning. Walter is playing golf the next three days and when he does that, he usually likes to bring home take out. Who am I to argue?

So this morning, what did I do? I spent a couple of hours in the back yard raking and pruning. We have a small yard, but sometimes it gets to looking like a jungle. I have a plot that is about six by nine feet that is sectioned off to feed the birds and squirrels. That had to be cleaned and some bushes had to be trimmed so that I could get to the hose. What vacation?

Rewind. Start again. Vacation. I decided to sit and do needlework for a while........Guess who showed up to help? Tessie announced that she didn't like the afghan in her cottage since it was a "hand me down" and not made specifically for her. "Teach me to crochet and I'll do it myself.".......Need I say that this was not the best idea in the world? In the first place, the hook on a #14 is small enough for her to handle, but the handle is about as tall as she is. I will give her credit. She got about 10 chains done before she gave that up as a lost cause. All the while "Spike the Stoic" stood by watching.

She was sitting in one of my embroidery boxes to work on the crocheting. She noticed that she was surrounded by all kinds of pretty colors and she was perched on a pile of hardanger fabric. One of the pieces was a rug that I started a couple of days ago. No pattern. Just the rug. She started working on that. All the while she whined and moaned about the canvas being soooooo heavy and the needle was tooooo big.

That gave me an idea. I have been working on some fancy towel sets. It stood to reason that she could handle those.

I threaded a #12 between needle. They are the smallest, shortest needles that I have. She settled down on one of my largest thread spools and put her feet up on a smaller one. Then she shouted at me for not moving a "seat" for Spike.

She really does catch onto new things quickly when she wants to. The last time I saw her she was humming to herself and happily stitching. She has almost finished the first towel. Maybe she has found her niche......Well at least for the next 20 minutes.... I am going to go try to get something done before she switches gears.

See you tomorrow.