Yard Update

This first one is from Tuesday when the job was started.

These are all today.  Tomorrow more work will be done.  Last night we had a bad wind storm blow through and now fine dirt is every where.  My house is one big dirt pile at the moment.  I do think the creative stacking of the old paving stones is kind of cool and might actually stay there unless I find something else to do with them.  Lost my garden spot in the corner of the back yard but also lost all the landscaping rock that the previous owner had put down every where.  I am so happy to be loosing the rock!  Trying to get the weeds out of it was awful.  Might have some stitching pictures to share tomorrow if I actually sit and stitch.  Was bored today and entertained myself by cooking lots of things.  Better go get the chicken off the grill.

Sprinkler Guy

Well, not much happening in my neck of the woods.  Still waiting for the sprinkler guy to come and put in the new system and do the grading to remove all weeds. 

Hard to believe I had grass but then the gopher came and the spinkler system broke.  So now I am starting over on the yard.  Just waiting impatiently for the sprinkler guy.  Usually there are Black Angus cows roaming in that field you see. 

On the stitching front, I don't feel like I made much progress.  Here is the geese.

Will work some more on this one tonight.  I did pull this lady out this week and work on her a bit.

Think I started her in 2009.  Found I did a lot of starting that year but not sure why.  Must have had startitis very bad.  I have been struggling with it since last weekend but have been saved from starting anything new just from the fact that I can't decide what to start.  Silly I know!

I did finish knitting a top from the spring Debbie Bliss magazine.  It is being blocked today and then has to have the finishing work done.  Also worked on a crocheted tunic I started in 2009 only to find I had crocheted an extra two inches and had to rip back.  Then I was working on a cabled cardigan out of a Vogue mag. and found that the bind off had switched on me and now have ten rows of cable to rip back.  Probable why I haven't felt like I have gotten much done lately.  Every thing I have worked on has had to be ripped out again.  Oh well.  This phase will pass.  Soon I hope. :)  Two more weeks till vacation.  I know I really need it this year.

Happy Stitching!

This and That

Well I have been working on this and that lately.  Everything I work on seems to need to be tweeked or reworked in some manner.  The blouse I was working on ended up with the sleeves being 1 1/2" to short.  Need to rework the whole thing.  But have an idea on how to fix it so that will be something finished soon. 

I did finish this one.  :)

Which I decided to make into a wall hanging. 

Here are a couple of things I am working on.  This one is so old, I lost the picture to it.

This one my mom found at a garage sale and gave to me.  Not sure why it appeals to me right now.

Life has been a bit up in the air these days but soo looking forward to my vacation in three weeks.  Thinking I might get the bathroom painted and maybe some of the garage.  Waiting on sprinklers so might be moving my garden into the ground around that time also.  Right now everything is in pots in the front.  Thinking about making some new curtains for the kitchen also.  I could go on but the list is so long. lol 

Happy stitching!