Say Hi to me

Just a short post.........no pictures!
I am going to Linda Miller's open house tomorrow (Friday 4/20).
If anyone reading this is going also please stop and say Hi if you recognise.
I hope to have some good pictures to post when I get home.

Linda

Finally a finish

Thanks to all of you who commented on my last post.  I really debated whether or not to post about my illness but now I am glad that it is done.

Jan if you are reading this thanks for telling me about being a 20 year survivor.
Ovarian cancer is just not spoken about very often.  We need to change that.


Well here is where I left off with my  rug in September. I just drew a pumpkin on linen and began.

It took me till just a couple weeks ago to pick up the hook again.

I wanted to be ahead for next Fall!

Here is the finished rug except for the binding.  Oh, did I tell you,                
I don't think I am crazy about binding. 
Gee, that is hard on your fingers.

I started on a pattern from Buttermilk
Basin called Saltbox Row.

Thanks for stopping by, will see you again soon.

Linda

My life has taken a new path temporarily

This is the jewelry that I am sporting these days. Since I last posted about not feeling well I had emergency  surgery in October for a ruptured colon due to diverticulitis which also gave me a colostomy.
This teal ribbon however represents Ovarian Cancer. A couple days after surgery I found that the path report showed that hiding there behind my abscessed colon was this awful disease. 
I don't want to bore you with all of the details but after a short recuperation I began Chemo in November.  I have had 3 treatments at 3 week intervals and now am awaiting another surgery in February to reconnect my colon and have a hysterectomy. This is all backwards but what the two surgeons felt was the best way to go.  After that I will resume Chemo.
Many of you already know of most of this and I so appreciate all of your good wishes and prayers.

I have been wanting to resume blogging for some time but I just felt I needed to put all of this out there first.
I was losing my hair starting 2 weeks after my first treatment but now it has tapered off.  I cut it short and sometimes can get buy without wearing a hat.  Not when it is freezing out though! I am going to see about a wig soon.
 
My main problem I am dealing with as a side effect is the neuropathy in my hands and feet.  The tingling in my fingers makes it hard to feel the keys on the keyboard, pick up a needle or even hold the  hook to pull loops.  But I have been back to hooking lately.  I will post pic of what I have done soon.

Thanks to all of you bloggers who have been posting so regularly, I don't always comment but oh do I enjoy reading all that you show and tell!

I will see you soon.
Linda

I have been side lined this week

Just when I was getting the hang of my new "toy"  I missed the whole last week of September in bed sick!
Still working on filling some photos in my albums. I just finished this Sunflower one from Needl' Love.   I think I was standing on one foot on a slope when I took this........the rug really does look straight in person!
I need to get busy on some winter designs.
Hopefully  will be be back real soon.

Linda

This post has to be quick!

Oh, boy you should see me trying to manuever on my new lap top computer..........not pretty!      I am trying so hard to get used to doing this without a mouse.  Plus everything on this screen looks so different.
Yes, trying to learn some new tricks here. 

I don't even have any pictures loaded on here yet and I hate to post without them.

Going to Malabar Farm tomorrow for The Spirit of Friends Show.  I was there last year and loved it.
If any of you are going and you recognize me please say hello.

I will be back tomorrow, hopefully.

Linda

It's time for a new computer

So sad but true.........my old computer is dying.  I picked out a new one today.....a laptop and I should be able to pick it up tomorrow.   We recently changed our cable service and now have wireless so the timing was right.  I love downloading pictures and have just reached my limit on the old one.

I have been having trouble uploading them and that is my excuse for not posting in such a long time!
  I plan to pick my Bittersweet this week and then I can take some pics of my plain and simple Fall decorating.  I just tried to load a picture but it just wouldn't and I am too impatient to wait any longer.  
I will be back in few days with some Fall at my house and a couple of hooked rugs that I have finished.
Linda

My Sheep Hooked Rug is Done

Just a quick post to say that my very first hooked rug...........Lexington Proddy Sheep is finally done and hanging up!
I am officially "hooked" on rug hooking. I got the pattern and took the class for this rug from
Alice at her studio.
I have another one on my frame now plus I am binding a little mat sized one that I did with some scraps. Have a couple more planned to do........
see I told you I was "hooked"!



We are having a break in our weather today, only supposed to go to 88 degrees.
Will be back soon with some more photos.
Have a great day everyone.

Linda

Dog Days of Summer

Well, it has been here at our house. First, because of this week's awful heat and second because we have two of our Grand Dogs this week while their parents are vacationing.

Gracie and Summer







After playing in the yard for awhile they try to see who can be first inside to the air conditioning.















I know a lot of people are starting to wish for Summer to be over and for Fall to arrive but as hot as it is......NOT ME! We had such a cold long Winter this year that I am not ready for it again anytime soon. I love Fall but I know what comes after that!
When it is this hot I just stay put and stay in where it is cool. And I have been working on my rugs. I am putting on the binding on this rug right now.














Then I will finish this one. Pictures to follow when they are finished.
















Try and stay cool this week end.

Linda

We meet again.....Finally!

I don't know where the past months have gone but..................they have disappeared.
Since my last post I have had far too many Doctor visits and repair work done on this body.
No...not any face lifts or lipo.........just routine maintenance.
Are any of you due for a mammogram or Colonoscopy? If so, get them done!

Remember back in May when Linda and Audrey from APP traveled to Susie's Shop Bittersweet Treasures in Rochester NH and this was the prize for the winner of the drawing?

Well, I was the lucky winner and here is this fabulous bird house in my yard. Thanks again Susie for drawing my name.




And many thanks to Linda for wrapping it up so carefully and sending it to me.












I have always loved collecting little shoes and now my obsession is into garden shoes too.
I love planting old work boots..big or small. I even have some little Mary Janes with hens and chicks too.

















My new passion is rug hooking and I was able to go to the hook in at the Kingwood Center in Mansfield that so many other have blogged about. Soon I will post some pictures of my humble beginnings! Yes, Lauren and Alice....I really will!

Until then.........bye for now.

Linda

Spring is really almost here....................

It will be some time before my little Herb Garden is lush and full again but I know that it is coming
soon.

I have a busy week ahead with lots of appointments and a much needed new "hair-do" later on today. Will be back later in the week with some photos from around my nest.

Welcome to my new followers.............I will try to give you something to follow soon!
Thanks for visiting me.

Still Trying...

To get a picture to show up for me as a thumbnail.

Edited to add....Yay! It worked.....Don't know what I was doing wrong....................everything, I guess!

"This corn tastes so good"!

Just trying to get some lunch before the birds eat everything.

 

 

Playing with fonts......

I have been trying some new things on here and I think I have found a font that is easier to read.

For those of you who were wondering about the barn picture. This barn is in Delaware County and I like it because the picture has a nice snowy scene.
Barns in every county in Ohio were painted to celebrate Ohio's Bicentennial in 2003 by a young man named Scott Hagan.
There are some really wonderful painted barns all over the state.

Linda

I really can't wait another day.....

I really should create a blog. Oh, wait............I already have one!
A very neglected one at that. I am a really faithful reader of blogs and a sometime commenter of them but for some reason I always get behind on my postings.

I noticed that within the last couple of days I have gained a few more followers and on that note I feel guilty not having some more recently postings.
I hope you will all stay with me for you never know what just may be in the works for this humble little blog of mine.

I have been wanting to take some pictures of a few of my collections and some of the winter weather around me but my camera is acting up. If I can't figure out what's wrong with it I may have to buy a new one.

I just love a blog with pictures and have really enjoyed seeing all that my favorite blogs have been showing.

I will be back soon. A good day to all.
Linda