Yes I am still here

I am still alive and kicking. Just to tired and lazy to post. I really don't have a lot going on at this time. It hot as hell and my air conditioning in my car is not working so not to many weekend road trips. I am still knitting dishcloths. I am almost finish knitting a Hot Blue Frog dishcloth the pattern is from Garden Dishcloths to Knit by Melissa Bergland Burnham. Summer reading going slow and that's my fault too. I started reading How To Knit A Heart Back Home, by Rachael Herron over a week ago and only on page 36 not because it is a bad read but because I have come to a point that I have to make myself do simple things and also all the things I enjoy. This weekend I finally brought the Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Yes I know should have read the book a long time ago and why did I wait until a major movie is about to come out? I don't know I have picked the book up so many times at my local bookstore and put it back down. It is a great read! I am caught up in the story already. If I am finished with the book in time I might go see the movie. I gave up on Little Dorritt, by Charles Dickens for now. However I will go back to Little Dorrit before the end of the year. I think I might give Jane Eyre a try. The tomato's are finally coming in out in the garden and they are wonderful. I love a tomato sandwich.

Boring Saturday Night

It is Saturday night and I am bored. I am watching Primetime with Diane Sawyer it is the interview she did with Jaycee Dugard. It is a sad story and I don't know how this young women did not go crazy. Such a strong person. My favorite show comes on at 10:00 48 Hours A Mystery so I will watch that show. Thinking about casting on a dishcloth. I was working on a dishcloth last night and I don't know what went wrong but I had to rip it out. Still reading A Stitch Before Dying, by Anne Canadeo. My Grandmother had to go to the hospital on Friday so today my daughter , her boyfriend, and my niece went to visit. She was upset and I am not sure she knew who I was and she thought my daughter was some woman from the nursing home. My Grandmother is 95 she has dementia so this is why she can remember some of the family and not other's. I love my Grandmother and my Sister and I grow up in the home with our Mother and our Grandmother but she was and still even at this stage of life is a hateful woman. I am not saying she did not love us because I know she did, she was and still is a hateful woman. It is distressing to see her in this condition. Growing old if you are not in good health can be a hard thing. I am not sure I want to live to be very old if quality of life is not good. So far things have not been the best as it is . My plans are to go to the movies tomorrow with my daughter to see the final Harry Potter movie. A few weeks ago I made a vegetarian lasagna I found recipe on http://www.news14.com/ the squash and zucchini take the place of the lasagna noodles. It was a great recipe and my Mother and Sister really enjoyed it. My daughter did not she said she missed the noodles. My sister said she liked it a lot and did not miss the meat. We are both big meat eater's and I did not miss the meat either.

Back To Work Today

Well I did not sleep very well last night thinking about the fact that I had to go back to work after a nice long week off. I enjoyed my week of sleeping and watching old movies on tv. I really need to start buying lottery tickets and pray for a little luck. Maybe I could win and be able to spend all my time reading, watching tv, knitting and crocheting. So when I got to work today I had a nice surprise my desk had been moved. This is due to the work being due on the heating and air conditioning system. I am happy about the change I feel better now that I am facing the door instead of having my back to the door. I have a lot of work to do to get caught up. So I will have to push myself this week. That is the trouble with taking time off the work you have to do when you get back. The tomato's in the garden are doing well, but this year I am not to sure about the Sweet One Hundred I have on the deck. It has grown a lot but leaves have stated to turn yellow and die still have tomato's coming and the vines are going a lot so I don't know what's going on. I still have 4 more Sweet One Hundreds so hopefully I will have cherry tomato's. Picture of our Whooper Tomato's. Still knitting dishcloth's and reading A Stitch Before Dying, by Anne Canadeo. A great easy read. It takes longer to read when you have to make room for work, knitting, blogging, cleaning, crochetville, and ravelry.

butterflies are Free

It's Saturday and my vacation is almost over. Today was a not so bad day. I have added a few rows to a dishcloth I am working. Spent time working on my bedroom and watching Harry Potter Movies on the Family Channel. My daughter sells Scentsy Wickless Frangrances , she brought my order in today. I had a few people at work buy a few things and I was able to receive a few free items and some for half price. They are great scents. Love the plug ins. My daughter has a website. https://KendraBruton.Scentsy.us . It is a great way for her to earn extra income. She delivered the items today and on Monday I will take the things my friends ordered to them. This is a great picture of a butterfly I took this week. Craft on!

Still cleaning my bedroom

Well the work continues on my bedroom. I have picked out all the magazines to keep and the one's to give away. Slowly but surely I will get my bedroom clean. Tomato's are on the vine in the garden and in the container garden. Cast on a dishcloth tonight the dishcloth is from the night a pattern a day calendar 2008. Pattern name Texas Sun Dishcloth. I spent time today putting away the magazine's I plan to keep. Spent a lot of time watching old movies with Leslie Howard on TCM today while working on my bedroom. It has been a stormy day rain and storms on and off all afternoon. A storm brewing right now. A picture of the white lily in my yard. The lily is beautiful.

I am so lazy

So I spent most of the morning watching tv. I watched teen mom and true life. I have decided that I could spend my entire day watching tv and laying in the bed doing nothing. If it would not lead to me becoming homeless. I went through all my knitting and crochet magazines and I have decided on the one's to keep and the one's to get throw away. My plan is to go by Goodwill to see if I can donate the magazine's. The thought of throwing them in my recycling bin bothers me. Someone might want the magazines. Re watching once again the Harry Potter movies. So no knitting or reading today. Our Trumpet Vine has started to bloom it is the deep purple. Getting closer to a clean bedroom.

I am on vacation.

Really it is a stay at home vacation. I did not go anywhere. I am here at the house. I did not have the money to go anywhere so just hanging out at home. I will return to work on Monday. It has been a long time since I have had a week off. I am trying to get some reading and knitting done. Today I watched old movies on TCM so I have not achieved any of my cleaning goals. I will do better tomorrow. I need to get my bedroom clean. My bedroom looks like an episode of Hoarding Buried Alive. I know what I need to do to make this stop. One get rid of most of my knitting and crochet magazines. Really hate to let go of them. I will never be able to knit or crochet all or half the projects. My intentions were good. Two get rid of some of my yarn. I have a lot of yarn mostly acrylic. Still knitting dishcloths. My Daughter put in an order for potholders. The lilies in the backyard bloomed this week very pretty.

A Harry Potter Weekend.

My Niece and I are preparing ourselves for the part two of the final Harry Potter movie. We are watching all the Harry Potter movies. We are watching the the first movie now. This has been a slow month for me. I have been a bad blogger. I don't think I will get in more post this year than I did last year. I am knitting dishcloths. Still building my stock for Christmas. I am still reading A Stitch Before Dying by Anne Canadeo. So far a great summer read. It is hard to work in reading, knitting, sleep, and work. Also I have to spend time working in the garden. It is another hot dry summer in my area of North Carolina. You have to water almost everyday. The weeds are taking over one spot in the garden. I pulled weeds yesterday and I plan to spend the week of the fourth pulling more weeds. We have a lot of leaves in the yard and we are using them to keep the weeds out of the garden. I have no plans to go anywhere during the week of the fourth no funds for a vacation. My plan is to work on the yard, garden, and the inside of the house, knit and read, maybe add in crochet. I wish I could go to the beach but I can't afford a trip to the beach. This is the third year at my job without a raise. I am thankful to still have a job but it would be nice to have a raise. Living expenses are going up but not my wages. It it is hard to keep your spirits up thinking about all of these things. Oh well craft on. I am sure things will improve soon.

The last few hours of my weekend

It is Sunday night and my cloths are clean and I am getting myself ready for the work week ahead. I spent most of the weekend alone which was great. My Mother was in Candor with her Sister and visiting their Mother. So I spent most of the week alone and loving every minute of my time alone. I love to come home after a long hard day at work to an empty house and for that house to stay that way. I watched tv knit and read a book. I finished the book this weekend. It was a great easy relaxing read. It was 3 books in one by Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, and Christina Skye The Knitting Diaries. Spent time watering the garden trying to keep all the tomato's that I said I would not plant this year but planted anyway alive. Some of the petunias and marigolds we put in planters are dying. I am not sure why. We brought them at Lowes Hardware. I am not sure whats going on. The Patio tomato and Sweet One hundreds are doing okay, I am worried about one however. The Swiss Chard looks great! I am watching Sister Wives love the show. A special episode comes on at 9:00. My Daughter, her boyfriend and her dog Cece came by on Saturday. We put hamburgers and corn on the grill. I knit two Grandmother's Favorite Dishcloths and just finished a Sunflower dishcloth from Garden Dishcloths to knit. I found peaches and creme cotton at the Walmart in Randleman on Saturday. It was on sale for $1.00 per ball. I found the Sunflower color I need to finish a dishcloth I started and a very pretty Gold. I needed the Sunflower because I had a ball of Sunflower and I had knit one Grandmother's Favorite Dishcloth and I wanted to know how many dishcloths I could get out of one ball of variegated yarn. Well I could get almost two. Almost two means that I need another inch and a half to finish the cloth. I am knitting dishcloths for Christmas so this is why I am trying to get as many dishcloth done as I possible can. So tomorrow I will force myself to not be lazy and cast on another dishcloth. I have a pattern for a dishcloth with a cat design in the middle. I might cast on at lunch tomorrow. I will need to find a very quite place to cast on . That is hard at my job. The break room is very loud and not very relaxing. It is already to hot to sit in the car at lunchtime. Maybe I can find an empty meeting room. My visit to Books-A-Million was great I found two books that I want to read. A Stitch Before Dying, by Anne Canadeo and How To Knit A Heart Back Home, by Rachael Herron. I plan to start A Stitch Before Dying tonight. Great weekend and I am living for Friday. Craft On!!

Memorial Weekend

The long weekend started with a trip to our local farmers market here in Asheboro. Then we came home because we brought flowers and did not want to leave the flowers in the car on our trip to Greensboro and the farmers market on sandy ridge road. I love going to the farmers market on sandy ridge road the flowers and fresh vegetables are great. Today we ate at Moose Cafe it is country food but it was good and loved the service. Spent some time later today working in the yard. We brought a beautiful Patio tomato at the farmers market in Greensboro and I plan to plant it tomorrow it was only $3.00 and a good size. I have a trip planned to Lowes Hardware to buy potting soil. Maybe tomorrow I will post a picture of the tomato. So far no reading knitting or crochet.

A long weekend

I am so happy with the long weekend. So far no knitting or reading. I plan to spend some time in the garden tomorrow. Get up tomorrow and go to the farmer market. Then start a cleaning of my bedroom. Knit and read. Happy long weekend.

Summer Garden

We made a big start to our summer garden and summer flowers. Most of our flowers are perennials and will come back every year. I love them the best because if you can get the plant to live you don't have to worry about the plant again. We always plant a few hanging baskets with petunia's and begonia's. In the vegetable garden we planted 6 Whopper tomato's, 8 Roma tomato's, 1 banana pepper, 1 chili pepper, 6 Swiss Chard , 1 Red Sorrel. We cleaned up the garden space that we won't use this year. I planted 4 yellow pair tomato's in hanging baskets, and another Sweet 100 cherry tomato. I have two Sweet 100's left to plant and I will have to wait until payday to buy more potting soil. The pot I plan to use takes about one and a half bags of soil. I finished another apple dishcloth and added a few rows on the slanted diamond. Still reading The Knitting Diaries great read for me. Summer is in full swing here in North Carolina.

My Weekend

It is Saturday night it has been a long quite and boring day. I love the time I get to spend alone, but today was not the best day. Fund's are low due to the fact that I have to pay bills. I wish I did not have to pay bills. It has always been my dream that I could find a Sugar Daddy to pay my bills. This has never happened because I am not the most outgoing or attractive person in the world. So no Sugar Daddy. So the day after payday I am broke and it looks like I will not be able to attend The Carolina Fiber Fest in Raleigh next weekend. Oh well it could be a lot worse and I could have no job and be homeless. I am still reading Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens it is a very, very slow read, and I am reading The Knitting Diaries, by Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, and Christina Skye. I joined a group on Ravelry that involves dishcloths and cast on the Grandmother's Favorite it is the dishcloth of the week. Still knitting the Slanted Squares dishcloth from Leisure Arts Kitchen Bright Dishcloths. So far so good. Today it cost me $35.76 to fill my gas tank. So I am trying to conserve this tank of gas and make it last until the next time I get paid. So no out of town trips which would have made my Saturday a lot better. Asheboro just has nothing to offer if you want to enjoy your weekend. Went to the library today had a few patterns I wanted to print off. I am out of ink so it is cheaper to print patterns at the library than to by ink. I want to grow as a knitter this year. Go beyond dishcloths and scarves. So sometime in the near future I plan to work on cables and circular needles.

Mother's Day.

This weekend turned out to be okay. My daughter came for a visit on Saturday she took me and my mother out to eat and then spent the night. Today we got up spent the morning together and then went to the store to prepare for a cook out. My sister came over with her family we all had a great time and now my mother is getting ready to go to montgomery county to spend time with her sister and their mother. All around great weekend. My mother and I picked up a few tomato plants and herbs to plant on Saturday and a few flowers. I am working on #8 Slanted Squares dishcloth from Leisure Arts Kitchen Bright Dishcloths. Picked up Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, and Christina Skye The Knitting Diaries. Just a few pages into the book. I will have the house to myself for the next few days. Happy Mother's Day!

Easter Sunday

Well a great end to a nice long weekend. The weekend started on Friday with a great day off and a trip to Costco and Harris Teeter. The samples left something to be desired but that's okay. I still love Costco. We had to pickup olive oil, chicken stock, butter, and laundry detergent. Then off to Harris Teeter, miss the Harris Teeter here in Asheboro. It closed years ago I think Walmart took it out years ago. It was the best place to find that hard to find ingredient for a recipe. Then I moved on to Saturday and spent most of the day cleaning the garage again. I think I can get it finished by next Saturday. Then today off to church with my daugther and then to lunch. All around great weekend. So far no knitting or crochet. I knit baby washcloths for my daughter to give to her college friend for her baby. Well when my daughter asked me to knit the dishcloths they thought the baby was a boy so I knit cloth's in boy colors. Well the baby is a girl and now my daughter has a blue stork washcloth to give her friend. I wish I would have asked for the day off tomorrow. I need to spend a little time reading tonight before I go to bed.

A Busy Day

Well today has been a busy and rainy day. My daughter paid a visit to help me clean the garage. We made a pretty good start on the garage and still have something to do to get it clean. My daughter plans to come next weekend to help finish the project. I have been able to spend most of the day today alone. after my daughter left to go back home. I really enjoy my time alone. My mother spent most of the week in Candor with her sister and I love it. I love and get along very well with my mother but I love and enjoy greatly living alone. After a long hard day at work there is nothing more that I enjoy than coming home to an empty house. I love this because after working I don't want to talk to or interact with anyone. I just don't have the energy to do so. This is the reason I don't try to date or put myself out in the dating world. I don't have any thing to give to anyone after working all day. My knitting project baby washcloth's . I need to finish them by Friday. I am working a Sailboat baby cloth. This was cloth is from leisure arts #4352 , by Melissa Bergland Burham. Still reading Little Dorrit, I've made it to page 60.

What I am working on

I am working on baby washcloth's. My daughter has a friend and her friend is having a baby. The Baby shower is this month. So far I have to cloth's ready. I am using Kristie Knits washcloth's I brought the patterns on Ravelry. So far I have knit The Rattle Cloth and The Baby Feet Cloth. I have started and put to the side for now The Pacifier Cloth, and recast on The Carriage Cloth. Still trying to read Little Dorrit wow it is a hard read. I think it is the old English the way people spoke during this time period, I am finding it very hard to follow and keep up with the flow of conversation. The plan is to press on and maybe things will get better.

Taking On A Classic!

I have decided to read another book by Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit. I want to read this book because over a year ago Turner Classic ran what I think was a mini series every Saturday for several weeks the movie Little Dorrit and then PBS did an updated version and I really enjoyed both and wanted to read the book but every time I was at a book store looking for the book I could not find it. Well on Friday I went to Greensboro to Barnes & Noble it had been awhile since my last trip and I wanted to give the store another chance. So I look around and of course I started in the craft section, then made my way to magazine's and then fiction. What did I find but Little Dorrit. I did not realize how many pages I would have to read 844 pages! I have watched a lot of movies based on Charles Dickens books but I have not read many of the books. I think I read some of Great Expectations and I did read A Christmas Carol. So after I finish A Crafty Killing, by Lorraine Bartlett. Row 46 on my Shapley Diamond dishcloth. I knit a few rows tonight. While I was knitting I listened to last weeks YarnCraft podcast. I really enjoy listening to the podcast and knitting. Very relaxing. Yesterday I finally planted my lettuce and I hope it lives. I think I waited to long to plant it. This weekend I will plant the Swiss Chard.

The weekend is oh so close

This is the eve of my weekend and I am happy about it and past ready. It has been a long week and I am tired. Just a few more hours. My Mother's birthday is on Sunday she will be 75. So this weekend on Saturday we plan to go to her favorite restaurant Arigato's . Tonight is the results show on American Idol two people go home tonight. After all these years I still love the show. This year all the talent has been great all the top elven are really good. I am not sure who I would like to see win. Still adding rows to my dishcloth. Still reading and getting ready to watch Grey's. The lettuce I have to plant this weekend.

The Middle

It is Wednesday the middle of the week. I am still feeling somewhat in the middle when it comes to getting over my funk. It seems to be getting better as the weather warms up. This past week has been a little rainy and cold. I am 19 rows into the Shapely Diamond dish cloth that I started and then restarted last week and weekend. So far no crochet but soon I have a pattern picked out for a ripple and I need to make myself go to the library to print off the pattern. I am out of ink and it is cheaper to print a pattern at the library than it is to buy printer ink. I am still reading the first in a new series by Lorraine Bartlett it is A Crafty Killing - A Victoria Square Mystery. I am on chapter seven great and entertaining read. I hope the second book in the series is in the works. When my mother moved in with me in 2006 she brought a purple iris and it finally bloomed this year. I am posting a picture.