Mocha Moment

Some of my favorite ways to have coffee are

to add some thing like the above pictured cup with

some mint chocolate chip ice cream in it.

Or a packet of sugar free cocoa and four

mint chips m-m good!

Prayer Shawls

Trying out some links from my photo bucket here.

I started a new project random striped prayer shawl.

Finished up a couple lap robes last week

one in random stripes white gold & orange,

and the other one was solid gold.

Like this one in process

only in different colors.

I dream of making a crochet prayer shawl or poncho

similar to the photo below, I like the black between each square.

The crochet granny squares I do are

more similar to the one in the next picture.

Road to Recovery

My road to recovery have been slow.

I was weak in the fall and winter last year

hurt my back / arm some how I and could not do much

hubby had to help with house work laundry dishes etc.

it hurt to type on the p/c.

We got a new grand daughter

she was born last fall and is nearly a year old now.

This year for mom's day I had dear son reformat the pc and

lost a bunch of stuff.

I have my strength back for the most part now yea!

I started to resume my exercise in the spring and

had to fight to regain my strength but have had success

in that and this summer I've got back walking then progressed

to mowing, and working in the garden. This fall I planted

some new bulbs I could not do that last year.

I enjoyed the farmers market this summer.

To survive this economy. We've sold some stuff 1500 Vulcan classic

motor cycle and the ATV's this spring and the ATV / motor cycle cargo

trailer. Retirement is way different than we anticipated.

In early summer we a yard sale and got rid of a lot of clutter.

I stayed pretty close to home this past year but I was able

to get out and see the demo derby and dirt bike enduro cross

races son-in-law and dear grandson were in racing dirt bikes.

Hubby used to do that when he was in high school also.

We did a lot of tree pruning and took out

a smallish maple tree this year and some stuff that

had died in the heat last year we

hauled off loads of branches that was great exercise for both of us.

I knit up prayer shawls, crocheted lap robes and

puppets in the spring and through out the rest of

the year too. The grand kids love the puppets and

lap robes came in handy at dear grand sons flag football game.

Fall cleaning has begun just in case we have any holiday gatherings here.

I think it's my turn to cook. If not it will be clean any way.

I'm happy to be able to do this again now.

I've simplified quite a bit of stuff and

do less decorating we gave up on doing holiday outside lights

decided we are too old to be climbing up on the roof in the cold weather.

Hum... wondering if that excuse will be good for gutter cleaning after

leaves are down LOL!