Can It Get Any Quieter Here?

So sorry about the heat. I used to laugh when everyone in NM would say "but it's a dry heat" - uh huh - it's still over 100. When the heat really would hit we switched our work hours (out in the desert) to coming in aorund 2 am, to be done by noon or so. Even midnight to noon was typical. Way too hot to work in the afternoon.

All I can say - cold compresses. That may help.

Ellice

Nah! just busy, busy with life. ruby

Where can we see Amethyst Dreams? It sounds like a great project.

Sharon (N.B.)

Where can we see Amethyst Dreams? It sounds like a great project.

Sharon (N.B.)

Donna has a picture of her finished piece in her color way of black/gray, in her album on RCTNP.

Lucille

Oh wow, that's absolutely beautiful. What great work Donna.

Sharon (N.B.)

Still working on Dimensions' The Mighty Samurai, but one of the other frames I have just set up Stoney Creek's St. Nicholas by that found at second-hand shop [never opened].

Also, I'm looking at doing a small quick piece either by Designs For The Needle called Victorian House, or Bucilla's Butterflies And Flowers for a Christmas present for a friend who has been like a second mom since mine past years ago.

Oh, and almost forgot the time consuming thing that I have been working on. I have also learning to use a comb binder to finally start grouping together all the items on computer [my personal webpage has some] into one coil book so my family don't have to.

This is my form of "vacation" that the meeting with the cancer ctr. said I could consider doing if couldn't do treatments anymore. Who can afford to travel these days anyway, and where that is safe enough to go to.

I'm on the last lap of 'The Mighty Samurai, and if I was going to stitch it again, I would add fractional stitches. The backstitch edging the Peacock is aggravating me. Would you make any alterations ?

Sorry to hear about the death in the family.

I know what you mean about finding homes for plants - I'm currently thinning my daylilies drastically. The iris bed is on the list for fall digging. I find the division works best later in the year here.

Cheryl

Thank you, Sharon!

Donna in Virginia

I'm still willing to take some if we can figure out where to put them.

-Margaret in MA

Also sorry to hear about the family loss.

On the garden topic - Cheryl will be glad to know that DH & I expanded a bed in front, and got all the daylilies planted on Sat - unfortunately taking til about 1:15 (meaning very hot and humid). They're all happy - I think - with new mulch, etc. Just so you know - used another 280# of good top soil, and 3 more huge bags of the organic soil amendment stuff we use. What fun. At least one of the plants is sending up new growth.

Ellice

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Thanks to all for your thoughts. It wasn't unexpected. DA lasted longer than expected and fortunately was in little pain.

I took a bag full of iris up the street to a woman who had always commented on them when she was walking her kids back from the bus stop. We're known as the house with all the iris on the street. And all these came from the next door neighbor. When she was dividing them she dumped some on the lot before my parents built the house They just came up after having been moved around in the top soil. She gave more to DF some years later. Of course this is all over 50 years ago and so they been divided more times than we can count and literally grow almost anywhere.

Next....a "Free Iris" sign if the girl from the house painter's office doesn't come pick hers up.

Nancy

That ought to be amusing..... We'll go for smaller daylilies!

Just keep them watered now!

Cheryl

Yeah, yeah. It rained most of the day on Sunday, and a bit yesterday. It's still damp - but I'll be setting up the sprinklers tonight - finally.

It's so ucky here that our electric coop sent an e-mail to us requesting that we set our thermostats to 82 during the 2-6 pm time, or turn off the a.c., and "use fans to move the air." - for this week. As it's quite humid out, and also I guess this is the week that they do the rating/pricing for peak power usage surcharges - so if people try to minimize the demand it will help us all with what we end up paying during the year. The fun of a power cooperative. At work this morning I was talking about this with the "regulars" that live in the hood.

Ellice

I was and I had a great time! I went to my sister, Carol's in WA (just north of Portland, OR) for 10 days. Lucky me, I was there when the all-time record high of 107 was matched and was also "lucky" to witness breaking the streak with 10 days over 90. DSis doesn't like the heat so when her house was being built she had them install central air. :)

We celebrated my sister's birthday Tues., went to the beach Wed., which was the hottest day (only 68 at the beach...heaven!), Thurs.went to Seattle to visit 2 nieces (my oldest sister's girls) and their brand-new babies, had supper at Carol's daughter's house on Fri., went to a "farm party" (the people raise alpacas and mushrooms) on Sat., Sunday visited Mt.St. Helens (*awesome*!) and Carol's other daughter. Monday we shopped, Tues. we did the "fruit loop" (a whole valley of orchards) in OR and (to keep this on topic) visited a couple yarn stores!

The first ys we went to was in Vancouver...just a little shop but with a very nice selection. I found a skein of 2-ply wool that I'm going to use to felt a little cell-phone bag to clip to my belt loops. The other place was on the fruit loop. It's a place that raises alpacas. They have some raw alpaca wool, some they spin and dye themselves and some they import. That stuff is pure heaven to touch!!!!! As soon as I save up a bit of money, I'm going to order some bulky baby alpaca to make a lap robe for myself. If anyone wants links to these stores, let me know.

Joan

Forgot to add that while on my trip, I also revisited my tatting (took a class at CATS when it was in Vegas a few years ago) and tatted up a few pieces. Just have to figure out how to hide the ends now. Will post pics later.

Wow - what a fun time for you. Getting to visit family, and go places. Mt. St Helen's is a fabulous place to visit - I went about >20 years ago - just a couple of years after the eruption, and have amazing photos that we took of the new growth coming in (may have even been only a year).

Alpacas and mushrooms - that's a great combo. The Referee-In-Chief for USAHockey SED raises alpacas in Tennessee. One of the district meetings was near there and everyone got to go see them. The yarn is amazing. Definitely worth saving for some baby alpaca. Links are good!

Glad to have you back... I have to go stitch now and be jealous. Somehow I think that my weekend in NJ, and upcoming seminar in Milwaukee won't have quite the same tourism fun factor.

Ellice