Well I'll bee

It's not a bee.  Flitting from flower to flower I assumed it was, but this is a fly.  Solid shiny black, smaller than a carpenter bee, a bit smaller than a bumblebee.  It doesn't hover as bees do, flies like a fly, looks like a fly, acts like a bee.  Never saw a butt this size or one that loves flowers like this guy.  In all the years my big butt has been sitting outside,  I've never seen one.

You can get so excited over the littlest things during a pandemic.  Flies with big butts.

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Colors of Hannah

As charted!  That's new for me but so far, nothing I would change.  Almost switched the 642 which is close to the linen color but decided to be mellow and accept it.  Chart calls for Ale but I am happy with this lighter unbleached. 

Index finger is numb today so progress is stalled. 

Have a great day folks.  

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Oh Michael

You're killing me.  I decided to order online for an in store pickup at the Ohio store and found it in stock.  Not only in Niles, but also in Hermitage (my store).  Why didn't I find it?  So I put it in the cart along with several others I needed for these projects, and went to pick them up this afternoon.  Of course, there was one I failed to order and had to look for it myself.  On closer inspection, I found more reasons why it's so difficult to get what I need. 

I assumed these bins were a different type of floss since they are minus the color number.  Nope.  There is another section marked 56 cents (they are 62), no identifying color numbers, not specialty thread, standard cotton DMC.  In no order.  You have to crunch down (literally as that was the sound my body was making) and with magnifiers to find the color number on the label.   Maybe these bins were for a metallic or variegated at some point, but I didn't see anything by good ol' cotton.

Then there's this area.

And this one with random numbers and no bin tags at all.

So from now on, I will order online and have them search.  They found my colors, so they must have a secret system not shared with customers.  I am grateful for that, because I have all the colors I need for all the projects.  Sure I do.  There's always that one, isn't there?

I need a nap.

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Start #1

Stacy Nash Hannah Jenkinson, without the gorgeous 3830.  Neither Michael's nor JoAnn's has this so I will make a trip to HL in a day or two while working the other threads. The linen is 28 as suggested, a natural tan, and the threads are fabulous.  I ordered a piece of PTP Faun and I hope I like it, waiting for Wren and Vellum to be restocked.  Ann will be done on Flax.  There are so many motifs and elements to her and I think a mottled linen would be too busy and take away from the design.  

This made it easier for me to see if I had any workable fabric.  I listed 30, 32, and 35/36 required size for each sampler and checked the count bags for anything that would work.  Now why haven't I done this before?  So much quicker and much less mess.

We're past the half way mark of August.  Hard to believe, and I ain't happy.

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One out of five

 I found the Fragments!  I decided to study this little gem while grieving for its missing family members and saw this on the front of the cellophane envelope

and this on the back.

Now, someone who is alert and has brain engagement would know immediately, this is not the same.  But me?  I turned that little envelope over and over and over, trying to understand why they printed the wrong photo for that design.  But since floss tubers have enamored me to the sound of crinkling cellophane, I enjoyed it.  The light bulb finally came on and I realized the cards were statically stuck together as one.  One mystery solved.  Now where is the Rook and did I really sell it?

I stopped at Michael's while waiting for Carole's appt to be over, and found several frames for old family photos.  I like simple, but for old photos that doesn't work.  I am really pleased at how the finishes go so well with the photos.

My mom and her family .... and my Italian grandparents.

I have more to frame, unsure of a wall or table display.  Depends on how many in the group.

Enjoy your day!!

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You're serious?

1.  Obviously, they are!  My state (PA) does not believe that a person deliberately voting under someone else's name, is intentional.  If you sign someone else's name on a check, I guess that's also not intentional and shouldn't be considered fraud. 

The fact that our state and federal governments are so irresponsible in their jobs, that they don't know who is deceased, don't know if a social security number should be active, is a disgrace.  We received my father in law's (died in 2008 and never lived here) and my mother's (died in 2007 and did live here), mail in ballot applications.  I have their SS# and no doubt could mail them in and get a ballot for each.  But of course, that would not be intentional fraud according to my state.  If they think this person is alive and a legitimate voter (obviously since an application was mailed), how would they know to reject that ballot?  My brother received the former home owner's who lives in another state and has for over 20 years.  Shouldn't counties which have more accurate records be responsible for this?  Property taxes would have the correct owners, per capita tax records are for every resident whether they own or rent employed or not, death certificates are recorded, and our voting records are there.  Wouldn't that make more sense?

2.  And in the same day's paper, there was this story of a local teacher.  I hid his name because the  jackass would probably sue.

Am I reading this right?  He can apply to a school in another district or state, and they are not obligated to release this sexual misconduct in his file?  Unless compelled by law?  So they protect their union members to this extent with no regard for possible victims?  Please correct me if I am wrongly interpreting this and I surely hope I am.  It's happened around here several times, and these cases seem to disappear.

3.  AND - I cannot find my two pieces of 35 count 18th Century Rook,  I must have sold them, and have no idea why I would have!

4.  AND - those sweet little Fragment charts that I bought recently?  I found one.  ONE.  The others have vanished.

5.  AND - my large soapstone sink cracked.  Cracked.  Across the entire width.

How's your weekend going???

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