Routine letters

 You know.  The standard outline or shape of the alphabet letters stitched in the majority of samplers.  Basic.  No need to check the chart except for spacing between them.  That's what I should be working on, especially with 46 count.

Still not able to focus ... concentrate .... pay attention!  Choosing to stitch the bottom half of this previously stitched sampler with dmc 3831 on 46 may cause a match to be lit.  In three letters, six errors to frog.   

 I will try again this evening before deciding.

Sunny and warmer today, Ollie takes advantage of the sun heating the dark wood siding.

Be well.  Stay safe.

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Ethel's bling

I prefer the E, hubs likes the heart.  Hence ....

Fred may stay more casual.  Hope to finish them in the next few days.

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They're back

This new finish is from Kathy Barrick, I don't see a date on the chart but it's probably old.  I left off the date and initials, rarely do I add those.

Changed the green and the house color, on 46 count over two.

We've always had loads of cardinals, the majority appear during very cold temps or snow.  They were absent the day after the last photos.  Today there is only about three dozen, the gathering here is behind the suet cakes, waiting their turn.  The few others are on the bird feeder.

Six females in this one.

Same gathering, hard to get them all since many are higher in the twigs.

Many of you seem to enjoy these photos so I took them today again.  They appeared right before the fine snow started falling.  I think that black spot is the Towhee.

Enjoy your day  Be safe.

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The birds

Today, as usual, loaded with cardinals.

Taken at the same time  Quite difficult to catch them together, my movement in the window scatters them.  Three pine trees surrounding the feeder, more were on the ground, and the bare branches along the pines.

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A plan

 Or close to one.

As I sit here in comfort watching Neon Dion and his friends feast against the fricking white snow, my heart aches for those in CA.  Unfathomable tragedy.  And as always, heartless scum start looting.  Enough.

My plan is to work on started-and-abandoned Mary Hughes.  I will continue stitching the bottom section and fill as needed for a drum.  

The bird will be stitched on the drum's top piece.

I really would prefer a very small mono sampler.  Helen asked which was peeking out in a recent post ... 

 2009 free BBD chart Petites Lettres Rouges

Be safe.

Be grateful. 

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Very difficult day

 Handwritten recipes.

Mother, sister, aunts.

 

Going through them is very emotional.  Not only seeing handwriting of loved ones passed, but the memories of gatherings where those dishes were served.  Flood of memories from decades ago when things were so different.  How I miss those women, their focus on family, their laugh, the joy they shared when having everyone gather.

The importance to them of taking pen in hand to a decorated recipe card, and filing in a pretty box what their families requested, was to hopefully pass on.  Little did they know, that many years ago, cursive would be deemed useless.   None can be read by adult grands and great grands.  Not even the title.  I kept what I wanted, not for the recipe itself, but the memory of that dish.  Also found some from the church cookbook of the 60's.  But that's not the way I've ever seen pierogi spelled.

Carole had six boxes of cards in addition to books and magazine snips.  Yes, she loved to cook!

How do younger postal workers know what is on that envelope?  Zip code alone doesn't sort by route or street.  Bills and most mail is in print, but what about script or written greeting cards?  Invitations?  Is reading cursive required for hiring?  Honestly, if looked at closely, why couldn't it be understood with a little effort?  Carole's handwriting is quite scratchy, hard for even me to read.

It's a bird day.

And the trees are loaded with cardinals.  

We have a third piebald, even lighter than the first, but smaller in size.

Hope you are having a good day.  

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