Thank You

Thank you so much for all of the wonderful birthday greetings. Just look at all of the cards I received. Many of them were from you.

Piper sent me this notebook that she had made at school. This is her original artwork. I want to think of a very special way of using this notebook. Isn’t she a wonderful artist?

Jenny & Neal gave me these balloons at a surprise party Saturday night. There were about 25 people waiting to surprise me at a local Chinese buffet. Believe me, I was shocked. There were even two couples from the lake.  I’m  usually not very good with surprises and I don’t like being the center of attention, so they promised me that they had only invited our small group Bible study and a few people from the lake. 

Jenny also gave me this recipe book. It reads more like a normal book with a few recipes sprinkled in. I think I’m going to enjoy it.

John and Sally who are friends from the lake gave me these two signs to put in our new trailer.

Although this wasn’t technically a birthday present, I’m counting it as one! Debra, who is Araignee over on my side bar, had her seasonal soap giveaway.  There is absolutely nothing on the market as good as her lotion bars and I use her lip balm every night before I go to sleep. But that bar of soap. Oh my! It smells absolutely divine.   Thank you once again Debra for your unending generosity with these giveaways.  She makes all of the labels too.  

She also made the sweetest little snowman card, but now I can’t find the photo I took of it.

I won a gift card to Knit Picks from my friend Kim‘s YouTube video at “Napier’s Knits.” I used it to buy these two skeins of sock yarn.  They are both stroll tonal colorways. Aren’t they beautiful? Thank you Kim!

I finished the Amulet Shawl by Helen Stewart yesterday evening.  Here it is blocking.  It was so wide I couldn’t get the whole thing in the photo.  I also used Knit Picks yarn for the shawl. It is the Hawthorne fingering weight yarn in the colorways “graffiti speckle” and “kerns”.

A bit of a closer look. Look at all of those beads. I really do surprise myself at how much I enjoy putting beads into my knitting.  I just checked it and it is almost dry.

I’m still crocheting on my giant rectangular granny blanket. It’s about the size of a twin size bed right now and I’m starting to run out of yarn. I’m going to keep going as long as I can before putting a border on. I’m rather enjoying it. I would work on the intricate shawl for a while and then switch to the granny blanket that I didn’t have to think about.

We had about 5 inches of snow this morning when I had to leave to drive up “the hill” to the neurologist. Luckily, the main roads weren’t too bad I just had to navigate my way out of our neighborhood and up a few roads on “the hill.”  I don’t even have that many doctors appointments anymore, but I always seem to have them when it snows! It’s still coming down out there but I don’t think it’s accumulating much more as it’s warmed up to about 35°.

I ended up getting 19 injections directly into the muscles this morning. My goodness they were painful! He said he went a lot deeper into the muscle this time. It’s kind of a last ditch effort. I go back to see him in seven weeks and will decide what the next course of action is. I’m hoping against hope that these injections work.  It was fairly painful driving home and leaning against the seat. When I got home and took my shirt off and there was blood all over it! That hasn’t happened before. This afternoon I’m going to just take it easy and sit in my chair and do some crocheting.

I’m keeping people all over the world in my prayers regarding this coronavirus that seems to be spreading at an alarming rate. We are hearing of more and more people every day who are affected by it in one way or another. I pray that it can get controlled quickly.

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday afternoon.

“I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand on the earth.”  Job 19:25

“I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”Psalm 16:8

Blessings,

Betsy