Settling In

We’ve been busy settling in over the last couple of weeks. We really love our condo and all of the neighbors we have met have been great. I still need to find out about activities. Dennis was out walking Zoey last night, and one of the neighbors told him that he thought there were knitting and crochet groups, but he didn’t know when. I need to investigate how I find out more information about that. The aerobics classes in the pool should be starting soon too. That sounds pretty interesting.

I’m going through my worsted weight scraps and trying to find colors that will go together for shawls. I have two different scrap bins and I’m trying to use up as many as possible. Here is the blue stripe shawl

And here is a green stripe.

Right now I’m working on a multicolored shawl. It has every color you could imagine in it and I’m using up all of my little tiny scrap balls. It’s not exactly to my taste, but I know someone will love it. It’s almost done so I’ll have it next time to show you.

Last weekend Brad needed to take his plane down to Beatrice, NE to have some work done on it. What is normally a 2 1/2 hour drive only took them about a half an hour in the plane. Piper went with him and was able to fly part of the way. He said she did very well at keeping the plane level. She’s a natural! This past weekend, they flew down with another friend to pick the plane up after the repair. Then Piper and Brad flew back home to Omaha, again, with her flying part of the way. She’ll probably have her pilots license before she has her drivers license! Look how pleased she is with herself. When she was first born, Brad  bought her her first pink pilot headset and a pink pilot logbook. 💜 Brad is a certified flight instructor so why not get free flying lessons from your Daddy?

Have any of you seen a pattern like this? I would love to make one of these for Piper, but I haven’t been able to find a pattern anywhere. It has slits up the side and I think the back is very similar to the front. If I could find a small enough pattern, I would also like to make one for Baby J.

We’ve had gorgeous weather this week. No air conditioning at all. We sit on the balcony most afternoons and evenings. Zoey loves it and so do we. I particularly love to listen to our little fountain but it has developed a leak. We’ve had it since Brad gave it to us when they lived in Portland. It’s survived several moves and I would like to be able to repair it, but we can’t find the actual leak. We don’t want to have the water dripping onto the patio of the people below us, so I think it’s time to say goodbye to it.

Here are the flowers Mandy, Brad and Piper gave me for Mother’s Day. My favorite color!

This is the view from our Balcony. The roof on the bottom is our garage. We’re on the second floor. You can see the garden patch that is pretty popular. There are limited spots. So many people want a spot that you have to put your name in a lottery to get a space. The sidewalk winds around to the community building and pool.

Take care and enjoy the lovely weather that it seems most are experiencing right now.

Blessings and love,

Betsy