Catching up!

Good Morning everyone! Can you believe that it's the middle of May already? We have had such a busy month. Last week we were camping with Curt & Barb and Jeff & Angie. It poured virtually the entire time. Both of their campers leaked. Guess where the leaks were? Right over their beds of course. It ended up that our camper was the place to be! We had our meals and hung out there and we all had a wonderful time anyway. It cleared up enough the first night, (while the wood was dry), to have a campfire for about an hour and make s'mores.

We got home and barely unpacked things before our houseguests arrived much earlier than expected. I was still in the shower! They just left yesterday and now life will return to it's normal pace, at least I hope so. 

If I missed your posts I apologize. I haven't been online at all until yesterday and then I tried to catch up with everyone.

On Sunday Dennis and I are going camping by ourselves for four nights. We're just going to Mahoney State Park, about 20 minutes from home so we can get back for Mom if need be. She's doing really well right now and I sure hope that continues. We both have projects in the trailer we want to do, so it will be nice to have time there by ourselves. I have some storage things to try out and a few decorating things to do. He has more mundane issues like child locks on a few drawers that keep opening as we drive and some maintenance issues. Of course the forecast is for rain the entire time, but we don't care as long as it slows to sprinkles for set-up and tear-down of the campsite.

Now for the fun stuff! I did finish these socks finally. When I only knit on them while in the car or in Sunday School they take awhile. However, it was 3 1/2 hours each way to our camping spot last week so they were finished lickety-split. These were made with Opal yarn in the "Blue" colorway. I have no idea why they look green here. Just imagine shades of blue where the green is.

This is a stack of three dishcloths folded up ready to pop in a bag as a gift. It's "I Love This Cotton" from Hobby Lobby in the Gray colorway and the pattern is the moss stitch. I'm giving these to Angie who we camped with last week. After arriving home on Wednesday from camping, her Dad passed away on Friday night. She's had a rough week and she had told me how much she loves knitted dishcloths, so I thought I would make her a few. Her kitchen is charcoal gray and white so these should match well.

I also finished another wheelchair blanket for the Memory Care unit.  This one is made using scraps I had in my stash plus a skein of variegated Big Twist in gray, pink and purple. I love how it turned out and may just have to make one for myself someday. Mine would need to be a bigger blanket to snuggle in while watching TV. Purple is my all time favorite color and I like how the other colors blend too. I still have to wash and block this one since the inside squares look a bit wonky.

Last night I started another wheelchair blanket in more manly colors in the "Every Which-Way" pattern. It's truly using all scraps that I've had for a long, long time in my stash. Some I've had for at least 20 years! I like how it's turning out though.

I saw this photo on Facebook. It's a town in Italy but I don't remember the name. Isn't it amazing? How would you like to walk out your back door in one of these houses? It is a real photo, not AI from what the article says. The views must be amazing, but I must admit, it gives me a bit of anxiety just looking at the photo. I don't do very well with heights. 

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the spring here in the northern hemisphere and fall down under. This is my favorite time of year when the earth wakes up and all of nature seems to celebrate. 

My prayers are with the people all over the world who are experiencing violence.  From Burma and the Ukraine to the innocent civilians in Israel and Gaza. There are many other wars happening that we never hear about. I pray for the innocent people and for the terrorists to be awakened to what they're doing to their own people. I fear what's coming to the U.S. if we don't wake up and realize that it can happen here too. 

On that rather depressing note I'll close. I pray for each one of you and I hope you know how much you mean to me and to our God too.

Blessings and love,
Betsy