More Stormy Weather

Hello and happy Tuesday to everyone. We have rain predicted to start falling in a little while with a chance of severe storms, so I’ve gotten all my errands done this morning and will stay home the rest of the day. It is hot and humid out there and I don’t do well with humidity as we all know. We’ve been busy with Mom this week. She seems to be fixated now on the fact that Dennis and I are living together. 🤷‍♀️ She wants to know why that’s necessary!? She has asked us that every day for the past five or six days. When Dennis told her we’ve been married 46 years, she didn’t believe him. She thinks we’re just living together.  I wondered why she had been so rude to me the last few days. Every time I did anything for her or suggested anything to her she would say, “well I’ll just wait and talk to Dennis about that, you don’t know anything about me.” Apparently that’s the newest thing going on in her mind. It’s so sad. It keeps us on our toes though, because we don’t ever know what’s going to be next. Last night she thought the entire family was all living together in a huge house and we had put her away somewhere and are pushing her out of the family. She wanted to know why I was there when we’re not even married and she wasn’t allowed to be. Oh my goodness!

On to happier things. I finished another wheelchair blanket for the facility Mom lives in. I think the colors together turned out well together.

And another wheelchair blanket. It is done in my Mom’s favorite colors. Both blankets are made using Caron One Pound yarn from JoAnns’s. The peach color on the outside is from a solid color skein and all of the other colors are part of a variegated skein. As I said, my Mom would have loved this. Anything that was in a peachy tone she would have thought was beautiful.

You see my model in the above picture and both puppies on my lap early this morning. We’re taking care of Lizzie for a few days. It’s been so much fun and the girls are loving it. They are both cuddle bugs. They really like soft blankets too.

Here we were on a car ride on Saturday. Both girls love to ride in the car. I don’t know why I always tilt my head up like that unless it’s because I can’t see out of my bifocals to take a picture otherwise! Lizzie always puts her head on Dennis’s shoulder as he’s driving and Zoey is constantly on the alert for anything moving.

Connie from the blog “Far Side Of Fifty” sent me this wonderful sock yarn the other day. I love to use Patons Kroy Socks. It knits up beautifully with nice patterns and makes very hard wearing socks. Thank you so much, Connie. I appreciate you thinking of me in the middle of everything you’ve had to do recently.

I thought I would show you a photo of Dennis‘s new truck topper. We’ve used it for one camping trip and it makes things so much easier than the tonneau cover we had before. In fact, since he has an 8 foot truck bed, we could even sleep back there if we needed to. I think that sounds like fun, but he’s not nearly as excited about that as I am. He does really like the topper though. 

That’s about it here. Dennis is volunteering at the open door mission today and tomorrow. He’s usually there eight or nine hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. I’ve just been getting some errands done and doing a bit of cleaning today. Now I think I’ll sit down and knit on my current pair of socks. I must confess to the fact that I’ve been playing on my iPad more than I’ve been crocheting or knitting lately. For some reason, I’m addicted to Spider Solitaire and a block building game, as well as Wordle. I’ve been on quite the winning streak with Wordle though, and I hate to mess that up!😂 This is fairly unusual for me, as I would usually rather be crocheting or knitting than anything else. I’ve decided that I’m allowed to do this once in a while and not to beat myself up for it though.

I hope all is going well with all of you. I think we’re getting into the hot and humid days of summer in the Midwest. We’re both getting excited about heading toward the mountains at the end of the month. If all goes as planned, we should be gone about a month. Take care everyone.

Blessings, 

Betsy