Andrea Mowry is a very popular designer of beautiful knitted items. I love her designs and receive her newsletter. This morning she had a newsletter in my inbox where she was introducing a new pattern, Ginny, but she was talking about the influence and memories of her grandma who has now passed away. There’s a...
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The funniest thing about Cat, at least to me, is that we went from “I think I saw a cat” to having a demanding, spoiled, hissing cat. Vince has set up a spot for her to stay warm – just a heavy piece of cardboard with a heat lamp hanging high enough above it that...
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Cherry the unicorn is excited for fall harvest. In her short story, she learns a valuable lesson in sharing. We share the inspiration for her book and hats!
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read moreKarl and I ran away on Sunday. His birthday was the 5th. Mine is the 14th so we took off and decided to hang out for the day and live up our common birthdays. I told Karl I was up for anything. He could plan the day…and he did. When Karl plans anything a coffee shop or brewery is always involved. I knew that but I didn’t know it would involve so many stops….
It’s okay it was a super fun day.
The morning started with a stop in Fayette at the Sweets Cafe. I told you ...
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This morning I was up early. I decided to treat today like I usually do for a Saturday.
Patrick has been sick all week. He's got a cold. So, he's napping from time to time. He retired 3 weeks ago. I'm still trying to figure out when I can get my time with the TV. I used to work on cleaning in the morning and either work on my beading or sit in front of the TV to work on quilting/cross stitching/crocheting. WELL, that ain't happening. I haven't been able to see any ...
Nicole is so good about sending me pictures of Addie opening her advent gifts, especially considering most of this is happening about 5:30 a.m. Nicole does such a good job of capturing her expressions. Nicole told me that she told Addie “I LOVED that book when I was your age. In fact, I was in...
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This morning was going strong. It's funny how things work out.
I met my son at Copy Depot at noon, then went to the Centralia Library to meet Sue, then was off to Safeway to pick a few things up.
Came back home and did laundry. I also ironed the batting for the QOV quilt. I've got everything ready to go for tomorrow. I have my doctors appointment at 10 am. So, I need to get moving early. Want to get to Sharon's by a quarter after 9 since it takes 30 mins to get to Kaiser ...
I walked over to the shop this morning and Cat was sitting up on her platform eating. I walked out and she was still sitting there watching me. I went back to the house, grabbed my phone and was able to get a couple of pictures of her. I could have reached out and touched...
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The other day I was reading something and read that many people use pine pellet horse bedding instead of kitty litter. The bag indicates “Superior Absorbency, Reduces Cleaning Time, Naturally Neutralizes Odor, Biodegradable with No Additives, Chemicals or Perfumes. People who had used it raved about it so I figured I would try it. First,...
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Remember that when we lived in Kentucky, Chad would laugh at the guys who drove pickup trucks and spent their free time hunting and fishing! Here’s the page from the local newspaper today. His buck won second place and probably would have won first place except he trimmed some fat off when he was field...
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Nicole sent pictures of Addie opening her Advent gifts. This year she has a Barbie “kit” and the other one is just little gifts I picked up through the year. I did a little chart of random acts of kindness she has to do each day and that’s supposed to correspond with the little individually...
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We got back home yesterday around 4:30 pm. We had a long drive, but it was smooth. We did run into snow a couple times, but the new car drove through it wonderfully. I really did enjoy our stay with Katt.
Don’t get the wrong idea, I love Rita but Rita is not a snuggly dog. She cannot stand to be held. When I pick her up to take her out, she’s fighting to keep from being held close. She will get up in the chair with Vince but maybe for 10 seconds, and she’s down....
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This morning we were up to a quiet house. Katt was off to work.
Patrick and I started watching Downton Abbey for the first time. Watching the first season. While I was watching it, I worked on my beading.
I’ve mentioned on here before that the last time one of our hens hatched eggs, it was just three roosters . . no girl chickens! You really can’t have more than one rooster unless you have 20+ hens because . . well, they’re men chickens and they have one thing on their mind. Really ....
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We were up early. Kinda hard not to when we are sleeping on an air mattress. When one moves the whole bed moves. Patrick moves a lot, so just trying to stay in bed gets interesting.
We all worked together to get a Thanksgiving feast. In between time we played games. Patrick won most, so we told him we were being nice and letting him win since he retired.
We had an awesome meal around 1 pm. The rest of the afternoon we played games or watched TV. I sat at the table beading.
We didn't get much sleep last night. Harley was having a fit at the doir. We thought he was trying to get in the room. Nope, when Patrick got up at 7 am. He found Harley looking up at him wanting to get out. Shame we didn't figure that out at 2 am!
Patrick and got going on the preps for tomorrow. Then went to the store for a few things. Katt called us as we were shopping. Came ba k and they watched TV while I worked on my beading.
What a year it’s been here at the Kramer house! Even in our sorrows, there have been so many blessings.
In January my husband of 32 years was diagnosed with lung cancer. He lived 129 days after the day of his diagnosis. Unbelievable, right?? It sure was unbelievable for all of us.
During that time, so many good things happened even in the hardness of it all…Gannon was born.
Georgia was born…
We found out that this girl is having a baby…our Kayla…and it’s boy. We have less than TWO months to wait.
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