It’s MONDAY

 Blogger is getting harder and harder for me to sign into. One of these days I’m not going to be able to get in here. Any way I’m here now so I might as well make a post. 

So what have I been up to to. I’m still managing to crochet even with my numb fingers, so my table runn er is coming along nicely.

I am really liking the look of it. Considering I was given the cotton it’s turning into a lovely freebie.

I will try knitting one of these days. I know I’m repeating myself. It’s an easy thing to do when nothing much new happens in your life.

I do know there are some things on my wish list that I hope to do again one of these days. Ok I’ll share the wish list. I know you are sleepless with wondering what more could she want??? Well here is the list….

I want to rock a baby to sleep. I just love doing that, holding that precious bundle as they melt bonelessly into your chest, completely trusting that you will keep them safe, free from harm. It’s the best.

I want to sit in a bath, up to my neck in hot scented water and stay there until I have completely shrivelled into a prune from head to toe.

I want to eat fish and chips in Ireland one more time.

I have never done this but I want to, I want to take a rv and go on a long extended trip across country.

I want to take my own car and go for a drive.

I want to sleep in my own bed in my own room

I want to hold a needle and quilt a quilt

I want to take a trip where I have to go by plane

And mostly at the moment I would like to sleep for more than two hours at a stretch.

There is probably more but right now that’s the big list. It’s not a big ask is it??

Toodles Linda 

Bit of this, bit of that

 I have decided to get better at posting on here so this is me giving it a whirl. As usual I don’t have a lot to say but I thought I would get out some random thoughts , some positive and some not , just to say I’ve blogged. Here we go…….

Does it bother anyone else but me that some charities will send out over sized, custom printed solicitations stuffed with free gifts? I mean if you have all that money would it not be better served using it toward the charity? 

Feeling a little jealous these days, everyone has been holidaying, to the far east, to the states, to Europe, I have walked to the kitchen and to the bathroom.

I have been working on keeping my blood sugars down, eating healthier and doing more excersize. Slow and steady I have been gaining ground. I think I’m loosing weight as I have just realized my bra is not digging into me any more. I am taking this all as a win on my behalf.

The banker is steadfast in making her weekly visits and lately we have been cooking meals for me but currently we have been working on the disaster area which is my craft room. Progress is slow because I can only sit on a hard chair for so long but it’s progress none the less.

We got a good start on it at least. It’s my room of shame. It’s an easy place to dump things one does not know what to do with.

I have ordered a bunch on pictures for scrapbooking, I have fallen way behind on my scrapbooks and I am determined to get caught up again. I want to use all my new die cuts. So I got my pictures and yesterday I go them all sorted and put into months so once I get going it will be easy to do. I also want to make an index of all my die cuts. 

I have a couple of kitting project I want to do. I can’t wait for my carpel tunnel thing to go away so I’m going to knit in spite of it. I also have a crochet project it want to keep doing. I don’t think I can quilt but dang it I have to do something or I’m going to go completely mad.

Well I think that is it for now. Hopefully I will be back again soon.

Toodles, Linda 

The last four months

 It has been the best

It has been the worst

I’ve cried, I’ve raged

I’ve accepted, I’ve cursed

I’ve gone back to square one

Time and again

But I really thought

This time was an end

Not so, just a knock back

Just another over the last four years

My world gets even smaller

It will never end, my deepest fears

Thanks to my family

And all my good friends

I’m just bent but not broken

This is NOT how it ends.

spring is in the air

 Just sitting here looking out at the sun shine and thinking soon I shall be able to sit on the veranda and have my coffee of a morning. I love love love to do that. My veranda is my most favourite place in the world.

Something I have noticed lately about myself is I’m making plans, something I have not done in a very long time. Plans for crafty things, plans for changes in the house,  lots of these plans with never be more than daydreams but the fact that I am doing this again is a giant leap forward in my mental health. It’s a sign to me that I am getting on top of my depression. Oh happy day,

I have started to make a tray cloth for my walker. I’m stitching it all by hand while it sit and listen to the tv. It just needs to get quilted.

Then that spurred me on to come up with the brilliant plan to recover some pouches I use to store my tools I need for scrapbooking. I originally made the pouches using material I had but it was not the cutest, personally I think they are ugly. So I am going to slip cover them. I have one done

Then I ordered up this little guy to knit. I think he is so cute. He is for me, I’m having my second childhood. I bought a teddy bear at Christmas, the house hippo after that and now Mr Bunny Rabbit. 

Yesterday, the banker was here for our usual coffee date, she helped me and we set up a spot for me to scrapbook. When I say she helped my I mean I thought where everything should go and she did the actual moving. I have a new big shot die cutter that I can not wait to try out. I’m behind on my scrapbooking so this afternoon, between loads of laundry I will give it a go. My head is full of page layouts. 

I’m still working on the baby blanket, it’s going to use up the last of the pink yarn I was given. 

 

I also feel so much more like my old self, I’m not lost in a fog where so many simple things feel so overwhelming. It’s like doing out of a long tunnel and into the light. I’m not going to say I’ll never have a bout of depression again, but for now I’m happier than I have been in ages. I fell more like me and I like this me. 

 Toodles Linda 

Not as expected

 Today is not quite going according to plan. It started out right but I have gotten derailed. Let me catch you up, the morning started out on plan. I woke,  made my to do list, had home care come and go and then I got started on the list. Job one I took down the decorations that I had put up for Friday.

I had the No Cooks to my house for a little St.Patrick’s Day supper. We ordered in Chinese food and played trivia, just basically had a fun filled evening. Lots of laughs and good natured ribbing. I think I should invite them over more often. It does me a world of good to have them around. Plus they bring cookies!

Here is where the train jumped the track. I picked up a book that I had ordered awhile ago but it flitted through my mind, I maybe had bought it before. So I thought I’ll just read a few pages to see if it is the same book. Well 74 pages later I was finally able to get my nose out of it. It’s a very good read so far and no it’s not the same one I thought it was. Derailed! Woman overboard! Doomed!! Well maybe not quite doomed. I have high hopes to at least get a few things off the list before I go to sleep tonight.

I did not plan to blog today but here I am. I also did not plan to sort some paperwork today but I did that as well. I think that counts as much as the list of jobs I made for myself this morning.

I finished the little pink blanket I was knitting. I knit it on my fancy interchangeable knitting needles. I bought these some time ago and tried to knit with them but I could not for the life of me make them stop unscrewing and snagging my yarn. I put/pitched them into a corner and chalked the whole thing up to wasted money. Not the first time I have done that. Well I was watching one of my favourite crafty pod cast “the Crafty Toads” and they were showing how to use the key to tighten the needle tip onto the cord. The heaven’s opened and the angels sang. I found my needles, knit the entire blanket without the things getting unscrewed once! I love them, (the toads) the needles and my finished blanket. I have not blocked it yet, as soon as I do I will take a picture to share.m

I have a list of projects in my head and things in the house already in the queue to be attended to. Days when I am in a funk are not so frequent as they were. I still have blue times but I am hoping with time and with understanding they will lessen and not take over my whole being as they did, there is always hope. You just have to keep moving forewarn as best to can and celebrate the big and the small.

Toodles, Linda 

It’s Friday

 Friday does not have the same appeal as it did when I worked but I still can appreciate the anticipation of the coming weekend. I have currently been deep into my Friday morning routine. This I’d how it goes in my house of a Friday.

I usually laze about until just before home care arrives to do their thing. I get my self organized to face the day just in time for them to arrive. When I see them pull up I submit the order for my guilty weekly   pleasure, my McDonald’s breakfast. It will arrive shortly after the ladies have moved on. While I am munching on breakfast the other deliver shows up. My meals for seniors which contains three meals, salads, buns and a couple of dessert things. You know like cookies, pastries and a square of some sort. I will then indulge in a dessert with my coffee and throughly enjoy it. Once I am stuffed like a tick I will get out my knitting, tune into one of my favourite crafty pod casts “the Crafty Toads “ and I will knit while I listen to their live broadcast. That’s the routine.

Right now I am studiously ignoring the disaster zone that is my kitchen and blogging instead. I will get to it as it very much needs a seeing to.  Right now I am content to be in the living room, looking out at the sunshine glinting off the snow. Mother Nature had a nasty mood swing this past week and decided to give us a winters worth of snow all at once. Girl needs to calm down.

My little knitted blanket is coming along nicely. It’s a lot of stitches because the yarn is so fine but I’m loving working on it. 

I have also finished the little pink fuzzy blanket I was making. I think I will add it to my donate pile, the woman’s shelter can always use blankets.

I went mad this last little while and bought myself a big shot. It’s. a die cutter for scrapbooking. Rather expensive but I got it anyway. I saved for it and I have wanted one for quite some time. 

I feel a solitary scrapbooking event in my future. 

I also bought myself a house hippo. Does  any one remember the house hippo commercial that used to be on tv. YouTube has it if you don’t. I just thought this little guy was too cute and was really cheap. So now she lives with me. Meet Heloise.

Well I guess I should put an end to this blog and think of other things on my list that need my attention. So many things, so little ambition.

Toodles Linda

This and that

 It’s been a busy day so far, well at least busy for me. Home care has been and gone (this maybe be TMI) so I have a new catheter and bag, new wound dressing and am dainty fresh and clean. I have had two deliveries and a text chat with the Banker. In spite of the never ending laundry and the mess that is my kitchen I have been knitting, reading and watching tv until now when it dawned on me I have not blogged for a minute or several.

I’m having a bit of cabin fever these days, been inside for far too long. However I am in no rush to go out because getting about is difficult for me and as the past has proven I usually end up on my butt and the nice 911 guys have to be called to get me up. Not a situation I am thrilled with so I’ll avoid it in the future as much as I possibly can.

No word on my surgery date yet, probably not until mid march. I really will do a happy dance once I get a date. I am thinking of starting a list of all the things I want to do once Eunice has been evicted (Eunice is the name of the curse that my surgery will evict). Oh so many things that I am looking forward to. Getting out and about, driving myself somewhere, sleeping in my bed are just to name a few.

Nothing else to share. House bound does not make for a chatty blog. Hope all is well with the three people that read this. I’m good, I really am, I just like to grump.

Toodles Linda 

slacking again.

 

Every time I think I am going to get back to blogging on a regular basis I fall off the wagon and once again turn into my own worst enemy. Not to mention that when I finally get around to actually sitting down at my keyboard any notion of what I was going to blog about flies right out of my head. I swear these past few years I have not felt like myself. I miss feeling like myself. I have to get back there I just am not sure how I am going to do it

Oh dear, pity party, table for one please! Well I’m not going down that rabbit hole. Let’s see if I can find something else to talk about. Let’s seee, I have done all the testing that was required for my surgery approval, but they moved to goal posts again. Now it’s got to be approved by health services for the province and that answer is at least six weeks away. Crap crap crappity crap. I’m not feeling sorry for myself I am just frustrated that I was not told all this from the beginning. 

I am working on getting the house back in to shape, things got a bit neglected over the holiday season but I’m aware and making the effort to get it back under control. Housework never ends.

I have finished my little baby blanket that I was knitting ,just have to put the edging on it. That’s the last of the three handicrafts I was working on, so now I  can start something new. I have two things in mind but I’m not going to share until I actually have something to show. It’s a secret.

My scrapbooking pals are going to do three days of scrapping next weekend. I,m still not able to go but I think I am going to scrapbook along with them here at home. I am very behind and I want to get caught up. I am mulling over the idea of buying myself a new scrapbooking toy. I have saved up the money for it I just have to convince myself I really need it. Yes I know people don’t think I do that but I do once in awhile.

That’s all I got for now! 

Toodles, Linda

New year and new hopes

 I still have my Christmas decorations up but they are going to come down before the week is over. The fact is I like looking at them and I am in no rush to say good bye to them for another year. I wish I had put the whole deal up this year but when I go to put it away I bet I will be glad I didn’t.

I finished my hexagon stocking, I almost totally pleased with it.

I do not care for the background being so dark. I would like it to be more of an oatmeal colour, whiter is what I am trying to say. I think I will add this one to next years donation basket and make myself another one it the colours I want. I bought the yarn online so you never know for sure what you are going to get.

 

I am also knitting teeny tiny toques to make a garland out of. I think they are so cute. These just need,,j pompoms on them. I need 10 for the garland and currently have five made. I also want to knit myself a big squishy sweater and maybe make a lap quilt. I love that I am getting more and more interested in creating.

I also finished a book today. I have not done that for awhile. So my interest in crafts and reading is coming back to me. That makes me happy.

Toodles, Linda 

Lazy Sunday

 Blue has broken through the silver grey of a perfect winter sky this morning. Sunshine is bouncing off the snow and what first threatened to be a dreary day has turned bright and pleasant. Helps the mood immensely .

I am busy working on a little baby blanket, not for anyone in particular, I was given the yarn and decided to create a blanket. I can donate it when it’s done. I like to do that. I use up unwanted yarn, the shelter benefits and it keeps me busy. It’s a real joy to be interested in doing crafts again. I t was a long time that I was  not interested at all. Getting to be a more normal me. I still have blue days but I didn’t get into this overnight so it will take time to get a handle on it .

I had a moment the other day and bought myself a teddy bear. I have always loved teddy’s and I could not explain why I did it but I did and as a result meet “Ted”. He is deliciously squishy and makes me smile. Am I slipping into my second childhood? Am I just an old lady who is having a flight of fancy? Only time will tell.

Well I need to get back to my knitting. I also have plans to clean out the fridge at some point in the day . I also wish to finish watching the Crown. Busy busy day.

Toddles Linda

This and that

 Random tehoughts about the last month. I need to start making a list of blogging ideas. I t helps me to focus and remember.

On December 1st the.No Cooks came here for supper and coffee. It was so much fun to see them and spend the evening together just like we used to. I miss those Friday night get togethers. I did manage to get a few decorations out and had the house looking festive for the occasion.

There is a lot less decorations this year. Only two trees and a couple of others things. No where near the total house overhaul that I usually do. However I don’t put it all out every year but I think this is the least I have ever done.  Still I was glad to have it out when they were here.

The Banker and I did our yearly Safe and Warm raffle basket. The theme was the little red truck. We raised $505.00 for the shelter. 

We also donated two hampers. This picture is one hamper.

We also sent 48 pairs of men’s socks and 36 pairs of women’s socks. I think we did very well this year. We had sort of decided this year may be our last of doing this but now we think we may give it one more try.

I found some tiny toque ornaments I want to try knitting and some granny square stockings  I want to make. I have ordered up the yarn for the stockings and now I have to find some for the toques. My scrap Afghan depleted my stash of spare yard. It feels so good to be interested in doing things again. I’m not back to normal yet but I’m getting there! 

Toodles, Linda

Random Thoughts

Do you ever wonder how great you are at handling pain? Since we cannot feel what others feel do you ever wonder how much of a wimp you are when it comes to pain or do you have a high pain tolerance. Sometimes I wish we could figure out w way to know this. I would like to feel I’m not a wimp but I suspect I may very well be.

As we all know there is a big push to lesson single use plastics to save the environment. Last time I got groceries I got deli meat, already packaged in plastic, hot dogs, double wrapped in plastic and bananas which have a hardy outer skin that does not need too much protection. All of these items were placed in separate plastic bags and then placed into the paper bag that will save to planet. This makes me shake my head.

Due to some health concerns I have Homecare visit me each day. I am grateful that I live in a country where this privilege is afforded to me and I do not have to hike to the hospital each day for dressing changes. Another thing I am pleased is that when the nurse or the aid gets here and if they are early they will come in and chat for a bit. They could wait outside but they come in. That pleases me.

Currently I am working on going through all the boxes and baskets or bags that I have stuffed full of things and are starting to pile up all over the house. It’s threatening to get out of hand and I need to beat it into submission before that happens. I have done around my chair and am currently working on the dining room table. It feels good to see the progress.

The banker and I did several medical related appointments last week and when we were done we got pumpkin spice lattes and took a drive around town. It was wonderful. I have not been out and about for awhile and it felt so good to be out and see what’s happening around the city. I. Had a lovely time and got aMy favourite flavour of latte to boot.

Well, I think I am going to knit for a bit before I go to sleep.

Toodles, Linda

Catching up on jobs today

 I have ignored some things that need doing around here for some time now. As I am feeling more like my old self these days I have started to show some interest in getting on top of things. It’s been awhile since that has happened so I am taking advantage while I am in the mood.

At the moment I am doing laundry because I do not want that to get out of hand again. So I am cutting it off at the pass and keeping on top of it. The other job I tackled today was sorting the warm weather clothes from the cold weather clothes and thinning the heard by donating some that I do not wear anymore. 

I just have to put the summer things in their tote and this job is done. I have to admit it’s a little personal triumph to get these things looked after. I have been a sad lump for long enough, it feels good to be easing back into the land of the living. 

For quite some time I felt like that old saying of one step forward and two steps back, like there was a road block behind every road block and I just could not win, no matter what I did. Things are looking up and I am feeling much much better.

Right now I am going to go and knit for a bit, then go do some work in the kitchen. One of theses days I will tackle my craft room. That will be a most daunting task.

Toodles Linda

Fall has arrived

 I caved in in the wee hours this morning and turned the furnace on, 3:00am to be precise. I could not take it any more. The house is nice and cozy now and that’s the most important thing. I do love fall but I am not thrilled with what comes after. I like the nip in the air but I delay turning the furnace on because it costs so much to heat the house these days.

I missed blogging last week and I was so sure I would get one done on Tuesday but best laid plans and all that. It has been a busy week. The Banker and I ventured to the big city for me to attend a doctors appointment. I am hoping to get some surgery done and this appointment was to start of the process. I have not made up my mind if I am going to make the details public but my nearest and dearest know what I am talking about.

It was so nice to be out and about. I don’t get out much these days so our little trip was a real adventure. The fact the doctor had good news for me was icing on the cake for sure.

I finally got the mountain of laundry done, now I have to keep on top of the current stuff. I have some crafty things I need to get making and I am currently doing some knitting for myself. I have gotten some personal problems taken care of thanks to family and friends and right now my life is 90% better than it was. Many game changers have taken place and if I could I would dance the drunken monkey dance of joy down the street.

The banker and I put a new seat cushion on my recliner and it makes a world of difference. I need to make an extra cushion cover for it so when one needs to be washed I can cover the cushion. I don’t want to have to sit on foam without some sort of covering. We made a sort of large pillow case so it’s super easy to remove and wash.

A nap is calling my name,

Toodles, Linda

Nearly Missed It

 My goodness here it is Friday already and I have not done my blog post. I need to try and get back into the routine of posting on Tuesday like I used to. The good news is I did manage to remember the blog, not that I have any great big news to share, or even little news for that matter.

The Banker brought me a pumpkin spice latte a while back and it was wonderful. I love pumpkin spice .

I’m having a popsicle for lunch, how fun is that? Strawberry and something else. It’s rather good. I will have something more resembling food later on. I grabbed the popsicle because I was in the laundry room , finally conquering mount laundry that has been dominating this house for far longer that it should have, and I felt I deserved a treat. I really am a bit of a child . I predict that the laundry will be vanquished today. In my head I will be doing the drunken monkey dance of joy.

The trees outside my window have slipped on their prettiest part dresses and a nip has slid into the air. This is my favourite time of year. My coffee (laced with pumpkin spice creamer) and I

sat on the veranda this morning enjoying the autumn newness until home care arrived to do their thing. Lovely ladies who just do the best job.

Well I need to go and change the battery in my smoke alarm or beat it to a pulp. It’s doing that low battery chirp that drives a person crazy. 

Toodles, Linda

Guess Who!!! Yes it’s me!!

 I promised Busy that I would start to blog again and I did that some months ago, not good on the follow up but as I have recently promised to try my best at doing better with my life in general I decided I had better get on this promise. It’s a small thing and I actually enjoy blogging. I just wish I was more interesting.

I have dipped my toe into crafting again and have made a scrap Afghan. I’m trying to upload a picture but my iPad is being cranky about it. I till keep trying. My next foray into the craft realm is going to be a diamond dot painting. I have never done one and I think it’s going to be fun.

I finally had to replace my washing machine. I got the cutest little one off of Amazon. It is awesome. Yes it would be nice if it was bigger but it works wonderfully. I can throw a load in and walk away without it bouncing around the laundry room like a demented frog. It fits in the only space I have to have a washer in my house and it’s plumbed in so I don’t have to drag it to the sink when I want to do laundry. 

I went through a bad depression not long ago but things are on the upswing again. I just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other and stop causing my friends and family concern and upset. That is something I never want to do.

Well the iPad is still being cranky about pictures so maybe next time.

Toodles Linda

I think I got the pictures to work! Go me!!

Food and I

I spend a lot of time thinking and I devote a lot of time to trying to figure out why things are going the way they are. Currently my relationship with food is the topic of choice.

Food and I have a long dysfunctional relationship.  I do want to start out by saying I do not blame my Mom for any of this, I believe with all of my heart that anything that went on between us was done with the genuine intention of helping me. No ill will intended whatsoever no matter what the outcome was. 

I look back a my childhood pictures and I now see a little girl with puppy fat. Maybe she would have outgrown it or maybe it would have stayed had it not become concern. That we will never know because I was put on my first diet when I was 7 or 8 years old. The grapefruit diet. Mom and I did it together. It was with that decision that battle lines were drawn, the food control gauntlet was thrown down and a war that would last for years was begun.

I stayed fat all of life through the determination on my part that I was going to control what I ate. Food was my comfort, my reward, my incentive, my friend and my control. I could always get myself to do something I might not be too keen on with the promise of a food reward. I would willingly cook up something I was craving an not think twice.

This has now changed. When it first started to change I was amazed. It was a totally novel experience and I admit I was enchanted for a brief period, now I would like to know why. What changed you ask? I have lost a great deal of interest in food, Not just some food  almost all food. I can miss meals and not feel deprived. The other day I had ice cream, my total addiction in the past, something I could not stay away from at any point in time, I ate half of it and threw the container out!!!!! WTF I just knew I would not finish it and I had a mild repulsed reaction to the thought of it. 

I have no idea what is up with this. A container of yogurt, some nuts, a chuck of cheese and a bit of fruit is often supper when I remember to eat it. Breakfast is no problem I seem to manage it. My weight does not seem to change, so I have no idea what the heck is going on. I remain a mystery unto myself.

Toodles Linda

I Have no Excuse so lets move on

Yes its been a minute but I plan to be back here more regular in future. So lets forget the gap and move on. I actually have things to talk about for once. Busy and the Carpenter were here and worked like rented mules once again for me. He finished the upstairs bathroom and I have to say it lovely

 I just love it and have had nothing but compliments on it. Busy took a round out of my yard and got it looking like someone actually cares about it.

I really cannot thank them enough for all they have done. She cleaned up the back bed a well and I had planned to get woood chips for it up my next door neighbour asked if he could plant some vegetables in there and I would not have to pay him to mow my lawn. Win win so he is using the space and I don't have to buy wood ships or pay for mowing. Its all good.

I am amazed each year at how quickly the green comes back in  spring. One minute nothing and the next leaves are out and the Hostas and pushing out of the ground. The peonies are reaching for the sun and the birds are singing. Its wonderful. Busy arranged my veranda so I can get my walker down to my bench with no problem so coffee on the veranda is once again a thing at this house. 

Speaking of morning coffee one thing we do when Busy and the Carpenter visit is one of them make coffee first thing in the morning and we sit and chat over a fresh brew to start the day. It is one of my favourite things that we do. Its a nice little ritual to start the day.

Well I need to go do some laundry. 

Toodles, Linda

Surprise ts me!!

 Well winter has been making its presence known this last week, So super cold I opted not to poke my nose out the door. Not even No Cook could tempt me. Thankfully its starting to warm up but we have March to get through and she can be a bit testy.

I really have not  been up to much as usual. I am finally making a effort to work on my endurance and strength. Needless to say I wish there was an easy quick solution for this. Its my own fault I have lost so much mobility and therefore its my job to get it back. So I have started to work at that and while I am not doing a tremendous amount what I am doing is kicking my butt.

Something I have noticed this winter that has me less than impressed is how poorly the handicapped entrances to a fair number of businesses are very poorly maintained. So many automatic doors do not work. The ramp may or may not be cleared. The access is often blocked by a large lump of snow. We were at a restaurant that had a good seven inch high ridge of snow and ice right at the door. Not easy to navigate with a walker or wheelchair. Another place the handicapped parking spot was shoveled but just enough so a car could get in. To get out and get a wheelchair or walker to assist you would have put you in a snowbank. The cleared spot was serviceable for the delivery drivers though, Silver linings. Some places think the ramp should double as a ski jump so the steeper the angle the better. So much fun!! Rant over

I crocheted on the weekend.!! My fingers are so much better I can now get back to the crafting I love so much. This whole last year I have felt bloody useless because I can't do the things I love to do.

Well I have a to do list of 15 things and I have 8 of them done so far. I should get back at it. So far today  I've had yet another fight with my washing machine (it refuses to stay level no matter what I do). It was bouncing around like a demented frog and knocked a brand new container of oxi clean onto the floor. Oh goody yet another mess. First world problems for sure.

I am also once again trying to get the craft room sorted. Its become a dumping ground since I have not been crafting, No pictures as the people who read this blog have seen it before. 

Yes I am still sorting, organizing and purging. It seems to be my favourite thing to do!!

Toodles Linda

 Its been a minute, I have no excuse, lets move on shall we?

So Christmas came and went. I stayed here but was in touch with my family through the holidays. Gotta love modern technology. I even managed to do a bit of decorating for the season

Not my usual extravaganza but It was enough to make me happy. 

January arrived and we could finally say good bye to 2022. It was not my finest year and I had high hopes for 2023. Until I promptly got sick and lost my voice. I am hoping this was the last kick at the cat. I am hoping for up hill from not on.

My fingers are almost better so I am anticipating getting back to quilting soon. I never made one quilt last year. I do not know how to be if I cannot craft. 

I don't have much to pass on, I usually make notes to remind myself so I know what to blog about. I will start to do this again. I plan to get back to blogging regularly in future.

Currently I am working on getting my craft room back into order. It would be right at home on an episode of hoarders and that has to end. The craft room and the kitchen are my weakest spots. 

Anyway, that is all I got

Toodles

Linda