Books Read March 2024

My reading is a daily habit. At least 10 to 15 minutes on my Kindle each night before bed. Somtimes I read while eating breakfast or lunch. In January I read 5 books but remember that included lots of travel time with nothing to do but read. In February I read 3 books and in March just two.

• The Watson Girl: An absolutely addictive and pulse racing crime thriller (Tess Winnett) by Leslie Wolfe. I've remarked on this before and I do so here again, why do writers feel the need to write a paragraph long, ok I exaggerate, subtitle to their books. It does not add a thing to my willingness to choose or not choose my next book and it is irritating! 
• The Antagonists by Ernest K. Gann

That's it for the month of March. We'll see how April goes.

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Jim's Lasered Gifts

Learning the ins and outs of the laser machine software seems to be both rewarding and frustrating for Jim. I currently have 2 gifts that show some of the progress made. The very first was my slate "Navy Wife" coaster and the second was a keychain with my name on one side and a hibiscus flower on the other. I love them both.

I have waited such a long time for this man to get a hobby. I am determined to encourage this in every way possible. I thanked him enthusiastically. I also have made a silent pledge to myself to ever do to him but has been done to me and maybe to you too. Have you ever shown someone a handmade creation and they proceeded to tell you how you could have made it better. Choose a different color, size it differently, and on and on? I hate to say it but my mother did that to me all the time. I also heard from her "I saw this and you should make it too.". If like me, you have a very creative brain, I am sure you have a back catalogue of ideas, enough to last the rest of your life. Is it just me? 

Anyway, I will be encouraging each and every step of the way along his creative journey and never tell him how to do anything. This is not my hobby and I desperately want him to enjoy it.

I did choose my flower because I was asked to pick one, but he did all the rest.

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10 Years Ago Today

Just a short and simple post today. 10 years ago today I was at my mother's house. I took a couple pictures in her garden. My guess is that I was there with my daughter and her children during their spring break. I only know from my search on google photos that I took these pictures.

Do you know what you were doing 10 years ago today?

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Eat the Cake First

There is a fun place in Apache Junction that encourages you to eat the cake first since life is short. We will be going there 2 times this week. Dinner there isn't bad either considering they are serving a fixed dinner to a couple hundred people at a time. We are going twice this week because we bought 4 tickets to Barleen's Dinner Show earlier this year. The plan was to bring guests that we were looking forward to spending a few days with. That plan fell apart when I managed to get a case of Covid, again. That makes 3 times, dammit. 

Anyway, we kept putting off using the tickets, as procrastinators tend to do thinking there is always tomorrow, and their season ends in April. The best we could do this close to the end of their year and see different shows since no one is around right now to use the other 2 tickets is this Friday and Saturday nights. On Friday we will see what is called the Season's Best Show and on Saturday we will see Rockin' and Rollin' Through the Years. It should be fun.

In other news around here, Jim is making progress on learning how to use his laser. I am so happy this guy has found a hobby to putter with. It makes me happy because it makes him happy. 

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Upstairs Knitting

Yesterday I shared my downstairs, easy on the brain, TV watching knitting project. Today I am showing of my upstairs, I have to concentrate project. This is the Seraphina Afghan from Herrschner's.

I am getting more comfortable with it now that I have gone through a couple repeats of the first section of the pattern but it still needs to be an upstairs project. This one is for me and I have a place planned for it to be in my home. I'll share that here later when I am ready to show it off in its new room. Not much else new around here. What's up with you?

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New TV Knitting to Share

I have started a new project for fairly easy TV watching knitting. I work on these types of projects typically after dinner while watching something with Jim. I could also call projects like this one downstairs knitting because my upstairs projects are the ones that need more attention and I do that better upstairs alone in my craft room or the family room that Jim rarely uses.

This pattern is the Sunny Baby Blanket and is a free pattern that I have made a few times. You can find it by clicking here. It is all knits and purls and easy to do. I bought the yarn on sale at Joann's and also have red and gray waiting to be made in this pattern. I have some more delicate patterns planned too. One of those will be white for a christening or baptism blanket and another in pink for a new little lady. I'll share those later.

I worked on this last night while we watched "Mending the Line" on Netflix. Such a good movie! We both loved it!

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It's Done and I Learned Some Things

My TV watching knitting of a hat is complete. I learned a couple things with this project. First, I learned that I need more practice with the Italian Cast On. It looks sloppy to me, and I don't like that. 

The second thing I learned was how to use my pom pom maker gadgets. Mine is from Clover and I have two sizes. I found a YouTube video to show me how useful this is. Is there anything you can't learn from a YouTube video. The wonderful world of creators on there seem to have answers to everything.

The third thing I learned to that that last inch or so of plain stockinette seems to take forever and I was more than ready to start the decreases for the top of the hat. I do like this hat and may just keep it for myself since it was a bit of an experiment and doesn't look as presentable as I would like for a sale item.

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