THE TEMPERATURE BLANKET AND OTHER THINGS

Hello, friends!  Here it is Sunday evening already.  I have no idea where the time flies to.  I have had such a good day, though.

Sunday School today was really good.  Since Pastor and Carolyn are away, Rick took over the teaching time.  He did an excellent job.  I even took notes.  I skipped a few weeks because I've been so tired I just couldn't push myself to get there.  So I was really surprised today at just how much it has changed in just six weeks.  More people are showing up and more people are getting involved in asking and answering questions, making observations, giving opinions.  It is great.

We had a guest speaker in church this morning -- our former pastor, Pastor Wayne.  He is the reason I started going to this church.  I had known him for years and when I was looking for a new church, it was the obvious choice.  What a pleasure to be able to have him in the pulpit this morning.  Every time he preaches, he ends up saying something that just speaks to what I am going through at the moment.  Today was no exception.  Joe wasn't feeling well enough to go with me this morning, but I taped the message so he will hear it tonight.

This afternoon I made scrambled eggs with ham, asparagus and cheese for lunch.  Using up the leftovers.  It was so good!  I will have to make it again.  Now I have a pork roast in the air fryer cooking for dinner.  I am going to make a spinach miso salad to go with it.  Joe and I really love this salad.  It must be popular because it is almost always sold out at our store.

After we ate, we were watching TV and I fell sound asleep.  I haven't been feeling all that great and I think it is the hot weather that is bothering me.  Now don't get me wrong, I love hot weather.  But day after day of 90* plus weather is really getting to me.  There is so much to do around here, but all I want to do is sleep.

We have been watching some great stuff on YouTube.  We finished watching a four part series on the Founding Fathers that was from the History Channel.  Then we watched the 1999 PBS series "1900 House."  I had seen it before, but it was new to Joe and we both loved it.  We are also in the middle of the BBC series "The Tudor Monastery Farm."  We love those farm series.  There's several of them.  Today we were watching the PBS series "1940s House."  Of course I have to watch it again since I slept through most of it.

I am completely caught up on my temperature blanket.  And let me tell you it is not easy to work on in the summer.  But since I do just one row a day which takes me 10-15 minutes to do, it's not that bad.  So I took some pictures this morning to show you.

Here is May:

The purple is the 60* weather.  Won't see that for awhile.  The pink is 70*, the yellow is 80* and the one orange stripe is 90*.

Here is June:

There are a few rows of pink, but lots of yellow and orange.  What a difference!

And here is the entire blanket -- half finished.

At first I didn't like it because I had used pastels in the past and this was so bright.  But now I love it just because of the colors.  I think getting the red, pink, yellow and orange in made all the difference.

And now I smell my dinner so I will get off of here and see how it is going.  Hope you all have a nice evening.  I am reading your blogs even if I don't comment.  Sometimes I am just too tired.

Kathy

THE TEMPERATURE BLANKET

Hello, friends!  Just a quick post to show you the latest on my Temperature Blanket.  I have it up to date as of yesterday.  Since I do the high temperatures of each day, I have to wait until the next day and then go to accuweather.com to see what the high was.

Here is the entire thing so far.

No more dark blue and navy colors.  A lot more purple, red and hot pink.  I like that.

Here is the section for March.  You can see the little dotted lines where the month begins and ends.  The red at the top is April.

Here I am three months in and I am still not sure I like the colors.  But I am not changing them at this point.  It still may look like a sunset by the time I am done.

Hope you all have a wonderful evening.  Come back tomorrow for a look at my garden.

Kathy

KNITTING & OTHER THINGS

Hello, friends!  Sorry I haven't been around for awhile.  I am so busy here that I haven't been on here or facebook lately.  I guess there are just some times of your life where doing is more important than writing.  I haven't even been reading, so I will try to correct at least some of that today.  You all know blogging takes time and that is something I don't have right now.

First off today I want to share my knitting.  I told you I have a torn tendon in my left hand and so the knitting has gone very s-l-o-w-l-y!  At times I would do 10 stitches and that would be it for the day.  But I persevered and finally finished my temperature blanket for 2018.  I really love it.

You can see we had a long and hot summer by all the yellow, pink and red stripes.

It is about 7 feet long (213.36 cm) and 4 feet wide (122 cm).  It fits the top of the full sized bed that Joe and I have.  It's very different looking than last year's blanket -- the 2017 one.  I use this one all the time.  It is light but very warm.  And it washes up great.

I want to put the year on each of these somewhere but haven't figured it out yet.  I have started 2019's blanket.  It is completely different than anything I've done before and I'm excited to be doing it.  I will show you at the end of the month how it is going.

I also have been working on my Advent scarf.  You knew I wouldn't have time to do it for Advent didn't you?  I got four sections finished before I hurt my hand.  It has been just a few days where I can do a row or two and then I have to stop.  Some days I don't work on it at all.  It is going to take a long time to finish it, but it is very pretty.  Let me show you the four sections I have finished.

The sections look to me like Christmas trees, reindeer antlers, Christmas lights and a warm cozy sweater.  But maybe it's just me.  In fact, I didn't see it myself until Carolyn pointed it out to me.  I know I have messed up the next section, but I am not tearing it out, just going on.  This is just for me so it doesn't matter to me.  If I do another one to give away (which I might next year), then I'll make sure it is perfect.

Yesterday I had my six-month check up with my oncologist.  Things are looking good.  A couple of things I need to keep an eye on, but all in all good.

When we got out of the appointment Joe took me to Yamato Japanese restaurant for lunch.  I had my very favorite Sunshine sushi.  I love that they have vegan sushi.  It's made of fried sweet potato, avocado and mango with a slice of mango and sweet mango sauce on top.  So good!  This is the only place I can get it.  What a treat! It is the third time this week that I have had sushi and this was by far the best.

We have had some beautiful days lately. This was the sunrise on Wednesday the 9th...

And the sunrise over Penn's Landing yesterday, Thursday the 10th.

This is the Delaware River.  New Jersey is on the right hand side.  The Walt Whitman Bridge spans the river.  I live in the upper middle part of the picture way in the back.  It is only four blocks from my house to the river.

The temperature is dropping dramatically over the next few days and we are expecting an inch of snow over Saturday night and into Sunday morning.  Well, it is winter so I guess I have to expect something.

I'm still taking Christmas down and trying to make the house look like winter.  It's a task.  Trying to pick things up too and get rid of stuff.  We have two big cans of recycling to put out for pick up this morning.  And several bags of trash.  I'm doing my best to downsize.  We want to move in the next year or two at most and the less we have, the better.

I need to get off of here and get some breakfast so I can start my day.  Another day with lots to do.  Hope you all have a fantastic day.

Kathy