Spring in January & This & That

  Good morning, This week we are in the '50's F, with sunshine-so feels like a spring day for sure. Good to see the sun especially and the pretty blue lake-reflecting from the sky. I was not able to see the wolf moon do to clouds-til last night.

   Yesteray my friends helped me get my car to the auto shop. It charged up pretty fast and then I drove it there with my friend following. She dropped me off at the local family grocery store while she went to the bank. I was so happy to see good produce there, I think the new managment has really improved this section of the store-which is what I needed to shop for.

  Larry has my brand new computer up and running-happy dance!!. The cables that hooked up the monitor were no good, so we swapped those out with some we had-and it is running perfect now. Wow what a difference for sure-I can see colors haha 

   One of the things I have missed is doing puzzles over on Jigsaw Planet-when I can't sleep I always enjoyed those puzzles-just completed one with wolves in a winter setting.. The only thing I lost on my old computer were my photos Didn't think to ask Larry if he knew how to save those-but no big deal really. On Facebook I have photos of Calico kitty and Nikita.

  Larry can get into his wheelchair pretty easily now, trying to stand and walk is still a huge challenge and it brings back lots of pain as well.  The physical therapist is coming twice a week now, and another day the occupational therapist comes as well. Three days a week really tires him out allot-but he keeps pushing forward.

  I am still not getting good sleep every night,  So, I am doing lots more reading. I found a new to me author I like-Ciara Knight, she writes contemporary stories about love, family, friends and community. I rarely read contempary stories but I am really enjoying this author. Her Sweetwater series is very good.

  I haven't been able to get into my craft projects, so I dug out my coloring books that I had bought several years ago. I really like Crayola's books as the pages are set up to tear out too. I have those two books completed now and will use them for my slow mail writing papers. I am using coloring pencils-which I have allot of . When I visited Yellowstone Park I bought a coloring book which I am working on again now. I had one more coloring book, that I don't care for and the pages are difficult to tear out-which I did get accomplished-Am not going to color these pages but will use also them for writing papers.  Sooo I feel like I will have this project crossed off my to do list-which is a good thing. Hoping I can get back to my quilt I am tying-have been too tired to concentrate on that.'

 Last week I was cooking something that I needed a bay leaf for-and I was out-I usually don't run out of things like this. Decided to check out Amazon and Ebay to see what was available and compare prices. On Ebay I found a seller from California that was harvesting and selling his own bay leaves.  They were 20 large fresh bay leaves, free shipping for just under $10.00 I am very happy with this find. I laid them out on parchment paper to dry and then bagged them up

  This year I am hoping to tackle projects that I already had started and  get those completed-and not start anything brand new, as I tend to jump around allot-which I do enjoy doing-just need to Not get side tracked with another new project this year.

    I did get the new to me mordant in the mail and will test that out on the cotton soon that didn't take up any of  the coffee dye color. I did wash it in soap after-but will wash one more time and then try this new mordant-it sounds much easier to work with too and will work on both cotton and wool fibers which is something really new to me for mordants.

   I have never fried chicken-ever, and Larry loves it. Thinking of surprising him soon. I will need to watch a you tube video on how to cut up a whole chicken-which I should know how to do as my Mom always did that-but I was never "in" to learning that.  Also, I have no clue on how to make fried chicken-so if any of you have a good recipe or how to tips please share. Thanks

Have an awesome week everyone

Update: Larry was able to walk with the walker late this afternoon-with his therapist today-good to see a big smile on his face-"and I am not staying in that wheel chair"