Thursday, October 12, 2006
Thursday Thirteen
1. Guppy and Storm are going to Kentucky today for Stormii's grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary.
2. I just finished a counted cross stitch picture for them. Now I just have to frame it, wrap it, and get it to Stormii so she can take it with her.
3. I HATE counted cross stitch. I get totally lost between the chart and the picture. I always end up just making up part of it.
4. No one ever knows that every little bitty teenie weenie square is not the exact color it's supposed to be.
5. This picture has cost me a lot of sleep. I've been getting up in the middle of the night to work on it.
6. I am so glad to be done with it so I can get to the next project that will keep me up in the middle of the night!
7. When I get a spare moment, I run outside and pick pecans off the ground.
8. We have 7 huge, bearing pecan trees. Some years we get about 1000 pounds of pecans.
9. Looks like this is a thousand-pound year.
10. People start asking around August how the pecan crop is.
11. Funny, most of the people who want pecans never offer to come gather their own.
12. The Professor's son and DIL picked all the pecans that had fallen last weekend. Yesterday I picked up two bags full. That many had fallen in just 3 days.
13. To look at the trees, you would never know that any pecans had fallen. I have a lot of work ahead of me!
2. I just finished a counted cross stitch picture for them. Now I just have to frame it, wrap it, and get it to Stormii so she can take it with her.
3. I HATE counted cross stitch. I get totally lost between the chart and the picture. I always end up just making up part of it.
4. No one ever knows that every little bitty teenie weenie square is not the exact color it's supposed to be.
5. This picture has cost me a lot of sleep. I've been getting up in the middle of the night to work on it.
6. I am so glad to be done with it so I can get to the next project that will keep me up in the middle of the night!
7. When I get a spare moment, I run outside and pick pecans off the ground.
8. We have 7 huge, bearing pecan trees. Some years we get about 1000 pounds of pecans.
9. Looks like this is a thousand-pound year.
10. People start asking around August how the pecan crop is.
11. Funny, most of the people who want pecans never offer to come gather their own.
12. The Professor's son and DIL picked all the pecans that had fallen last weekend. Yesterday I picked up two bags full. That many had fallen in just 3 days.
13. To look at the trees, you would never know that any pecans had fallen. I have a lot of work ahead of me!
5 Comments:
i love counted cross stitch, but haven't done it for years. my youngest daughter (age 11) started doing it at school during craft club and has done some beautiful pieces.
Cross stitch is something I have not tried yet. I've done knitting, crocheting, sewing and latch hook, but not cross stitch. Maybe I need to try it.
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I love pecans!!! Love 'em for baking and just plain eating. Wow. Do I ever envy you and your orchard. *color me jealous*...if only to have ONE tree in our yard.
Oh cross stitch, I've never done that. And pro'lly won't ever do it. But oh the work itself is beautiful.
And 50 years------what a glorious life the two musta had. And having of course, they're not done celebrating their marriage I'm sure!!!
It's been quite a while since I've been here, and want to catch up on your latest posts.
Happy Thursday.
I am a bit at a loss when it comes to pecans - I know about pecan pie (from When Harry Met Sally, mostly!); but what else can one use them for?
My mom has two pecan trees in her yard but by the time we get to them the squirrels have eaten them.
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