I think my stitching slump is over.  Here is progress on Day.  It feels good to be back stitching.  I am still slowly cleaning out the clutter of my house.  I am still trying to walk 3 miles a day.  Now that it is rainy and colder I will try to walk on the treadmill at work.  I have lost 5lbs so far and do not want to lose that progress.

Here is a picture of a toad I found while walking last week.  I took it with my new blackberry that work provided all of us.  I now have to take calls and stay up on my e-mail when I am not in the office.  But I can also use it for personal use.  Since I did not have a cell phone it is nice to have.

 Well again not much stitching was done this week.  I just can't seem to get motivated.  This week I should be working on my new start HAED but I am just not feeling it.

I have been cleaning my house still.  I found an old video tape - Pure Country with George Strait.  I think I will watch it sometime soon and then move it out of the house.

With the beautiful weather we have been having I have been walking 3 miles a day - one at lunch and two after supper.  This has resulted in losing 3lbs.  Any weight loss is a good loss.

 Not much stitching was done this past week.  Still in a slump. But I have been busy.

 I finally called to get my dryer vent cleaned.  I have not had a working dryer in 6 years.  That meant I had to clean out my laundry room.  I threw a bunch of stuff away.

Organized the rest.  Scrubbed the floors and walls.  Saturday I did laundry in my new/clean room for the first time - start to finish.  I usually just washed my clothes at home, hung them out to dry in the summer and then hit the laundramat in the evening to dry what was left.  Since I am on a cleaning roll, I have also begun to clean my kitchen.  I filled my garbage can again yesterday so no more throwing out until after Wednesday - garbage day.

It is supposed to be nice out today so I will be mowing the lawn and working outside.  I am just too restless to sit and stitch.

 Progress on Autumn Angel as of 9/24/11.  I am in a stitching slump and have barely picked up my needle.

 Progress on Day as of 9/17/11.  Again not much progress.

And here is my daughter and her fiance.  I visited them at college this past Saturday.  They are looking at picking a date in 2013.

My computer at home has been broke for 3 weeks now.  So I am posting from work. (shhh don't tell).

TUSAL

Not as many orts as usual as I have hit a stitching slump.

 Instead of starting my HAED this rotation, I started and finished Pray Often from Cross Country Stitching August 2011.  I started this on 9/4/11 and finished it yesterday 9/10/11.    Most of my projects are large/long term that it is nice to do a small one every once in a while.

On Saturdays, my sister and I often go for a walk around my Dad's neighborhood.  Yesterday the weather was nice and off we went.  We passed a house having a garage sale and it looked like they did not have the usual stuff (clothes, kids toys etc).  So we stopped to have a look.  They had a huge collection of teddy bear figurines, frog figurines and different craft items.  I bought these scroll rods and floss box for $2.50.  Couldn't pass it up.  I didn't buy any more frogs as I am running out of room to put them.  Now I can have even more projects going on scroll rods.  I plan on buying the velcro to put on the rods and material so I don't have to try and put the material thru the splits.

I have been up watching the 9/11 memorial services on CNN.  There are no words to express the emotions this brings back.

I have been working on the backstitching on Freight Train.  I have finished 3 cars and have 3 to go.  The end is in site.  Hopefully next time it is up in my rotation.

I did start a new project on Sunday and hope to finish it by this Saturday.  I picked something small as most of my wips are large.