August Cupbordscape

Hello friends.

Today's cupboardscape 

Am leaning into Fall.

With the colors of blue and yellow.

A wonderful oval hooked rug.

This is my favorite blue and white quilt.

This yelllowware bowl is a vintage one.

While this one is an antique.

Getting into Fall mood.

In other news,

the million dollar answer to why

my mom cannot walk is not something we know.

I even asked her why cant you walk,

you only broke your shoulder?

My guess is her brain is not telling

her she can walk.

Or maybe she is afraid of falling again.

None of us know the answer...

wish we did.

Mikayla is staying on campus.

To bring her car would have cost 

her way too much to keep her car there.

Maybe in a few years if she gets into

a rental house she might bring her car...

but not now.

Pam I tried to follow you,

however for some reason Bloglovin

is giving me issues...just like Blogger at times.

I will continue to try as I would like to get

to know another fellow Michigander who blogs.

Well off to see my mom.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

Autumn Is A Coming Blessings To All!

Janice

The Graduate

 Good morning friends,

In the midst of dealing with my mom's

latest health issue,

Bob and I attended my sweet granddaughters

graduation party last Sunday.

Congratulations to Mikayla.

Here she is in her cap and gown.

School colors are red and white.

At graduation the girls wore white,

while the boys wore red.

Am not sure why she decided to add

tint to her hair that day.

I told her she should have done it in 

a red though to match her school colors.

One of her baby pictures on the left.

One of the many awards she received.

Her school name was Chippewa Valley.

My daughter decided to add the college colors

she will be attending for the dessert table.

Michigan State University.

I took this picture way before all of

 the desserts were put out.

Proud mom (Michele) my daughter

on the right.

Mikayla on the left.

Mikayla reports to Michigan State University

on August 19th.

In other news,

My mom had an orthopedic appointment 

yesterday morning.

I met the courtesy van there.

The doctor told her that at a minimum 

her shoulder will take 3 months to heal.

It also may never heal.

Her only other option would be to do

shoulder replacement surgery.

However the doctor did not recommend

this at all because of my mom's age.

She still cannot walk.

In therapy they are just having her ride a bike

and having her stand with assistance

for a few minutes.

Am hoping she is able to walk...

otherwise us kids will have to make some decisions.

We finally got our new privacy fence yesterday too.

Will need to take a pic of it at some point.

Bob also celebrated his birthday yesterday.

We went out for dinner after I was done working. 

Ate outside at this restaurant along our river.

There was a nice breeze and it was not hot at all.

It was also very hazy all day 

due to the Canadian wildfires again.

Am hoping it goes away today.

Well off to work.

Hope everyone is enjoying

 their August weather thus far.

Post Graduation Blessings To all!

Janice

Friday Finish

July is over.

August has arrived.

I have not one, but two finishes.

YAY

Just not fully finished.

 

Patriotic Pinwheel Parade.

The bunnies will be made into a pillow

for next July 4th.

Anyone who has been following

my blog for awhile....

knows I love BUNNIES.

These bunnies are so adorable.

That flag was a beast to stitch though.

Then I finished Blueskin.

Blueskin was George Washington's horse.

I changed my floss colors for this one.

Looking at this photo, I will need

to do a backstitch around him now.

So looks like this one is not really finished now.

Once I finish Nelson,

George Washington's other horse,

I will get them both framed.

Would like these to also be finished and framed

by next July 4th.

Now my next dilemma.

I ordered more fabric to stitch Nelson

for next year.

The one on the left if the one I just purchased.

(looks like a grayish tan)

One on the right is the one I stitched Blueskin on.

(greenish tan hue)

Notice the difference.

Looks like the dye lot changed.

UGH

Now I am hoping I left myself enough

room on the first fabric to stitch Nelson.

***note to self***

Order enough damn fabric all at once if you

are going to stitch more than one pattern.

In other news,

my mom was transferred to a rehab

facility now.

She started therapy to walk again.

According to the therapist she 

had a good first day.

She was released from the hospital 

on Wednesday and all her vitals

were back to normal.

It will still take about 2 months

for her shoulder to heal.

We are all hoping she will walk again.

Also grandson Michael is still not

able to go back to work.

He was able to get the boot removed now.

His toes have healed.

Now he is wearing a back brace for

the herniated disc.

His doctor does not want to do surgery.

Is hoping this will heal on its own.

He will also need therapy as well.

My son's 41st birthday was yesterday.

He is coming to our house tomorrow

afternoon to go swimming in the river.

We will have a bbq later and possibly a bonfire.

Will go visit my mom in the morning.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

August Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Moving Day

 Hello friends!

So before I decided to decorate

for July 4th...which by the way

is still up.

I asked Bob to move this cabinet

from the kitchen to here.

Any eagle eyes out there will notice 

this was where I did my Cupboardscape displays.

Since all of the furniture in here is blue,

I thought it would be best to move it.

Now for the rest of the story...

pictures of the other side of our

keeping room.

Hope you enjoyed.

In other news,

Thursday around lunch I received

a call from the EMS from my mom's town.

Brian called from my mom's phone

to inform me she fell and possibly 

broke her shoulder.

They were transporting her to the hospital.

He asked where I lived and I told him,

I was a half hour from where they were

taking her.

I called my boss and immediately drove

to the hospital.

It is halfway from my house and hers.

I did beat the ambulance though.

She did break her right shoulder.

She is right handed.

She fell in her garage trying to clean

up after weeding her dahlias.

I then asked if they could do a scan

on her head along with the xray on

her shoulder.

They did and it came out negative.

My brother arrived around around 3.

My sister was in Phoenix.

They discharged her at 6:30.

Put her arm in a sling and I needed

then to take her to an orthopedic surgeon

the following morning to determine

if she required surgery.

They thought at the time it would just 

be a 6-8 week timeframe to heal

on its own because of where she broke it.

She would also need therapy.

We drove right to her house to pick up clothes,

and everything needed as she would

be staying at our house for the duration.

On the way back to my house I stopped

to get her a shake she wanted.

Well the next morning,

she was so weak she could not even walk.

I called the ambulance and they took

her back to the hospital.

They did more tests.

Her hemoglobin was 5.7 and normally

it should be between 13 to 15.

They gave her a blood transfusion.

Did another scan of her head.

Again came out negative.

Friday night she needed oxygen.

They took it off when she woke back up.

Her blood level was back down to 7.

She was bleeding or not producing red blood cells.

They are now opting on doing a scope down

her throat and a colonoscopy.

My sister does not want her to do either

because of her age.

My brother and I said it should be her decision

since she is of sound mind. 

Saturday and Sunday her vitals remained good.

She ate all of her meals and

went to the bathroom with the help

of the staff.

Her blood level remains at an 8.

Still need answers,

Am headed back to the hospital in a little bit.

Please say a wee prayer for my mom if you can.

Thank you.

Monday Blessings To All!

Janice

I Love This Month

Hello Friends.

I love this month.

I so love being Patriotic.

Hope you enjoy more red, white and blue.

In other news,

Mary from Windy Meadow Farms

asked me about my thought on seances.

I oppose them.

Would NEVER want one performed 

in my home or business.

Carla from The River

asked how we got the paranormal to

want to visit our store.

The person who formed this group

came to Bob and simply asked

if his team could come in and

do their thing.

Bob agreed.

We did not give them any information.

We wanted to know if they could

really tune into our ghosts.

They did not disappoint.

Cathy from Acorn Hollow

said she sometimes smells cigarette smoke

in her home.

The day my dad passed away,

my mom and my kids went shopping 

the next day to get a nice suit for my son.

Everywhere we went that day.

I could smell the Old Spice he always wore.

I mentioned it when we got home that evening.

Both my mom and my kids said they smelled it too.

Coincidence???

Mary from Hill Top Post

made me chuckle at her response.

She never believed in ghosts,

but her intentions when she leaves this world

is to become one.

Thank you everyone for your comments.

I so loved reading each and every one.

So lately driving to work in the mornings,

I decided to count the number of trucks

going back towards my small town

in the first half hour of my drive

that were heading out fishing.

The average for the week was 12.

Am sure there were more, but

that's what I counted on my way to work

in that timeframe.

Monday I decided to count how many bridges

I had to cross on my way to work.

The little things I do in my hour travel.

Well I went over 10 creeks & 2 rivers.

12 bridges in total.

Tuesday evening I decided to finally 

go out on my dock.

Have not stepped foot on it since 2019.

Why would I not go out with this beautiful view?

Stupid me. I know.

This is the view looking up river.

Looking downriver.

Finally across the river.

This is Canada.

Unfortunately no freighters to be seen.

I told Bob I am going to try and make a point

to go out once a week now.

It felt nice.

Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary.

This is our 16th year.

It was a second marriage for us both,

but my how the time has flown by.

Must get to work now.

Summer Time Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Sunday Start

 Happy Sunday to all my friends.

Well I decided to start another sampler.

this one is called

Feniscowles Hall 

by Heartstring Samplery.

This one will be a tribute to my

paternal grandparents and their parents.

Am not a green person...but something about

this grass drew me in to this pattern.

The entire sampler will be 

my own color conversion.

Will not do the verse first, but instead

add in the alphabet and numbers

which were included in this pattern.

 

For the upper row and alphabet,

these are the colors I chose.

Dublin Bay- Alphabet

Kudtzu- Vine

Old Red Paint- Red Leaves.

Now to be fair,

the red leaves are also in the pattern...

I just changed to a different red I had on hand.

My one day start.

This is the width.

I also decided that from now until the first

day of Autumn, I am going to just rotate

stitching on my three current samplers.

Those are Antique Birds and Angel,

Sarah Casey Unwin, and this one.

Am calling it my Sampler Summer Stitching.

In other news,

last night we had a paranormal group

come into our antique store.

They let Bob and I ask questions.

I talked twice to our one ghost visitor

whom we know was in the Civil War.

His name is Roger.

I was not able to find out which side he was on.

Did find out he was shot and lost his leg.

He was in much pain.

He is in an area of our store 

where our own antiques are.

Bob and I have pinpointed the object

he may be attached to.

One of the many whiskey jugs

or a creamy white cabinet.

Either way, we knew he was here even

before the paranormal group came in.

We also knew of the one man who 

resides in our military section of the store.

This ghost bothers me.

I told him last night he better get along

with me because I will be working here soon.

Yes I do sometimes talk with our ghosts.

Bob says Good Morning to them every

day he works.

We also have a child in there.

She likes to play.

The paranormal group was not able

to make contact with her last night.

It is possible she has moved on.

Our Victorian lady has also

moved on.

We think she was attached to the

Victorian furniture that was sold now.

She never bothered anyone.

We also have one more ghost

up in our attic. 

She is the only entity we think

will remain with the building.

We  do not know anything about her. 

They were not able to get anything on

her last night either.

Some may not believe in ghosts,

but we do.

We catch orbs on our store cameras.

We have seen shadows throughout

the 15 years we have been in business.

We both have felt cold spots.

Bob has heard voices.

Any hoot,

if you happen to have a ghost story,

please share.

Hope you have a great Sunday.

I will be back to cross stitching.

Was able to create a few items

for the store.

Not much, but will continue to create things

for the store on Saturdays.

Next year I will have more time.

Unfortunately back to work tomorrow.

Vacation is over. UGH

Summer Sampler Blessings To All!

Janice