Summer is going away too fast if you ask me.

Well snow is on the forecast for some of the areas around us.

The wind is blowing and it is cold.

But that is a good sign to hang clothes out on the line.

It has been a busy summer.

The District Convention was of course awesome, and what I needed.

I plan to review the notes sometime in the next two weeks for my personal study time.

I think we are going to plan a day to go up and see the aspens color change again this year.

I just do not know where we will be going.

I would like to go in the way of Deckers or another area there, but that ares is the Hayman fire area. That was a few years ago , but not all has grown back yet.

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayman_Fire"

Perhaps not.

My dear husband want to go up the Cripple Creek way. I do not know.

Maybe we can go through Leadville and see my daddy's and brother's graves.

I would like to go that way and come back down through Independence Pass.

"http://forestry.about.com/od/fallcolor/ss/best_fall_spots_8.htm"

Alas... after an hour of discussing the plans, we are going to Leadville via Wilkerson Pass, and coming back that way.

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My husband does not want to go towards Denver via I-70.

We may go up Hiway 6 for a few miles up to Climax area.

This past Monday Hubby and I went to Sam's Club, bought the things we needed/wanted there.

Then we went to Manitou, he drinks the Manitou water almost daily.
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When we pulled up we saw a doe and twin fawns eating in the park where the water is. I only had my cell phone, so the photos won't be all that great. I may get to figuring out how to upload from the phone to the computer, so I can sign them and then find a way to share them.

Of course right now is not the time, because work is waiting for me.

There was another subject I want to start posting about. I am not going to start that in this post. Perhaps tomorrow, or whenever I can blog again

A Good Morning It Is!

Those first two cups of coffee are so delicious.

A shower/bath is something that cannot ever be replaced. It is so refreshing.

I think we take those for granted, at least I do.

I just renewed my library items.

I have a lot I finished with, but there is a lot I haven't finished using.

Like the Spanish CDs, Colorado history books, postcard books and some knitting books.

I found a place that shows how to convert knitting to crochet, so I want to try that with at least one of the knitting lace patterns.

Hmmm, now that I think about it, I did not see that document this morning, when I was sorting baby patterns.

Oh well, if I lost it, I have it printed, I think.

I am going to add an image today, but not one of my own.

I made too many mistakes and this is the correction of them.

I am going to bold the corrections.

Things are changing a lot around the Blog scene.

It took an hour or longer for me to sign in, mainly because it seemed that my blog disappeared.

Oh my, EEEEEEEKS!

I have been busy, like usual.

My sweet husband, has had double pneumonia, and I have had to carry a lot of his load, as well as my own and I just cannot get ahead. That does not include the hours going to and from the doctors. One is anywhere from 30 - 45 minutes one way.

I feel like I am on a time squeeze for a lot of things, that need to get done. The convention is next weekend. I have yard work and house work I would like to get done before the convention.

I guess the yard will have to wait, but the house cannot wait.

We can drive back and forth, so there will be no major packing, at this point. If Don cannot go, I may have to get a hotel, if it is to late to get a ride from someone else.

I cannot drive on my pain meds, if I have to drive, I will not be able to take any of them all day, until I get home. So I am worried about that. Since it is so close to the convention, many people have all the plans made and full cars by now. And I doubt there will be a hotel room in the city we have the convention, because most of the hotels are here in my city. LOL

I will ask tomorrow at the meeting. Then I am going to take a break and get out in service even more tomorrow. Service is a break from so much, and with the invitations work it is a very pleasant time. I get out more often than I have this week, it just has been a crazy week.

It is a busy time for us that is for sure. Besides service, house work and yard work I have been busy getting gifts ready. One is a yard sale swap and I got that sent out today, just on the wire day for last day to be sent.

I still have another baby bootie to crochet and a hat to make for an online shower.

But I already had told everyone that I may not be part of the shower.

I have been so busy that I could not get to my Watchtower to study this week.

It is nearly 10:30 p.m. and it still needs done.


I feel horrible, because that is my favorite thing to study and this week it seems like it is a huge project.


And of course this is the week with a lot of scriptures to think about and meditate on, so my mind will be busy till midnight or later. Like I said , it is my favorite, so I will enjoy studying it, it is just getting started.

I also have to take care of some business online tonight before I go to bed. And not to be rude, but I stink, so I need a shower really, really bad.

The humidity has been like Oklahoma's lately, not the dry Colorado we love.

So the stink is a daily thing, until we get these storms out of the area.

And the storms are not the friendly rain storms, no, they are full of wind, tornadoes and hail and just about all kinds of stuff we as humans, don't like.

My plants have been dug up lately also.

I covered the compost so the animals won't get into it, but they are destroying my plants, so I am going to let them have at the compost.

I am going to stop Blogging and study...

Two hours later. I did it! I studied the entire lesson, and looked up all of the scriptures!

This is no big deal, millions of others have done the same thing. I am just happy I can go to bed after my shower now. And think about the lesson and how I should appreciate Jesus' role, more than I do now.

I am not going to add any photos today, well tonight, well now it is Sunday about 12:45, so it is another day.

It is too late to bother with photos.

In fact when I first tried to post tonight it was way earlier and I had something to state about crochet patterns.

That will have to be posted another day.

This is all I can write tonight, I just have so much more to do before I go to bed.

I don't like staying up this late, but such is life.

Oh man, oh man, I forgot to water the lawn.

I have to do that tonight, at least part of it.


I will do that now, then get the shower, then the Internet business then turn off the hose and go to bed!

Night, night all.

Now I know there is one more mistake, but I cannot find it. Who cares the shower and bed are calling me.

Too much going on at once

Things are changing a lot around the Blog scene.

It took an hour or longer for me to sign in, mainly because it seemed that my blog disappeared.

Oh my, EEEEEEEKS!

So I have been busy, like usual.

My sweet husband has had double pneumonia and I have had to carry a lot of his load, as well as my own and I just cannot get ahead. And that does not include the hours going to and from the doctors. One is anywhere from 30 - 45 minutes one way.

And I feel like I am on a time squeeze for a lot of things to get done. The convention is next weekend. I have yard work and house work I would like to get done before the convention.

I guess the yard will have to wait, but the house cannot wait.

We can drive back and forth, so there will be no major packing, at this point. If Don cannot go, I may have to get a hotel, if it is to late to get a ride from someone else.

I cannot drive on my pain meds, and if I have to drive, I will not be able to take any of them all day, until I get home. So I am worried about that. And since it is so close to the convention, many people have all the plans and full cars by now. And I doubt there will be a hotel room in the city we have the convention, because most of the hotels are here in my city. LOL

I will ask tomorrow at the meeting. Then I am going to take a break and get out ion service even more tomorrow. Service is a break form so much, and with the invitations work it is a very pleasant time.

It is a busy time for us that is for sure. Besides service, house work and yard work I have been busy getting gifts ready. One is a yard sale swap and I got that sent out today, just on the wire day for last day to send.

I still have another baby bootie to crochet and a hat to make for an on line shower.

But I already had told everyone that I may not be part of the shower.

I have been so busy that I could not get to my Watchtower to study this week.

It is nearly 10:30 pm and it still needs done.


I feel horrible, because that is my favorite thing to study and this week it seems like it is a huge project.

And of course this is the week with a lot of scriptures to think about and meditate on, so my mind will be busy till midnight or later. L
I also have to take care of some business on line tonight before I go to bed. And not to be rude, but I stink, so I need a shower really, really bad.

The humidity has been like Oklahoma's lately, not the dry Colorado we love.

So the stink is a daily thing, until we get these storms out of the area.

And the storms are not the friendly rain storms, no they are full of wind, tornadoes and hail and just about all kinds of stuff we as humans don't like.

Ny plants have been dug up lately also.

I covered the compost so the animals won't get into it, but they are destroying my plants, so I am going to let them have at the compost.

I am going to stop Blogging and study...

Two hours later. I did it! I studied the entire lesson, and looked up all of the scriptures!

This is no big deal, millions of others have done the same thing. I am just happy I can go to bed after my shower now. And think about the lesson and how I should appreciate Jesus role more than I do now.

I am not going to add any photos today, well tonight, well now it is Sunday about 12:45, so it is another day.

It is too late to bother with photos.

In fact when I first tried to post tonight it was way earlier and I had something to state about crochet patterns.

That will have to be posted another day.

This is all I can write tonight, I just have so much more to do before I go to bed.

I don't like staying up this late, but such is life.

Oh man, oh man, I forgot to water the lawn.

I have to do that tonight, at least part of it.


I will do that now, then get the shower, then the Internet business then turn off the hose and go to bed!

Night, night all.


Grrr, and then I could not post the blog, it is still messing up.

Oh thank my brain for thinking of copying and pasting to word before clicking publish!

A Spring Post

I have been doing not so good for the

past few months.

a lot has been due
to the lung cancer.

That is the non self inflicted lung cancer.

I had no choice, it was not caused

by me or anyone near me smoking.

If you read this and smoke, please quit, if you get cancer, it will be the people you love that hurts and
that will take care of you.

If you really want to put that load on your children,
then I don't think anything,
anyone says,would help to encourage

you to stop smoking.

Well that is enough for the "lecture."

Of course, I did not put the camera down
during this time.

I have some lovely photos from my yard, and some from the mountains after the trees turned last fall. These four, up to this point, are just a few out of the many I took.

Since I have been invited to be a guest at an International Convention, I chose to use some of my photos as gifts for the others that will be attending the convention.

Of course I cannot make 100,000 gifts, nor travel with that many, so I have to call a halt at a certain number.

Being the convention is in Mexico City, I am taking things, the people there can use, but cannot afford to purchase.

Those are things I have been picking up here and there for the past few months.

Hair things for the females and ties for the males.

And then the gifts with the photos. Right now they are a load of postcards.

If I remember how to load the photos here, I will load the final copy, so you all can see what I have to share with the other delegates.

You all, if you know someone that is going to the same convention, could you contact me please.

Those that know me enough to know someone that is attending will already know how to contact me.

If I get someone that posts in the comments part, I will be asking questions, that cannot be fudged by someone not attending.


My crochet hooks have not been resting either, in fact, this afternoon, I have to work on a gift, that needs sent out in the next few days, so that needs done by Friday at the latest.

I have always turned my nose up at making doilies, I love seeing them and having them in my home.

I always thought what a waste, they are just dust catchers.

Well a group of sellers on Ebay taught me the joys of making and having the nicer of the doilies.

Now I not only crochet them, I have them all over the house.

Some aare my granny's and my great grandmothers.

Some are those that others have made, and I have one or two of mine.

Please, please, do not buy doilies from the dollar store or Walmart or stores like those.

There is no machine crocheting, like knitting.

If a dollar store sells a doily for a dollar and it take someone five to seven hours to make that doily, how much are the losers that are selling them to the dollar store paying that crocheter?
It makes me sick to think some woman is paid pennies for that much work.

If you want a doily, hire someone that you know, or go to a yarn store and ask there, for someone. But please, please, do what you can to stop that abuse.

It makes me sicker to think that a child may be the one making them.

I have a suggestion, the dollar stores and other stores buy, on the bases of what is sold. So if no doilies are sold, they won't come up to be bought. Hide the doilies when you see them.

Hide them where they cannot be seen for months.

I know how long it takes a good crocheter to make one doily, so that is why I am mentioning this.

Ok I promised so copies of the postcards I am making for the delegates of the convention.

Here they are.

This is not all of them.

This is starting to underline everything I am writing.

for some reason. I can say I had fun making these and then using a coupon from Walgreens.

The coupon was 50 prints for $5.00.
So I made several and had to correct some of them. Just to waste another coupon!




And others are going where I put them with no problem.


These are small, I may make some bigger tomorrow, with not much writing.
I am getting a headache and getting frustrated, because there is so much going wrong.

Ok there is not much cooperation with those silly things, so I will try and post them, in a bigger manner also, another day.

It is not worth the headache and not worth the frustration.

I also need to get crocheting while my show is on.