Reading

I am still filling my free time with reading. I have not stitched since spring. I was hoping new glasses would help. I got them this past summer. But even with the new glasses... I find cross stitching difficult. I don't know but maybe cross stitch is in my past now. It's just to hard to see, even with my new glasses.
I started this blog for a stitch-along. Now I find I can't stitch anymore:(

I am still a poor blogger

I don't post much on my blog, had a long summer... I have not stitched since the spring...
But have been reading lots! I am a big fan of Diana Gabaldon's books. I can't read them to many times.
I pre-ordered her new book that came out Sept 21 from amazon. I HOPE I get it soon!
Well school started, temps have fell and two more family Birthdays to go... We have 5 family B-days in July, August, Sept and the last on Oct 2nd... With my little girl turning 17 Sept 23, the first day of fall. I should have called her Autumn. She loves that her B-Day comes on the first day of fall, lol.

We have color on the trees and fall in the air! I am still reading, but after I get some Autumn house cleaning done I hope to start stitching again. I hope my new glasses help! If the glasses don't it will very much limit what I stitch :(

I am such a poor blogger...

Ok, I know it. I am just bad at blogging. I don't take the time to post like I should. I come to my blog every day, I just don't post. I just hop about looking at others post...
I should try to post on my own blog more often.

I am still reading a lot. And I have done some tilling in my garden. I don't have my garden in yet. But I am in zone 2 and we can have frost till May 31st. So I never get my garden planted till the first week of June anyway. It still gets as low as 28 to 33 at nights here.
I have been stitching more since the last time I posted then I had all winter, I am happy to say! Just no pictures as of right now.

I have received the Traveling chart "Simply Live" I am involved with and almost done! I need to get some pic of it! It's been a lot of fun to stitch!

And the other big news is I found this very RED background, I just love it! Maybe I will blog more with an nice new color! I do love the color red!

Well I will try to get a few pic together to post with.

MIA for the past 10 months or so

So I have not blogged much for some time now... The worst part was I have not stitched much ether. I did get to some knitting this winter. I spent over a month with my parents to care for my mother.

Oh, I did do a lot of reading!

In the past 6 or 7 months I found a bunch of nice cheap books from e-bay and amazon books to add to all my other books! I got some books for my kids and myself. I even found two books on cross-stitch and one on quilts.

Here are most of my e-bay and amazon books. Wow! Looks like a lot when in a photo!

I have picked up my stitching a little in the past few weeks. I hope to do more this spring!

Spring in northern MN

Its spring time here in the north west of MN. Were we get floods from snow melt and rain. Were one day it is water and sun and the next snowing and ice. I live not far from the Red River of the north. The same river that gets in the news this time of year... that floods Fargo and Grand Forks ND. The thing about spring here is, we may have some snow melting going on right now (yes we still HAVE snow from this past winter to melt). But we can and do still get snow storms up into April and even May. We could even still get a blizzard this time of year! We had a very bad blizzard in 1996 in April.

Well here are a few pics from my yard and down the road of our snow and water we took this weekend. The water was up higher last week but I never got any photos then.

Hope your spring is going well!