Maooose's Blog

July was a productive month! I got a few more things done on my list.  Christopher and I went to the dentist for cleanings.  I helped Jim paint our laundry room.  He did pretty much all of it but I did help a little bit.  Christopher and I had our Ratatouille lunch.  It ended up being really good and filling.  A friend of his joined us and thought it was pretty cool too.  I think we might do it again sometime.

I have become somewhat addicted to the wheresgeorge.com website.  I entered my 50th bill on 7-7-08 and I am still entering bills! I even ordered a couple of stamp to make marking the bills faster and easier. As of today I have 307 bills entered and have gotten 6 hits.  Hits basically means that someone has found one of my bills that I entered marked and spent and they entered it at the website.  I even have one bill that has been entered twice aka a double hitter! So far all my bills have been entered in Flagstaff and I am waiting for someone to enter one of my bills somewhere else besides Flagstaff.  I would love to get one from another state too.  Oh well I guess I will have to be patient!

I have also signed up for 2 exchanges on the EMS board.  I am doing a mini scissor fob exchange and a state bird or flower small item exchange for US residents on the board.  I am doing well so far with stitching both items.  I will take pictures of them before I send them and post them here after they are mailed out to my partner.

I have entered the Coocnino County Fair again but not with cross stitch items.  This year I am entering 3 pictures in the fine arts division of the fair.  I will do a post with the pictures after they are framed and ready to go.  I am also thinking about entering a couple of baked items in the home economics division but not sure what to enter yet.

Well, that is about all for now.  Like I said July has been productive and I hope that August will be too. 

Here is a pic of the first three parts of the sampler.  I have gotten a little behind but hope to catch up again.  I didn't start part 4 until yesterday but did get a fair amount done.  I hope to get more stitching done today.  I am looking forward to having lots of stitching time on our up coming trip to Florida on Tuesday (4-15-08).  I should be able to get lots done during the flights there and back.  We are going to visit family and it should be fun.  It will be nice to go on a trip with just my Honey.  I don't think he and I have ever flown somewhere just the two of us before.  We have always gone to places within driving distances when we have traveled without the kids.  I am really looking forward to getting away with him. 

Well, today was the first day for the Northland Hospice Training Program.  I  really enjoyed it.  There are about 25 people in the group and then the leaders.  Our first workout for the beginning running group was walking 3 minutes and running/jogging 2 minutes 6 times.  I completed all the intervals only walking for about 5 - 10 seconds during the 3rd jogging time.  I managed to keep up with the two leaders for our group pretty well along with about 5 other people.  I will take tomorrow off and then will do the next training intervals on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week.

Here is a picture of my little bit of progress on this project.  I took the picture on 3-29-08.  I will post another picture when it is finished. I am stitching it on 18ct light oatmeal fiddlers cloth with DMC 890.  Enjoy!

What is it with cats and clean laundry! Here is a pic of my kitty laying on the freshly folded towels.  I had one folded and she decided that was where she wanted to sit.  So, with each towel I then folded after that I picked her up and placed it on the pile and then put her back on top of the towels.  She just laid down each time I put her back down.  So, I had to snap this picture of her since she kinda reminds me of the story The Princess & the Pea.  We also have a stack of blankets in the living room that she loves to lay on as well.  Go figure!