Friday's Stitching Ground 🍂

This past week I've been at my parents helping out while my Dad recovers from his stent placements. He's not supposed to lift any more than 10lbs, so that makes it difficult to take care of my Mom.

The colours are starting to show up here in western Maryland, but they sure are slow!

This was this morning while taking Addie for a walk.

Lots of yellow, I'd like more orange and red!

I was able to stitch a little in the Gartenhaus this afternoon, with a break in between taking care of Mom. With some pumpkin beer to wet my whistle!

On Wednesday, Dad celebrated his 81st birthday and requested a tiramisu cake. 'Tis the season, I made a pumpkin one! Not quite sweet enough for me, but better for them with less sugar and they liked it. Mom was able to enjoy the cake part since it had been soaked and was so soft.

So far I've enjoyed pumpkin coffee, donuts, and tiramisu. I have pumpkin ice cream waiting at home for me, I'm loving it! Do you enjoy anything pumpkin?

Scavenger Photo Hunt - Bucket 📷🪣

Welcome to the fourth word of the Scavenger Photo Hunt for August. As always, anyone can join in with whatever inspires you and I can always add it after the sign up is closed. Oh no, late again!

This week's word is -

Bucket

I know this is a little hard to see, but this is hanging up in our mud room and I'm not sure where the originals are. The Gmen and their cousins at the beach, getting water in the big bucket to add to their private pool. 

Gman2 and Gman1 with their own buckets.

Chillin in their buckets!

Now it's Nathan's turn to have fun.

He looks a little more comfy in his!

The bucket truck DH rented to trim trees in our yard. 

Nathan last year, heading to school with this bucket to store his things in since they couldn't spread out in class.

Ah, the beer bucket while on vacation.

More beach fun, the perfect place to store water balloons for a fight!

Chewie watching over the big beer bucket last summer. Hopefully he just wanted some ice!

Ming in what we call her "bucket"!

And it's almost time to be putting this up, I can't wait! It used to be a candy bucket, but I cut out the bottom and slit the back to put around our lights.

One oldie from my Dad, my older brother and I for our first Halloween in the USA. He must have been hoping for a big haul!

And I think I only have one stitched bucket, it's tiny!

Ready or not, here are the words for September

September 3rd     School

September 10th   Pizza

September 17th    Fall

September 24th   Ball

Please join in, we'd love to see what you come up with!

Friday's Stitching Ground 🎅

 I know it's been a long while posting for Friday's Stitching Ground, but this one's for you, Linda @Stitchin with my Furbabies!

 Today was a beautiful day to sit outside in the enclosed porch to stitch, with company of course! Chewie tried to tell Santa that he's been a good boy... um, okay.

My stitching view. DH joined me after he mowed the lawn.

 I'm almost finished with him, just some more beads and then backstitching. This was great for car stitching while waiting to pick up Nathan from school, but then I wanted to stitch him at home too.

This is what I was drinking this evening, nice, light, and refreshing.

So have you found anything new to drink? Not necessarily alcoholic, I also like trying new flavoured seltzers.

I am not a turkey... 🍺

I am not a turkey...

...I am a Brew Master!
I like to brew beer for me and my friends and also try lots of other kinds of beer.
Beer, beer, beer, bring on the beer!

I just brewed some blueberry beer, before that it was trashcan beer, and who knows what's next!

Just hanging out and chillin' with my friends, drinking some beer!
I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving without me, you know what I'll be doing. 🍻

Friday's Stitching Ground 🍁

Today was much nicer than yesterday's rain, although a bit colder.

DH and I took Chewie for a short walk this afternoon. I love walking through the leaves. They were still damp so I missed hearing the crunching!

Love in the leaves.

So I think I finished with Mr. Zombie, but I think I need to do some outlining on him. It's a little hard to see his decayed body since it sort of blends in with the fabric. I don't think he's too gory?

We watched the 2nd season of The Mandalorian tonight, it was good! I think this will be our new Friday night thing, when Gman1 gets home from work after 9pm. It's worth the wait!

I know it's on Disney+, but has anyone watched any of it yet? We had a free year, but looks like we'll have to pay so we can continue watching it. Goodbye HBO, we don't need you both.

Thanks to Mary @ Stitching Friends Forever, for suggesting this one. It definitely has a grapefruit flavour, which I love!

Friday's Stitching Ground 🚗

 Waiting to pick up Nathan at school has some stitching benefits, but unfortunately I didn't finish this for my Dad on his birthday. Although I did show him what he what he would be getting. And it's a good thing I asked him about how he'd like it finished, he said a gold frame which I hadn't even though of. It shouldn't take me that much longer, I didn't add as many beads as the pattern calls for.

His birthday mini celebration will be coming up in the next post.

I've been decorating outside a little and had some more spiders help me, how nice!

I added this guy to our Weeping Cherry, it looks like he fits right in!

His eyes were a little dark so I used some glow in the dark spray paint to try and brighten them up, but it didn't work well at all. Next try will be using some glow in the dark paint.

I found another pumpkin beer, or rather Paul or Gman1 did!

Yum, just the right amount of pumpkin and spices.

I'm still enjoying my pumpkin coffee and today treated myself to a pumpkin donut after taking Nathan for an orthodontist appointment. He chose a strawberry and a chocolate, he doesn't take after me in the pumpkin loving! I then made a pumpkin cheesecake this evening for tomorrow's dessert with friends coming over.

Have you gotten in the pumpkin kick yet? 

Friday's Stitching Ground 🐝

Today I had several stitching spots. This morning it was with Ming since Chewie was in his crate. I really miss this!

Then I thought I would stitch while waiting to pick up Nathan at school, although it was a little stop and go.

And hey, a beer delivery came this afternoon and DH ordered a few pumpkin ones for me! I'm hoping the other two are better, I wasn't that fond of this one.

And this is how far I got today, Mr. Pilgrim is almost finished. I guess I didn't make as much progress as I thought I would/should.

Just a heads up, put your thinking caps on for turkey. More info coming soon... 🦃

Friday's Stitching Ground 🚪

Chewie was very busy tonight, between being with me, to racing downstairs to be with DH. I think he'll sleep well tonight.
I'm still working on Happy Thanksgiving, but started the pilgrim so I don't have to decide on the leaves yet!

I'm sure she'll look better once she's back stitched.

This evening it's finally cool enough to have the door open to let the cool air in... bring on the fall! And look, I have the perfect beer for this weather, a Harvest Patch Shandy, it's delicious.

Here is trouble himself, opening the basement door with encouragement from DH below. 

And what else did he get into today? He was outside in the muddy mess with all the rain we've had, and decided to let himself in via the screened in porch and then the door to the house... leaving muddy paw prints on both handles and then all over the floor until Nathan caught him to wipe his feet. Oh well, I needed to wash the floor today anyway.
Hmm, something the cats would never do!

Oops, I forgot my question - what pumpkin goodies have you enjoyed since it's now September? No way could I wait until October.

Friday's Stitching Ground 🏡

Just a little behind in posting, I'll "blame" my Dad... and the new darn blogger!

On Wednesday I headed to my parents to help out because my Dad was having carpel tunnel surgery and wouldn't be able to take care of my Mom. To make a long story short, his appointment was for a consult and not surgery like he thought! He was not a happy camper and now it's been rescheduled for later in the month, although he's going to try something to possibly avoid surgery.

After that fiasco, I was going to leave on Friday but they asked if I could stay until Saturday because they missed me. Awe, how could I say no?

So Friday evening after Mom was in bed, I headed to the Gartenhaus to stitch. With the fan on and the windows open, it was nice and cool. 

My setup, complete with my ipad and sipping on my Dad's chosen beer, he wanted a lime one.

Dad came in later to visit me and, surprise, take some photos!

Here's the Gartenhaus as he was coming outside.

So I changed things up a bit and decided to stitch Thanksgiving. Will it be finished in time for this year? Who knows?!

With the cooler weather that's been here the last couple of days, I'm definitely in the fall mood, it's my favourite season. How about you, what season do you like the best?

Friday's Stitching Ground 🍺

My normal stitching spot, just a different view for you!

Next to me is my ORT mug, with a sweet little dragon peeking out.

Before and after about 130 French knots were added. 

And finally, I finished all the backstitching and have now moved on to the outer border! This is still going to take me awhile, but it's all good.

Yesterday DH had two beer deliveries and today he had one more. His excuse? New beer releases he just couldn't miss! He did get me a couple of sours, the one on the right is a strawberry/banana and it was very refreshing. The one on the left was his that I tried and I surprised myself by liking it! Something about adding it to a whiskey barrel made it quite tasty. I even asked him to save me one to have at another time.

Have you ever been pleasantly surprised by trying something new and finding that you actually liked it?