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<\/a><\/p>\nThat necklace was a Mother’s Day gift from my daughter.\u00a0 You can’t see them very well, but my grandchildren’s names are all engraved on it.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 But what I was really trying to show was the paint by number picture.\u00a0 I ordered two of them in March and just received them recently. The colored picture is what I will be painting.<\/p>\n I also got this one which is a picture of a flower in a small vase on a table. Doesn’t look much like that right now, does it?\u00a0 I love these because you don’t have to mix colors. A few years ago I bought a paint by number at Hobby Lobby and you had to mix some of the paints to get the color you needed.\u00a0\u00a0I wasn’t very good at it and gave up half way through. Now that I’m painting these pictures, I think I will go back and see if I can finish that one if the paints haven’t dried up!<\/p>\n Anyway, I ordered yet another paint by number from another company and they wrote me that they were weeks behind because of the high volume of orders they had received. Must be a lot of bored people out there wanting something to occupy their time.\u00a0 I find painting is very relaxing.\u00a0 I wish I had taken some art classes in high school and college because I think I would have loved painting pictures of my own making.\u00a0 I know I love painting in general as I have painted every room in our house several times since we’ve lived here.\u00a0 Something about taking a brush with paint on it and transforming a room or a canvas\u00a0\u00a0just makes me happy.<\/p>\n I’m hoping to have this one done in a week or so and then David is going to build a frame and we’ll stretch the canvas onto it. Saw them do that last night on the show Home Town. One of my favorite fixer upper shows.\u00a0\u00a0 David and I took a road trip to Laurel, Mississippi where the show takes place and where the hosts’ have a little store downtown.\u00a0\u00a0 Very nice little southern town with beautiful houses and big oak trees down the streets.\u00a0 I can see why people want to move there.<\/p>\n Do you notice how I get off subject pretty quickly? That’s how my mind works. It meanders through one thought to another thought until I forget what the first thought was!\u00a0\u00a0 I was talking about painting, wasn’t I?\u00a0\u00a0 When I was a girl I would get color by number picture sets for Christmas and used color pencils to color the pictures. I absolutely loved doing\u00a0 it. I wish I still had some of those pictures. They sell them on E-bay now and people decorate with them.<\/p>\n But painting is not all I’ve been doing.\u00a0 I am working on six quilts. Six!\u00a0 I have a plan, but I can’t write it here because nosy people might know what I’m writing about.\u00a0 I found some wonderful fabrics in aboriginal prints that I am using in a couple of the quilts.\u00a0 It’s really amazing fabric.\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, my stamina isn’t what it use to be and it’s taking me a lot longer to get sewing done than it use to.\u00a0\u00a0 I have a deadline when I want these quilts completed, so I’m going to have to get it in gear and work harder.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe I’ll show you a corner of a quilt sometime.<\/p>\n And of course, there is always socks.\u00a0 I could knit all day I love it so much, but it would not be very good for me to sit so long so I get up and do other things like feed and water the chickens, chicks and dogs.\u00a0 That’s my life. Feeding and watering birds, both wild and domestic and the dogs.\u00a0 They can’t do it themselves and I’m the only one here most of the day, so somebody(me) has to do it.\u00a0\u00a0Yesterday I accidentally left the door open on the young chick’s pen and two of them got out. Luckily the pen was in the cabin so all I had to do was shut the cabin door and catch the little rascals and all was well. The chicks are getting almost big enough to join the big girls.\u00a0\u00a0 Next week we will put their pen inside the coop so they all can get acquainted.\u00a0 I always worry how the older chickens will take to the younger ones. Once our daughter’s family was going somewhere and needed chicken sitters while they were gone so they brought their flock over to put in with mine.\u00a0 Well, the rumble began as soon as her chickens saw mine. Her chickens were thugs!\u00a0 Bullies!\u00a0 I had to keep them all separated or someone would have gotten hurt. Not going to try that again. Chickens are very territorial.<\/p>\n But, back to knitting.<\/p>\n I got this lovely yarn in the mail.<\/p>\n And this one. This is called Monopoly because it has the colors of the Monopoly game.\u00a0 This designer always sends a little charm with each hank of yarn she sends to her customers.<\/p>\n Of course, Monopoly had a little green house.<\/p>\n The pink yarn included this pink and white sucker charm. I have several charms from this lady and I bought a charm bracelet the other day and am going to put all the charms on it to remind me of all the stockings I’ve knitted from this one business.<\/p>\n I’ve also been going through my yarn and finding like colors and making patchwork stockings. I knit until one color runs out and join yarn and keep knitting. I’m loving these Christmas colors socks.<\/p>\n The flowers in my garden change almost weekly. The peonies were so beautiful this year, but just did not last long enough.<\/p>\n The last paint by number I ordered\u00a0is actually a picture of peonies in a vase somewhat like this picture of my peonies. So I can have peonies all year through if I get the painting done.<\/p>\n We practiced social distancing long enough and our grandchildren were ready to get out and the came down to see us.\u00a0 It’s so nice having grown grandchildren you can carry on a conversation with. They are such fun to have around.<\/p>\n I just love these kids so much and could not be any prouder of them than I am already.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n