{"id":13090,"date":"2025-06-24T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=13090"},"modified":"2025-06-24T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:17:09","slug":"a-whole-month-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=13090","title":{"rendered":"A Whole Month Gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What can I say? \u00a0I have \u00a0let almost the whole moth of June go by without visiting here. \u00a0I\u2019d say I\u2019ve been busy and I have, \u00a0but not that busy. \u00a0 Too much time looking at animals and beautiful redos of houses on Facebook. \u00a0I can\u2019t resist looking at cute animals doing cute things. And I love seeing how people take an old house and make it beautiful and up to date. \u00a0Makes me want to remodel our house sometimes. \u00a0Our old house has been remodeled so many times in the forty some years we have lived here, but there are still things about it I would like to change.<\/p>\n

Any of you have a walk-in closet with lots of space? \u00a0I really would love to have one central place for clothes and other things that are stuffed in our closets. \u00a0We actually have two closets you can step inside with hanging rods on both sides. \u00a0Both are full of clothes, old toys, puzzles and quilts.Then we have four other closets stuffed with more clothes, towels, sheets and memorabilia. no room for much else. \u00a0We have done a cleaning out of my clothes, but I still have too much. \u00a0We also have what we call the coat closet, stuffed with coats, hats, scarves and shoes. \u00a0Believe me when I say, stuffed.<\/p>\n

But this is not what I want to talk about. \u00a0Since next year,2026,the United States will be celebrating its 250th anniversary as a country, I have decided I want to make some patriotic quilts and potholders. \u00a0I\u2019ve already got a good start and have been amassing a lot of red, white and blue fabric. \u00a0Every week, it seems, I receive another parcel of fabric. \u00a0I keep telling David after each one that this is the last I\u2019ll need and then I see some gorgeous fabric online and I just have to have it.<\/p>\n

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Here is one little quilt I made in the last few weeks. \u00a0There is a potholder there also.
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I liked the pattern so much, I made another one in reproduction material.<\/p>\n

I will post quilts as I make them except for some that will be gifts. \u00a0It\u2019s going to be a patriotic year!<\/p>\n

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This year was the first time we had our own strawberries. \u00a0David started a little patch last year and this year it provided us a couple of quarts of berries and they were so good. \u00a0I ate mine in bowls of Corn Chex and yum! \u00a0The milk turned pink and tasted just like strawberries. \u00a0Next year we really should get an abundance of strawberries as the patch has grown and expanded and he started another patch. \u00a0These, with all the rhubarb we should get, will have us eating well next Spring. \u00a0It is nice raising your own food. \u00a0I use to keep a big garden years ago, but it is too much for me now. \u00a0I have started cherry tomatoes and some herbs in my greenhouse and in a few days,I will be eating tomatoes from my own vine. \u00a0My greenhouse smells like basil,too!<\/p>\n

We had a pool party Sunday and our \u00a0daughter and her family spent the afternoon in the pool. \u00a0It was in the nineties all day and we all got a little burned. \u00a0It is supposed to be hot all week. \u00a0I don\u2019t \u00a0do hot well anymore. \u00a0When I was \u00a0young I use to lay out in the sun for hours and I always had a good tan. \u00a0Now I would \u00a0rather be in the shade where it is cool. \u00a0And talking about the pool and dogs. \u00a0Oh, I wasn\u2019t? \u00a0Well, we have a black Lab called Sugar and she sneaks into the pool when no one is around. \u00a0David said this morning as soon as he opened the door here she came running dripping wet from being in the pool. \u00a0She refuses to get into the pool with us, but when we go outdoors we can see where she has gotten out of the pool before we can catch her. \u00a0We are thinking about putting a camera up. \u00a0Little sneak! \u00a0Our chocolate Lab, Lucy, won\u2019t go near the water which is odd for a Lab.<\/p>\n

David has some days off coming up. \u00a0We don\u2019t have any big plans, but we probably will go somewhere for a day or two. \u00a0We don\u2019t do long vacations any longer. \u00a0Neither of us like sitting in a car for hundreds of miles anymore and we won\u2019t fly so there you are! \u00a0Maybe that will change one day. \u00a0I do get wanderlust sometimes and wish I could just drop everything \u00a0and go far, far away. \u00a0That may happen sooner than I think!<\/p>\n

It looks to be a very busy rest of Summer. A wedding is coming up so there will be a shower for the bride to be and I want to \u00a0visit some friends and relatives I don\u2019t see enough. \u00a0I really can\u2019t wait to see all my grandchildren. \u00a0Now that most are grown or nearly so, and \u00a0their lives are busy, too and we live miles apart, it is hard to get together. \u00a0I just realized this week my baby grandchild will be a junior in high school this Fall. A junior! \u00a0He was just a baby yesterday.<\/p>\n

And I just realized I will need to buy a new dress and shoes for the wedding. \u00a0More things to put in already stuffed closets!<\/p>\n

Hope your Summer is going well whether you will be traveling or staying at home. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What can I say? \u00a0I have \u00a0let almost the whole moth of June go by without visiting here. \u00a0I\u2019d say I\u2019ve been busy and I have, \u00a0but not that busy. \u00a0 Too much time looking at animals and beautiful redos of houses on Facebook. \u00a0I can\u2019t resist looking at cute animals doing cute things. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}