Stagnant… Yet Vigorous – an Update

No, seriously, that’s what a statement issued for my area actually says about the C-R-A-P-P-Y weather we are expecting this week (because the last few months have been so pleasant, I guess):

I’d say that I’d be on the look-out for Jim Cantore, but since The Weather Channel is located here in Atlanta, chances are good that he might be here anyway, since there’s not much going on on the coasts at the moment 🙁 Atlanta proper was on target to break the 101 year-old rainfall record – we had storms come through last night, so I wonder if we did? Though, to be honest, that’s as measured down at the ATL airport, which is 62.7 miles south of me (yes, I did trip it out for expense reports) – they did not get the 7+ inches of rain in 6 hours that we got back in May, so if Atlanta records are being broken, I’m pretty sure they are equally or more broken up here. The mushrooms are growing mushrooms 🙁 And my poor pepper plants – the Cajun bells don’t seem to be too hampered, I have at least one that could be picked right now, but it’s not gotten red yet; the others are looking pretty sad. I gave them food yesterday – and then it rained like hell for a bit, so probably washed it all away 🙁

Suffice it to say, I am damn sick of rain. AND we haven’t even had a hurricane go through yet, though as cool as it is, maybe we can hope that it won’t be warm enough to generate the systems they were predicting this year. I would gladly send some of this out west where it is needed for the fires in Colorado, Arizona, and elsewhere. Anywhere from Texas on can have some of what we are about to receive….

Fortunately, with the dismal weather, there’s really no reason to not stay in and stitch 🙂 Lucy the Chickenshit Dog won’t go out if there’s a rain drop anywhere in the state (Dummy, of course, could care less), so we can’t even go for a walk – unless we just don’t take them with us. So, stitching it is. And, after I finished Amethyst Snowflake, I was more than ready to break out one of my By the Bay Cove series charts – Autumn is the one that jumped into the Qs first, and it didn’t even wait until IHOP Thursday, it MADE me start it at lunch on Tuesday:

This seasonal series has the same bottom portion, basically – hills, BIG tree to the left, 2 houses and smaller trees, and a ship in the cove; just the leaves on the trees and the sky change between the 4 seasons. I plan to just have 1 frame for these, and switch them out each season, once I get them all done 🙂 This one, Autumn, will have silks in it when done – the fall-colored leaves were charted for WDW, but I converted those over to HDF silks instead, just because 🙂 I expect each one to be fairly quick (of course, now that I’ve typed that out loud, I am SURE I have jinxed myself).

During the week, I continued on with my IC RYO One Lonely Family piece, and am glad to report that I have the border 2/3 or more done, and am getting it filled in slowly but surely! I’ve been working this slubby linen long enough now that it’s not bothering me too much – mostly only when a black stitch is really fat and the fabric shows through it over a particularly large slub. All in all, it’s looking really good, IMO – it’s almost electric on the grey, though this picture doesn’t really give that impression:

So far, a fun stitch, though not nearly as quick as last year’s Halloween mandala ended up being – which reminds me of the 2nd Halloween mandala that I haven’t done yet. Tracy needs to SLOW DOWN with the designs!

And speaking of Halloween, guess who released MORE designs that i must have? Yep, Prairie Schooler! These are on my WIsh List as of one day last week when I saw them:

I wonder if Double Double will have a companion piece released at the next market, Toil &Trouble? Isn’t there another one coming up in the next few weeks? No matter, so long as JJs has it by the Labor Day sale, I’m good – yay, MORE 3371 & Lambswool jobelan!

That’s it for last week. What are the plans for this week? No idea. I AM looking forward to a) short work week, b) Wednesday night at IHOP (since Thursday is a holiday), and 3) a 5-day weekend to recoup from my boss being gone for 2 weeks. I WAS looking forward to being outside some, doing… whatever (NEED some purple petunias for the flower bed at the foot of the steps), but that won’t happen before Saturday, it looks like 🙁 DH will be taking his mom home this weekend, since he has to work Friday – I assume the Kid will go with, because it’s a lonnnggg drive back by yourself. I will be on dog duty, I guess. I think I will put the RYO away for a bit, and either Halloween Rules or Halloween Quaker will come out – I am ready to work on Halloween stuff! I also need to be thinking about whether or not I’m messing with the fair – I need to get some frames regardless, because the pile is getting out of control, but it’s whether I feel like going through the hassle of taking stuff over to the other side of Atlanta or not… We’ll see, I have weeks & weeks to think about it. Because I work better under pressure.  Meh, whatever… Happy 4th of July to all of my fellow Americans, and Happy Stitching to EVERYONE!