Dancing After Dark...

 

I went to see my girlfriend (and hairdresser), Wendi yesterday and went back to my sassy short hair. No muss. No fuss, and Handsome loves it short like this, so I'm good all around. When I got home, I headed straight to my studio to work on the frogs. I stopped shortly before dinner, and then went back to this project after we finished our after-dinner chores.

So, you know me. I don't just sit around most nights. I've been working on a new strawberry sachet. This one shall be an Autumn Strawberry, stitched in all the colors of the leaves outside. Even though we got all that snow for Halloween, there are still a lot of trees clinging to their fall finery, and I hadn't done a piece to celebrate those colors yet. I decided it was time.

That means, I'm frogging around during the day and needle dancing after dark. Just perfect if you ask me. I'll be doing more of this until the winners' frogs are ready to mail out, because I have canning projects waiting for me next week.

I hadn't said anything yet, but Handsome was originally planning to leave for Florida mid-November after my ten week post-op appointment with my surgeon. Instead, he said he doesn't want to be away from me for six months, so he's going to wait until after the first of January - just like last year. Four months apart is long enough for both of us, so I'm extra happy he'll be here with us through the holidays and our anniversary. He'll be playing with four different music organizations while he's there, and they wanted him for the whole season, but that would mean he's sitting on his hands when everyone shuts down for the rest of the month, and with holiday air travel being so erratic (and the fact that I loathe flying anymore), we wouldn't opt for either one of us to fly to the other. 

 

His change of plans means he'll be here to help me with all the lifting required for my canning projects now. I still have thirty to forty pounds of potatoes, some apples, mushrooms and all those frozen tomatoes to process. The tomatoes can hold off until later as they're already frozen, but the potatoes and apples can't wait. I still have to go to the mushroom farm to get those, so I'm good there until later, too.

 

Anyway, I'll be back to working on the frogs today. All the outlining is finished on the four I already have hooped, so I get to start the really fun part next...the sparkly bits. I'll share a photo update tomorrow.  Gosh it's already Friday, and I still have loads to do. Where does the time go? 

Oh, and speaking of time...Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour when you go to bed Saturday night! It's that time of year again, but just to be sure, I'll remind you again tomorrow.