IT'S BEEN A LONG LONG TIME ~ ~ ~

Two weeks since I've posted!  I have been having fun, for sure ~ and I've been BUSY!!!  This is one of the pumpkins I've been hooking! 







Here are a couple more!  Small projects for my Sauder class! Only 16 in total ~ 12 more to do!

I took four grands to lunch and errands ~ that was fun!!  This was after they all had their glasses on upside down!  I'm sure the surrounding patrons wondered where I picked up this little band of wild and crazy kids!!

I went to Indiana to visit my friend, Gwen ~ and while there, I learned to knit!  This is almost done ~ there's just a few inches left to do ~  I ran out of yarn and the gal sent it to me right away ~ but I lost momentum.  I'll get it back though ~ I can finish it in short order ~ then block it ~ and wear it around my shoulders on a nice cool evening!

 We've collected lots of beach glass ~ this was from a couple of weeks ago.  Friday, we went to a place further away from us and collected a lot!  Then we met friends at Crush Wine Bar in Sandusky and had a little bite and a beverage!!

On one of our beach walks, we found this ~ a fun little memento that someone left from their fun day at Lake Erie!

 This little bracelet is made entirely of stones we found on the shores of Kelley's Island ~ the day we missed two ferry boats because we just weren't quite ready to quit!  I think it's very sweet and dainty ~ unlike the maker!!

And we've seen beautiful sunsets ~ we had to pull off the road to get this ~ if we had waited till we arrived at the condo ~ which was not far ~ it would have been too late!

Lots of other things have gone on, too.  But these are the fun ones ~ the things that get us through all the hard work and challenges that life brings!  We're having as much fun as we can ~ I hope you are, too!

Seize the Day!!

MORE WEEKEND FUN ~ ~ ~

 Do you know who this is?  We didn't ~ until one of our lake neighbors enlightened Sonny.  Last weekend, this was sitting on the back of a landscaping trailer, parked at the end of the Moose parking lot.  It is a bronze statue of WOODY HAYES ~ famed OSU football coach from 1951-1978 (I had to look that up)!  There is a landscaper who lives in our complex and evidently, Woody was going to be installed in someone's yard? or in a commercial job somewhere ~ it was actually, pretty impressive!

Such a beautiful view off our deck ~ this lone heron looked like he was posing!  We had weekend company from home ~ friends Cliff and Margo and their daughter and husband.  It was so bloody hot, that we took a little tour around the area, and came back to the condo to cool our heels in the a/c!  We took them to the Moose for perch sandwiches for lunch, the Islander Grille for dinner and I fixed a really good quiche (friend Carol's recipe) for Sunday breakfast and away they went!  You know our weekends consist of lots of eating  and adult beverages ~ it was so darned hot, we couldn't treat them to our favorite pastime of

sitting on the rocks!!  We hope they'll come again when it's cooler!

This was our beach glass bounty from three mornings of scouring the beach!  We were able to be at the lake for four days ~ a real treat for us! Lots of lucky stones in the lower left ~ a few bits of red and blue ~ and to the right (the white stick-looking like thing) is a fisherman's needle.  Friend Heidi had shown us one and this was the first we have seen in our beach walks.  It might be a real thing or it might be folklore but ~ it is the bone out of some kind of fish, at the top there is an opening that you could thread, and fishermen used it for mending their nets!! True or not, it's a good story!

Here are my efforts at jewelry making! The top bracelet is made with lucky stones ~ lucky stones are the earbone of a sheephead fish ~ I also just learned that from google ~ I had heard it was the cheekbone but now I know different!

The bottom is green beach glass ~ kind of bright but kind of pretty.  I'll try my hand at making more ~ it takes 12 pieces of glass or stones ~ and the glass has to be just the right size ~  so it won't take long to use up what we have!
Have a good Sunday ~ the weekend is almost over!  I feel like I'm on a spinning top ~ hanging on for the ride!!  See you soon!
Alice