Due West, Afghan, Kitchen Corner, Cookies and Lily Bit with Deck Time

I follow a group on 

FB and every so often they 

will post a video of them

sitting around singing.

I follow this group because the

lead singer is a friend of

my daughter Amber. They 

worked together at 

a restaurant many, 

many years ago. Caleb was

probably 8 or so, making 

it around 2008 that they 

worked together. Amber took

me there for dinner for my

bday, making me 48.

Before dinner, a waiter came

to my table and sang 

Happy Birthday to me.

His name is Time Gates

and the group is 

Due West. 

Here is a video of them

singing.

Bing Videos

Wow, that was so long ago.

A few post back 

I showed pics of an afghan 

I was working on. Well, I had 

to rip a lot of that out. I was being

creative and trying different things

and it got messed up. I ripped all that 

out except maybe 20 rows, and 

started from the point where I had 

messed up. But, I am 

at it again.

All three of my natural grands,

have afghans I have made for them.

I am working on my grands that came

with Amber's marriage. This one will

be for Brayden (yes, I have two grands

with that name) and Hannahs.

 I also have

purchased the yarn for my weather

temp blanket. Not started that yet, 

but I will be prepared when I do. 

If you have not heard of or seen

weather afghans then let me tell you 

what they are about. You stitch an 

afghan, one line a day. It is your choice

to pick your colors and the temp

range. I am doing mine 

like this, one color for 

0-10, 11-20, 21-30

and so on. People start at 

Jan. 1 and cont.

to the end of the year. However, I 

am doing mine differently, I looked

the cities I lived in starting with when

 I was born, Feb. 14, 1960 in 

Port Hueneme, Calif.

I continued to look up the temp

for each year on Feb. 14, from  

1960 to 2025. Instead of having

ten colors mine will have only six 

since the temps don't vary that much

that time of year. 

Anyway, I will share

when I start.

Continuing to add

wood to my kitchen to 

break up the cold feel of the 

gray and white, I did this

corner over by the sink.

I decided to add jars of pasta and 

beans, a lamp and antique meat

meat grinder on a cutting 

board my nephew made. 

I know that is not a pretty

shade on the lamp but it is

the original shade that came 

on the lamp when my parents 

purchased it right after

they married.

They got two of them in Erie, Pa.,

at an antique store.

The grinder

was given to me.

I was sitting and enjoying

my non stressful Sunday when 

I decided I needed something

sweet. I was not going out

for anything and I generally

do not keep stuff here to 

eat or to whip up and make.

But I came up with something!

Well, yes I did.

I took two packages of instant

apple cinnamon oatmeal, threw 

in brown sugar, flour and 

melted butter. Makes great cookies.

Problem with my cookies, 

I was out of parchment paper,

and according to the box

you can also use wax paper.

Don't do that.

I let my cookies cool and 

now I have to cut the 

bottom of the cookies 

away cause the wax paper

stuck to them.

CRAP.

I leave you with a view 

of Lily Bit enjoying

some deck time. 

She is happy that it is 

getting warmer so that 

she can spend more and

more time out there.

She loves it. She even

took a nap on the daybed 

earlier today.

Smile cause you can.

Laugh cause it is good for you,

Pam