Wall Painting, Temp Blanket and Colors, Coffin/Grill and Rambling

I have to admit, 

this is really cool.

I found this on FB.

Someone painted this upon

request for a client. 

I have to say, 

AMAZING 

job.

I love how it picks 

up on the other wall.

 

Great job and I am sure

someone will love this in

their home, but not for me.

Problem for me, I don't have

walls that don't have furniture on 

them, and personally I would consider

it a wasted wall if I could not

use it for furniture.

For years I have wanted to do 

a temperature blanket/afhgan 

but come the first of the year I 

am never ready to start on one. I

never have my colors planned or

the yarn bought for the project.

Again, this year, I 

was not ready, but I was

determined that I was starting one.

The thoughts are that you start on 

Jan. 1st at which point you 

should have your yarn, the colors 

you want, the size and etc.

I learned of a website that

allows you to go back to 

a day, year and city to 

see the weather that day including

temps in highs and lows, so 

if you want to do one for 2024,

you can. Or if you miss the 

start on Jan. 1st, you can always

start anytime and still know 

what the temps were any given

day. Once I found that site, 

I decided to go back to 

1960 and start mine. I could have

done Feb 14, 1960 and finished it

on Feb 14, 1961 for the first yr

of my life but NO, 

I decided I would do Feb 14, 1960,

and do every Feb. 14 for each year to

2025.  

Problem, it was only going to be

65 lines long, so I went back 

to the website and copied down

the lows for those days also, 

to make it 130 lines long.

I explain all this to you to say,

I finally started my temp

blanket. I am up to year 1979.

I LOVE the colors!!!

My temp blanket is going to be

1/2 highs and the other 1/2

will be the lows. I have each 

year written down, the 

high and lows,

 and the 

color per temp range I 

am working 

from.

However, looking at what

I have stitched so far, and 

calculating at I will 

stitch of the rest of the highs

and even the lows, this

is going to be 

short. Now to decide what

to do? I think I will pick

one of my colors I am 

using and do a section for

the center, to separate the 

highs and lows. Or maybe look

for a color that is not being

used in the temps and

use it for the center.

Making choices or descisions

used to NEVER

be an issue, wow, I 

struggle with that now.

Moving on.....

Saw this this morn and 

I have to say, this

being in my yard, for a

grill or anything 

else, would have to 

be a hard

NO!!!

 

I love Halloween but

I prob would not even

put this out for that,

it's a real one, now 

if it was fake, built for 

Halloween, yes, for

Halloween!

Gotta go, 

gotta guy coming 

to see how much dirt 

I am in need. I am 

also going to get an

est. on a few other

things I want done.

Electric and outlets

in the shed, rails on 

my two steps to the 

porch (so I don't fall 

on my as....I mean

rear again) and 

to build my retaining wall.

I asked the builder what

the dirt and having it 

spread would cost, cause

that is how I was taught, 

even though he did not

mention cost. Well, I 

maybe should have kept

my mouth shut! LOL.

Anyway, dude that was

just here, yes, I took 

a break writing this 

post to meet with him

is going to send an est.

for the cost of dirt, spreading

and building a 

retaining wall. Well, with

whatever the cost, it 

should be worth it.

I am sure not up to 

spreading a truck load

of dirt, or building 

that wall.

I will have to contact

someone else

for the electric and 

the rails.

That might be next

months SS payment!

haha

I refuse to take out

of my savings.

So, I have expressed

my choices on the 

temp blanket, 

what are your thoughts

about making it longer?

Do you like the colors I 

am working with?

I have shared a painting

on the wall with you,

would you ever consider 

doing a painting on one 

wall? I think I have

shared with you my 

thoughts of bare walls,

I don't have any!

I refuse to have bare

walls. So, that really

don't leave a wall to paint on.

Anyway, today is nice,

no clouds, blue skies,

and warmer than yesterday,

which was 

COLD. News reports

say that what we had

Sunday night was just

a taste of what is

coming tomorrow.

Figure Amber and 

the boys will

be here tomorrow 

night. 

Hoping weather is

good where you are,

Pam