Week 30

I’m on vacation!! I’ve been enjoying every minute so far. It’s so nice to sleep till you wake up and not have to watch the clock to be at work at a certain time. Of course this is fair time, and I’ve signed up to be in some special contests; so in a way, I’m still having to watch the clock to be at a certain place at a certain time. But this is the Fair!! This is soooooo different than having to be a WORK!

My “stuff” is still spread out all over the sewing room. I picked up a little cross-stitch kit, worked on it a few days and got it done. Isn’t it cute? It came with a plastic bag to put goodies in,  then you use some of the left-over floss to make a tie to close the plastic bag.

 

Then I picked up another kit for some cross-stitch Christmas cards and have been working on them. It’s nice to sit down after my few daily chores are done, knowing I don’t have to go anywhere, and spend a few hours just sittin’ and stitchin’. Especially the last several days because we’ve been having some beautiful, below average-temp weather. I’ve been sitting in the sunroom

because I can see a lot better with natural light and get the added benefit of listening and watching the birds, squirrels, and even a baby rabbit playing around in the yard. This is the ideal vacation!!

My UFO’s are still looming, like a dark onimus cloud, over my head. I picked one up the other day, looked at it, and then said, “ah, I don’t want to work on that now…..” and put it back down. What’s up with that?!? It must be some kind of problem, but I don’t have a name for it! However,  I do feel better that I got some of them done so I could enter them into the fair. Thank goodness for the fair. If I didn’t have that to modivate me every year, the UFO’s would grow way out of hand and ……..Ooooh, I don’t want to think of that!! (Shutter!)

I can’t say I’m not working on any of my UFO’s though. Remember the sweater I started out of the Symphony yarn in blue? I guess I can officially call it a UFO since it did take the back burner for several months. Anyway, I picked it out this week and have been knitting a few rows on it every day. It’s really slow-going on #4 needles in stockinette stitch. (BOR-ING!)

Sat. is the pie baking contest. I hardly ever win anything on my pies. Not that mine aren’t any good, because I HAVE won a time or two. BUT,  we have a lady that enters pies every year and she enters every class and wins 1 st in every class. Then the judges choose a Champion pie from the pies that won the blue ribbons (1st place) in all the classes. Of course, there’s no contest because this lady has them all. The only surprise is to see which class she’ll win the Champion ribbon in this year. It’s a little satisfying, in a pathetic sort of way, to know that if you win 2nd place, you would have won 1st if she hadn’t entered this year.

I’m glad this lady can enter her pies and get ribbons, though.  It seems like the pies is the only thing she’s really good at doing. She doesn’t seem to get too many ribbons in anything else she does. Besides, it makes the rest of us work even harder to make better pies. That can’t be a bad thing, right? Hubby says I make some really awesome pies! What better judge is that?!?

Update: Here’s how pie-baking Sat. turned out. I entered three pies this year — an apple, pecan, and mixed berry.  I enter an apple pie EVERY year, and EVERY year–no ribbon.

W E L L, I got a ribbon this year on my apple pie!! And it was the second place ribbon!!! I just about fell out of my chair. Guess who got the Blue ribbon? Yep, our favorite pie maker. But this year she didn’t win first on all her pies. AND, she didn’t win the champion ribbon either! She must have had a bad year. Anyway, I need to try just a little harder and maybe, just maybe, I’ll win a first place on my apple pie next year. It won’t be any fun to win, though, if our pie lady doesn’t enter. I want to compete with her apple pie and THEN win the blue ribbon. I don’t want much, do I? I’m on a quest for that blue ribbon!!

The other two pies didn’t take any ribbons, but that’s ok. I’m still on cloud nine with my second place ribbon. If the pies don’t win anything, we have to take them back home with us. Plus, I could take half my apple pie, too, so the whole thing doesn’t wind up in the trash. Hubby went with me, (I’m glad he got to see the judging), and we took the pies by his folks so they could help us eat them.

Both his sisters and his brother and sister-in-law were there, too, so we all had pie. Mmmmmmm

More about the fair next time. Have a happy week!!