Here are a couple of hats done on the loom that I finished up the other day.


Even though it was rainging last evening, I needed to get out for a breath of air. The sun is suppose to be back out tomorrow!



Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love. And even though you can not see Him right now and can not understand what He is doing, you know HIM.

Another cable knitted hat. And another waiting room knitted hat.


My posts this week will be quite irregular and on the fly. My dad is not doing well and we have decided that we need to be the ones taking him to his treatments. Please continue to keep him and the family in your prayers. Thank you.


The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance-a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

Yesterday was a wonderful day! I played in my scrap yarn pile most all day!!
And this is what I did with it!







If you do not stand firm in your faith,
you will not stand at all. Is. 7:9

Well, yesterday morning, I spent several hours making myself a hat. I just wanted to experiement! Was feeling adventurous!
Here is my first 'real' attempt at felting! I am very pleased.
I crocheted the hat using 2 strands of 100% wool. Put it in the washer with a couple of bath towels, let it agitate for several minutes, took it out, played with it, repeat. Until it got to the size I wanted. Then I stretched it out over an upside down bowl and set it in the sun to dry.



This little guy followed me into the shed yesterday!

Went to a car show yesterday. It was great to get out for a bit.

Knitted hats. More cables!! And another 'waiting room' hat. But if you look close, you can see where I just did st st knitting until I got home, then, around the top, I had to play around with a few small cables!!


God wants you to be in a much closer relationship with Himself than simply recieving His gifts- He wants you to get to know Him. There is nothing easier than getting into the right relationship with God, unless it is not God you seek, but only what He can give you.

OMG!!! I have been trying for a day and a half to get these pictures on here! And it was probably something really stupid on my part!! LOLOL!! Oh well!

First, the GREAT news: My daughter and her boyfriend are officailly engaged!! See the beautiful ring he gave her on July 1st. She is so happy! Of course, I am too! They have been together for nearly 2 1/2 yrs. He is my son's bestfriend, so he's been around for awhile and we all like him! And his family loves her!

Look what my kids brought me from thier holiday weekend camping trip!! (do I have them trained right, or what??!!) These are Puddingstones. From the area around Gaylord, MI.

Thursday, late afternoon the farmer beside us and the farmer behind us got started taking out the wheat. Summer harvest has begun!

Hats worked on the KK looms.
Chickory. One of my most favorite blue flowers. I keep trying to grow my own, but when they are small, they look so much like a dandylion, that I keep pulling them out!! Every year. I have got to stop pulling 'weeds'!!

Update on my dad: Please continue to remember him and my mom in your prayers. My dad is not doing so well. His breathing has gotten considerably worse in a very short time. He is now on oxyen and started radiation therapy. We are hopeful that the radiation will help with his breathing.

Praise be to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort. 2 Cor. 1:3

Sunflower and Hollyhocks greeting the morning sunshine!!

Check out this little ladybug. She caught my eye. She is the same color as the flower. She was the pinkest pink ladybug I have ever seen!!


Knitted hats. I am really enjoying trying out all these new stitch patterns. However, they don't all come out perfect! For instance, the white one came out huge! But I love the pattern! I will be doing it again, trying a different color and not doing so many repeats. I love the green one except that I messed up about 8 rows right in the middle! But if I don't tell anyone, it does kind of look like I meant to do it!! I mean, it's not totally yukky!!

I played in the gardens all day yesterday. But didn't take any pictures. Here are just a couple from this morning. I just needed to get out with my morning coffee and see how things were going!!


If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land. Is. 1:19

Our little woodchuck buddy was back again last night. Hadn't seen him for about a week.


This little guy was taking a nap!

Hats worked on the green KK loom.

If we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account. Every elemet of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power. (O. Chambers)

I just step outside the last couple of days and the ground is just 'hopping' with these little fellows! I'm afraid to take a step! I don't want to squash them. But, boy can they move quick! And they are everywhere!!


This is day 4 of off and on rain. It was much needed. But I am getting just a little tired of it! I'm ready to get outside and play in the gardens again!! Oh well, at least I am getting lots of hat work done!!


Bugs of some kind on the Butterfly Weed.


Whenever our Lord talked about discipleship, He always perfaced His words with an "if", never with the forceful or dogmatic statement- "you must". Discipleship carries with it an optition.

Now is the time of year when I take ALOT of pictures!! And there is no way that I can download them all to my blog! But I can save them and share them in the dead of winter when I can't find too much to photograph!
We have Monarch's!! Oh what a fun and blessed sight this little guy is!! The milkweed flowers smell amazing, but it is ok if this fellow wants to eat them all!!

Ok, so I am on a cable kick right now! I love the way they look. And now that I know how to do them, it is so much fun to try all the different varieties!!! Yep, got another one on the needles now!! And am looking for more!!

All of these bright and cheerful flowers greeted me first thing this morning.

And then I found this much needed verse:

The LORD your God is with you,
He is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing. Zeph. 3:17

LOL! I have decided that my hat pictures are just way tooooo boring! I am excited about my hats, but when I take a picture and post it, they just look...well, not cool! I make these hats on the loom all the time. But they needed a little excitement! This pink one was worked on the red KK loom, the tan/blue one was worked on the green KK loom. Both done with the chunky braid stitch.
I am going to try to get a bit more creative with my picture taking!

More flowers! A new lily bloomed yesterday. And the zinnias are just getting started! They are one of my favorite, so there will be LOTS more pictures of them!!

The first Balloon flowers popped open. We have these tall, white ones. And I also have some short, blue ones.

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33

I was able to 'sneak' out for a few mintues yesterday morning. Took a quick look around at our flowers. Things are just changing everyday!!




Then, another long afternoon in waiting rooms.
Which did produce another hat!!


My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. John15:12