I knitted matching hats for Hubby & I!
This is the yarn I used:

This is one of the balls that I bought last week while we were up north.
Didn't it make just the neatest color pattern work??!!
The very wonderful lady at the yarn shop happened to be using this same yarn, only in a different color. When I got to the counter to pay for it, she went to the back room and brought out her own knitting to show me what the color pattern would look like! She was making a top-down sweater with it. It was fabulous!! I thought it was great that she was using the exact same yarn that Hubby had picked out, and then I thought it was so great that she took the time to show us her work!

More colors from MI.

Teach me Your way, O Lord, and I will walk in Your truth;
give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
Ps. 85:11

THANK YOU, DORIS!!
Look at all this beautiful yarn that was brought to me yesterday!
This will make soooo many bright, beautiful hats, mittens, scarfs, sweaters and afghans!
I will definitely have enough to keep my fingers busy for awhile!!

Grasshoppers are everywhere!!

I will listen to what God the Lord will say;
He promises peace to His people, His saints-
but let them not return to folly.
Ps. 85:8

Think about your own circumstances. Are you so closely identified with the Lord's life that you are simply a child of God, continually talking to Him and realizing that everything comes from His hands: The life of our your Lord is to become your vital, simple life, and the way He worked and lived among people while here on earth must be the way He works and lives in you.
O. Chambers

Fall color in MI

The Old Presque Isle Lighthouse.

Loomed hats.
It does feel good to get back on the bike!

We are not here to prove that God answers prayer,
but to be living trophies of God's grace.
O. Chambers.

We are home.
It was a much needed restful, peaceful, relaxing few days.
This is my 'water fix'! To me, there is nothing in the world as soul soothing as wide open spaces. Being able to see forever. Where the sky reaches the water.

I also got a 'yarn fix'!
We went to a real yarn shop!!
What a wonderful experience!! The people were just so incrediably friendly and wonderful! And all the yarn was so beautiful!
I came home with some locally grown, spun and dyed wool which is telling me it wants to be a scarf for me with perhaps a pattern from Modular Knits. And this self patterning ball of yarn will be a hat for Hubby and a hat for me.

Here is what I worked on while on the road and in the evenings in the motel rooms.
My plan was to finish the green baby blanket. But due to lack of planning ahead, I ran out of yarn! (I have the yarn, I just didn't take it all with me!) But I did finish this green hat and start another baby blanket. This one is will be a long-term project. My 'take-along' project.

Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.
Ps. 68:19

I will be away for a few days!

I was just playing around this afternoon.
Ended up with this hat!

May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make His face shine upon us,
that Your ways may be know on earth,
Your salvation among all nations.
Ps. 67:1-2

I got bored with my current projects,
so I knitted a hat yesterday and played around with some color.

"For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict."
Luke 21:15

The wind blows wherever it pleases, you hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
John 3:8

The day is Yours, and Yours also the night;
You established the sun and moon.
It was You who set all the boundries of the earth;
You made both summer and winter.
Ps. 74:16-17

Another pair of children's mittens.
And I have just learned that the local DVS will take clothes!
I am excited because this will give me an excuse to try out some new stitches and at the same time be able to fill a need. How much more perfect could it be?!

And on a personal note, I am officially 'at that age'!! I need reading glasses.
Ok, to be honest, I've probably needed them for some time but am just now getting around to it! I wonder why it took me so long? They REALLY make knitting in the evenings SO much more comfortable!
Of course, new glasses means new case and in order to keep track of them, they need a strap to keep them around my neck!


GOD, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see.
To Him be honor and might forever. Amen.
1 Tim. 6:15-16

Hubby and I made a quick trip over to the river yesterday afternoon.
Found a few wonderfully beautiful flowers and fungi!

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
1 Tim. 6:17

A couple of scarves.
One with Bernat Boa with Lamb's Pride Worsted.
One with Bernat Eyelash with acrylic.

Godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Tim. 6:6-8

Here are 13 Black Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillars.
After taking this picture, I went out to the garden and found more! I now have 30!
Here's my thinking: I keep finding these little critters in our patch of dill in the middle of the flower beds. I know that as soon as they are big, they will drop off and crawl away to find a place to make a cocoon and winter over. But as soon as it frosts, we will be running the mower through the entire flower bed, so chances are they will be killed. So I am bringing them in. I will let them cocoon in the box, then take the box out to the barn. In the spring I will set it outside and open the lid and as they hatch they can fly away!

Here is one of them that I found yesterday. He had just finished shedding.

I was given an generous donation of beautiful yarn yesterday!
THANK YOU, NONA!!!

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
1 Tim. 6:10