Pumpkin Sunrise

Spring has arrived this week in full force.  Each day while I'm outside I see new growth and green.  The maple trees are about to sprout their leaves and the air combined with the sunshine feels different.  Hopeful, fresh and abundant.  Has spring arrived for you? Each season I find myself writing out some goals, ideas and tasks that need my attention.  I yearn for inspiring activities to fill my time and my soul.  This season my focus will be about health.  For physical health, I've been marking new recipes and ideas to try new foods at least twice before I make a judgement.  How easy it is for me to fall into a rut of sameness.  Sameness is my balm for feeling secure but spring heralds in a need to shake up the routine. Another physical health goal is to continue my walking.  I have two routes that are alternated at whim but maybe this spring, we will venture to new roads.  Unfortunately loose dogs in the neighborhood will dictate how adventurous we are. Most impo

This week I've been knitting two projects.  The first is a citron shawl  that is super easy and my knitting while reading project.  I am enjoying this knit and the simple stockinette stitches.  My other project is a second hitofude  cardigan with long sleeves.  I really enjoyed knitting this sweater the first time and now that I'm repeating the pattern, it's like visiting with an old dear friend. My reading has been the same as last week, I'm reading The Shipping News and the plot is slowly evolving.  My other read is Pollyanna  and by the time you read this I'll have finished this book.  The novel is uplifting and Pollyanna talks to the townspeople of being "glad".  She of course wins over ever single person and resolves all of their problems. This book would be a great one to read to children. What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments    in the comment section with a link to your blog.  My weekend was full and interesting.  Early in the morning on Saturday we took Frodo to the vet because he was feeling poorly.  We walked out with medicine and today he is acting a tad bit better, I think the spring grasses are irritating to him.  He has been hiding under the ottoman or in the photo above under the back porch stairs.  If he was a human he could do with some therapy!  He is easily upset and everyone at the vet hospital knows his gentle sensitive soul. We also hauled our unusual recyclable "stuff" to a recycling fundraiser only to arrive and find out it was canceled.  So, we drove around our little town and the adjacent ones finding recycling places to avoid taking back the "stuff".  While initially we were irked, we had great fun, googling

Ever so slowly I am bringing back my shamrock plant back from the dead.  This process ties in with the Easter season.  Many of my plants get too much love (over watering) or not enough love (under watering).  Then I'm faced with adjusting my love for them. Have you ever thought about rewriting your inner dialogue.  You know, the stuff we say to ourselves or think to ourselves day in day out.  Sometimes that dialogue can be negative or maybe not productive.  I've worked diligently these past years on focusing on the present and being overall positive.  But life isn't stagnant and we are face with changes.  When I'm sad, frustrated or worried, eventually I tire of those feelings and stop and truly listen to myself. My inner dialogue needs rewriting.  I'm listening to what I believe are facts and they are fiction, my imagination of what could be-what might be and nothing has happened yet. So this week, I'm rewriting my dialogue, every thought is being flippe

Something new is on the needles, happiness and joy!  I started another Hitofude cardigan and this time around I'm making the sleeves long instead of 3/4 length.  I'm guessing and fudging and hoping that the sleeves will look fantastic.  Also, I've mastered the crochet provisional cast on.  My first   Hitofude I was too lazy to dig out a crochet hook and so I knit the beginning with a waste yarn.  After the sleeves were knit up, I was sadden by an entire day of unknitting that lazy decision and have learned my lesson.  Do a proper provisional cast on. My reading is new as well.  I started  The Shipping News  by E. Annie Proulx.  Since I've just started the book, I have no opinions at all.  Let's see how the book goes. What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams

I finished this shawl last week and now it's sitting patiently in a box for the fall weather. The pattern was a fun and easy knit.  If you have knit lace before this would be a great pattern for you. I ran short of yardage and had to end the shawl quickly but with blocking this shawl is a nicely sized.  Blocking makes everything better :)

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments    in the comment section with a link to your blog.  I had a wonderful Easter celebration, did you?  Every day fiesta ware dishes were set aside for my green dishes (royal china- old curiosity shop)  that my grandmother and mother collected from a grocery store while I was a little girl. I have many, many pieces and some of them are chipped or the glaze is ruined, but luckily I can cobble together a place setting for six, sometimes eight if people are not inspecting. The coffee table doesn't look that messy but it still can disturb my inner peace.  Each time I walk by I try to tidy.  Then someone else comes around and undoes my tidy. - we went to morning Mass and now we are in the Easter season! -we walked and wished for slightly warmer weather -there was:  cake, laundry, talking, laughing, dirty dishes, sunshine,