2021 Project 365 – Week Twenty-eight

I don’t know if you’ve seen the controversial news that Instagram has decided that in the era of Reels and TikTok, it’s no longer primarily a photo sharing app. I’ve apparently jumped on the video bandwagon because, for the third week in a row you get a video! I know you are very excited.
 
Sunday, July 4^th
I chopped up some fruit – it’s our red white & blue for the 4^th!
 

Dr. M saw a hummingbird moth on the bee balm. They’re so freaky & cool.
 

Monday, July 5^th  
Dr. M got new flowers for his mother’s grave. He was feeling “festive.”
 

I went to Daddy & Sue’s for dinner. I spent almost the entire time working the puzzle. It’s funny that I caught the teenager on her phone – she was almost as obsessed with the puzzle as I was.
 

Tuesday, July 6^th    
My version of the “How it started; how it’s going” challenge. I thought my morning bedhead was especially fetching.
 

Morning glories and scenes from the yard. Dr. M mowed his dad’s yard on Monday and ours on Tuesday. He’s a hard worker!
 

Wednesday, July 7^th    
Nessie was on the loose!
 

Thursday, July 8^th  
Another jewelry malfunction – I was wearing a magnetic “shawl pin” (SO COOL – it keeps me from punching holes in my clothes & keeps my yarn apparel in place) and this necklace kept getting stuck to it. It was an interesting look.
 

Friday, July 9^th   
Mailed off some books to some special kids. I had to laugh at the inscription on one of them. I always plan to be eloquent, but then in the moment I am mostly awkward (plus I have terrible handwriting). For example, did you know that Dr. M & I are God’s great aunt & uncle? At least that’s how it read to me in retrospect. Ha!
 

Stopped by Daddy & Sue’s after work and we FINISHED THE PUZZLE! HUZZAH! (Also, my voice on the video is VERY ANNOYING to me. Ugh. How do the people around me stand it?)
 

Saturday, July 10^th  
Temperature blanket update.
 

I finished the shawl I’ve been working on. It needs blocking & the ends woven in. I mostly like it, but there is one issue: it’s about 2/3 the size it’s supposed to be. The black yarn I used was “light fingering” instead of regular fingering. I didn’t think it would make that big a difference, but apparently it does. It is SO TEMPTING to get the correct weight yarn & rip all this back out & redo it. I’ll think about it. What I’ll probably do instead is just live with this size and make another one with completely different colors. We shall see. If you have an opinion, let me know.
 

So this morning I was fixing my breakfast, and had finished spreading Laughing Cow cheese on my toast, went & got a fork, and then looked down and saw two case knives in my hand. So that’s how things are going for me. How about you?