Can you believe it's already September!?????

My goodness! Time is moving so fast these days, it's hard to imagine that we are so far into the year already. Where did the time go? I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that the year has zoomed by me and I may have missed a thing or two as a result .

Well, I hope you are having a good time, even if time is moving along so fast it's hard to keep up with life. I have a gazillion things happening in September, and well the end of August too. Three birthdays the end of August, 2 in September, and a bridal shower, a wedding and a baby dedication....well I think this month tops the list for activities in our family...oh and I forgot to mention we are having our Family Reunion the last week in September as well. So I am spinning around trying to get a lot of loose ends tied, and be ready for that when it happens. The Reunion is at our home, so it we're finishing up a build on a barbecue area outside, and adding a trellis for my Trumpet vine that didn't die when we pulled it up and put a shed on top of it . The thing is sprouting out in other places outside our new fence (about 4 plants out there) and then there are some sprouting inside the fenced area, (about 4 more). So instead of attempting to figure out how to kill them, I decided they are pretty enough that I will let them grow and so we are putting up a trellis by our new shed so that they have somewhere to climb. I already have one climbing up the pine tree in the same location...and hopefully it will do alright there. I am a little concerned that the branches might get a little bothersome for the tree, and I would hate to lose it, so we'll see how this goes. The jury is still out whether it will stay or not .

I have been painting, and managed to flood my laundry room last week, so decided since I had to clean behind the machines in there, I might as well do the painting while I was at it . I suppose that's not the first time something like this has happened and put you into a project a lot sooner than you had intended. Anyway, it is finished, and looks very perky -- I chose a very cool pale yellow with a hint of lime in it...a kind of modern color, and looks very cheerful on the walls. Now to stitch a few projects to decorate the walls. I do have a few things up, but my intention is to make that my folk art and seasonal space, and it will be fun filling the walls with my stitching as I get some time to create those pieces.

I did manage to finish a project last week, and have posted on the right side border, you can go check it out there. It's the Eileen Bennett Rockhome Sampler. I chose my own colors for this, and it is actually fairly soft in color with that darker border on it. It is so hard to get computer screens to show things as they really are, and I think it changes depending on what you are photographing. At times it is almost perfect, other times it's not. It may also have something to do with the photographer, which I am not .

Just thought I would pop in and share a few things with you. I may be taking some pictures of the progress on our barbecue and adding them to this post, so you can see them. Might do that tomorrow, we'll see. There is still an "L" portion, the short end to add to the current barbecue space we're created, so we're not done, but we have added the stone pavers around the area where the cement is, and it added so much to the space. I'm doing this also because we are having the reunion and I wanted a new serving area outside as well as a really nice barbecue grill to cook at. It will be here before we know it.....

BTW, I am also painting two bedrooms, and two bathrooms before we have the reunion and I hope stitching a few roman shades, one for a door, two for the narrow windows that flank my fireplace. The last thing on my list is to organize my stash room and clean out the garage. Not sure the garage will get all the attention it needs before the end of the month, but it will soon afterwards. That's the end of the work list for me this year -- whew !! It's been a year, let me tell you! BUt I am loving how things are shaping up. WE've also pulled out 10 rose bushes and added 7 crepe myrtle in a lovely raspberry color. We'll be replacing the roses we pulled out with 2 wisteria, which I hope will eventually grow over the block wall we put up last year. So that ends the work on the yard for this year, and hopefully my list will be very short in 2009.

I will post pics as we get all this finished...so keep looking in .

Cathy