Were Is Time Going?!

 The autumn time in Northeast New Brunswick is so beautiful to take in as nature sings out fall colours. Where did the summer go, I tried to savour every day, it had wings & flew into autumn & soon it too would evolve into winter. I know I could not live without seasons coming & going. With my favourite saying, 'This too will pass' with winter coming.

The winter too has its own beauty & seems to last the longest!

I've been working on Edyta Sitar's SAL with Seasons In Blue & have nearly completed that project.

The month 10 was a busy appliqued one!

It's a monthly sew-along with her Seasons In Blue book, you do one or more of the 16 quilt blocks to make the quilt. This is much like Lori Holt's Scrappiness Is Happiness that I did this summer. This quilt is scrappy too with all my neutral backgrounds & blue fabric scraps.

I'm hoping it is going to look OK when it is all together!

I was going through my background scraps & found a piece of French writing on it...

Then I had an idea from watching  Vloger to make French hens, yes, three French hens!!

This is the scrap that is left from that scrap & I had crocheted a red, white, and blue basket with scrap fabric & that would be their nest!

I love how they turned out from scraps to an idea!

This was what I saw from my sewing room window last week, the pigeons were enjoying the water fountain/birdbath. lol All the garden cement decor has been brought in for the winter now so the snow & ice won't damage them. I hope the Thompson water sealer keeps the gargoyles safe through their first winter season.

The Thanksgiving bird was delicious this year & we don't eat turkey again until Christmas Day. Bill covered the top of the bird with a woven blanket of bacon to keep everything moist & yummy.

I tried something new with the grapevines this year, a grapevine orb!

It was quite the job using the hog grips to put the metal holding rings around the vines. My hands are losing strength due to arthritis, very frustrating as I use my hands for many of my crafting items. 

The last of the visiting friends/family this year was Sandy from London, a girlfriend that I had not seen for four years due to the Covid restrictions & life's timing. She is the owner of The Red Door Antique Shoppe in London & always enjoys seeing the antiques here on the East Coast. She took home a few treasures from this visit.

Bill was arriving from Holland at Pearson Toronto Airport & she was arriving from London ON at the airport, they met & flew to Moncton together. They arrived at midnight & then the drive to Hardwickee was in a terrible rain storm having them dodge construction road signs on the highway in the dark!!

One of many things we cannot control is the weather!

The sunny days would open up & she had a great time taking in the views from our shoreline. I was having a bout of sciatica & knee pain, not making a very good walking buddy for her.

Bill managed to get the lawn cut, hopefully, for the last time before the snow flies, we had a very heavy frost the day after this photo was taken.

Donald has settled into his new job at Kone Elevator & does the NE of New Brunswick service/maintenance. He does Don does 2500km on an average each week! Nothing is close by in all these rural areas & schools are now open & servicing them needs to be done also.

Gordo has beautifully fit into our family & it's like he has always been here!

I am keeping up with the daily number of sleeps until Christmas...

Where does the time go?! 

On November 4th I am doing my first craft show at the Baie-Ste-Anne Community Center with some of my sewing goods. It is a 6-hour show so it should be a good one! I still have pieces to finish so I need to stay focused & not do anything new in the meantime. lol

Thank you for stopping in on this virtual visit with me & I'm sorry about being so tardy with my blogging but life does get in the way & time flies by way too fast. 

Take care and stay healthy, health is what keeps us going in a positive direction & I'm noticing it more & more as I have turned into a senior! A privilege that many are denied.

Hugs

Cynthia xXx

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

We had visitors from Ontario staying with us for a week & upon leaving they gifted us with this wonderful decor turkey!

I called it Tommy the Turkey, looks great in the bay window. He was on the porch but the nights were getting cool & the condensation was all over everything, so inside he came. lol

I didn't go all out with the decorating this year, just put up a few pieces.

Mostly fall leaves & harvest so far. Soon the turkey smell will be in the house as the stuffed turkey cooks. 

Peter & Joan enjoyed the walking trails & the shoreside walks that they took together. It was the very best weather that week & they couldn't have come at a better time to enjoy the sights of the northeast coast.

Bill & Peter brought up a 'sculpture piece of nature' for me, I love it, seaweed & all!

The weather was great & the green grass & colourful landscape was being showy for our guests.

I love how my potting shed's landscape has come to life around it. The mosquitoes were horrid in the month of September, chasing us inside from their attacks on us! With several cooler nights, their number went noticeably down!

Bridget & Baxter enjoyed the company of Peter as he played stick with them & went for walks with Bill & truck rides to get the mail too, Peter was part of their pack. lol

My rug is done! I may change out the darker selvage pieces for a few string pieces that were left. The material was really close to running out!

With this, many sleeps...I have so much sewing to do!!

Bill & I went to see Jimmy the Janitor a stand-up comedian with Peter & Joan, Don & Christine, & Nick & Leslie. It was a fun 90-minute show.

I had never seen him in person, we had his cassette tapes from back in the '90s when we were in the maritime with the two young boys...his show is adult content now & Nick enjoyed him.

I've been trying to get myself in a better state of wellness & have started back to the exercise classes twice a week with strength & cardio. This week my girlfriend Deb, my bike partner...talked me into an Aqua Fitnessness class that lasted 55 minutes. Those who know me know I DON'T do water, well I don't know me because I did & I loved it. It was terrifying at first, I had a floatation belt put on & going down the ramp the water got deeper & my breathing stopped. Deb was so patient with me & told me to hold the handle on the ramp as we made our way to the 4ft area. I'm 5'2" so the water seemed very close.

Once the music started & we were all moving it was wonderful on these aching arthritic joints and after 55 minutes I felt like a new person, the pain was gone, it felt wonderful. The pain did come back but the memory of the Aqua Fitness class will have me going back next week.

It's like that saying "When was the last time you did something for the first time?" Life just keeps surprising me. 

Last night my stove's circuit board went...again. & this is our second stove since the kitchen remodel in 2017. 

With Thanksgiving weekend starting it is a happy thing that Nick & Leslie didn't want their old stove in their remodelled kitchen & Bill stored their old stove in our shop. That is the stove that will cook our Thanksgiving Day turkey. And writing this just reminded me to take the turkey out of the freezer & place it in the fridge! Done!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thank you for stopping in & I hope you have a wonderful weekend wherever you are. xXx

Hugs, 

Cynthia