Another Finish, Ta Dah, and Starts, Jimmy Carter AND.....

 

School Days/Daze is being blocked here at it's drying.  The rectangles with the mixed colors were a bit of a challenge size wise.  Had to edge them differently.  ANd as you can see some are turned horizontally and others vertically. in order to fit right.  In part, because they were very stretchy.  Not sure what stitch was used when they were made, but in some cases I needed to mix stitches when edging to not leave holes, as the side stitches were fairly loose; but am pleased with the end result.  It measures 51 x 61, and was made with 30 squares.

Here's the before picture, though it's not oriented the same way as the finished picture above.  I had to stand on the side to get the best shot for the completed picture.  This is the 3rd afghan I've made while we're here on the island from pieces parts.

And this is the next one I'm working on.  I've begun edging some of the squares, but this picture is before I started edging.  These are all crocheted squares and rectangles.  This one is called Purple Haze..

I finally got around to grabbing my calendar and adding things up for January and added stats to my exercise tab across the top of the blog.  In Jan I did 35 second planks with 10 seconds rest x 4 repeats and did that 4 days, then upped the time again to 40 seconds and did that 4 times, then upped again to 45 seconds and did that 9 days, so in total did 17 planks during January which is an increase I'm happy to say.  

My mileage is up by 6 miles over December, at 115.48 miles.  I did 10 purposeful walks which is also up a bit from December.  I started doing leg lifts to a count of 40 (occasionally 50) and did that 9 times in January..

February is coming along, and since I got my Goodwill bike (see previous blog post), I'm adding some bike rides to my exercise.

A very good read, thought provoking about being Black through the history of one primary family in the south, Jim Crow laws and more.  Add this to your list.

If you've been a frequent visitor to my blog, you know how many WWII historical books I've read/listened to.  So, I consider myself fairly well versed on The War, and how vastly different horrors there were; but I did not know about the plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill.  All these years later after documents have been unsealed, much is still being learned.

History might not show Jimmy Carter to be one of our best Presidents, but, it will show him to be a great man.  A truly involved and caring man.  The work he did after his Presidency is incredible, even without his work with Habitat for Humanity.  He worked so hard for peace in the middle east, and had such a profound understanding of the needs and wants of people.  I found this to be an important read given the sad situation we're in today.  Please read this book.

Another round of beautiful roses, this time gorgeous yellow which is my personal favorite over red..  I always consider yellow to be such a happy color.

Green Acres, Starts and Finishes, Goodwill Bike and more.

 

Green Acres is complete, has been laundered and is now drying/be blocked.  This one came out a bit larger than the previous ghan/Mint Julip.  This one measures 57 x 57, Mint Julip was about 52 x 52

Here's one of the before shots, you can see I moved a few squares around to try and even up the colors a bit.

Next up, School Dazes/Days.  We'll see how this one comes along.  There are no knitted squares in this one; but you can see the multi colored pieces aren't square, but rectangles.  This design has 30 pieces vs 25 that the 2 previous ghans had.

A friend found this bike at The Goodwill for $20.00.  It had a flat in the front and a large hole in the back tire.  So hubby bought a new tire, and 2 new inner tubes, oiled things up, bought a lock and I'm good now until we leave the island.  At that point, I'll return the bike to The Goodwill or one of the many thrift shops here on the island.  (Hilton Head).  In previous years I've rented a bike for our time here; but it was getting a bit pricey.  I've only been out on it twice so far, as we've had lots of wind.

Hubby keeps me in pretty flowers pretty often.  Aren't these orange ones gorgeous!

"One special night" with two of my favorite actors was a very enjoyable movie.  Never saw it when it was new, but pushing buttons one night on Amazon Prime and came across this.  Sweet, and sad........add it to your list.

This book really gets under your skin....as it should.  That's the purpose of it...to make you think, perhaps about things you've not thought of before.  I wouldn't say it's enjoyable, but it is worth the time.  So many forms of trauma.

I watched all the trials on TV so knew quite a bit about Cassidy Hutchinson, but I learned quite a bit more listening to this book.  With her reading it, you really feel like you were there...behind the scenes.  I'm surprised she still considers herself a Republican; but am grateful she spoke up....trouble is, is it enough?  So many others need to, and are those that are speaking up being listened to by the very people who need to here the truth. ???