Stitchy Stuff & Other Stuff

It seems like it's been a while since I posted much in the way of stitchy stuff.  I will post some today, but first I want to share these photos of some baby birds in a small nest located in a very small Japanese maple near our back porch.

I know you can't see them very well, but there are 3 babies.  When I saw the eggs in the nest, I couldn't believe it.  They were spotted blue & were smaller than jellybeans! I couldn't imagine anything growing inside them, but here they are   : )   It's hard to tell how really small the nest & the baby birds are from the photo itself.  This is a photo of the tree, but it's still difficult to get the concept.  The tree itself comes up to about my shoulders.

I'm also going to share another daylily photo. As you can see in the above photo, many of the daylilies are no longer blooming, but this one ... which I've shown you before ... had a much deeper color to it than in the last photo I shared so I decided to show it to you again   : )

I was in a real stitching funk for a while thanks to Shepherd's Bush & their Merry Merry Be kit without enough thread to finish the design.  I thought I might be able to make something out of it despite there not being enough red thread in the kit, but as I literally forced myself to continue along, I discovered there was also not enough light green thread & the dark green thread seems to be leaning the same way.  I just can't stand looking at it anymore.  I've decided that I have 4 ways to handle this.

1.  Do a Shirlee.

2.  Send it to the local shooting range for target practice.

3  Send it back to Shepherd's Bush telling them exactly what I think about their kit assembling practices.

4.  Give it to someone who wants it for God knows what reason.

If anyone is keen on #4, leave a comment here & tell me.  If more than 1 person is interested in having this kit, knowing that there is no red & not enough green threads to complete it, I will toss the names in a bowl & draw one on I don't know ... let's say Friday, August 9.  You'll get whatever threads remain, the kit photo, the buttons, & the trim along with the pattern & instructions.  Best of luck to any brave souls who choose this option.  

This SB kit almost put me off stitching, but I have started the Lizzie*Kate Friends Are Like Angels traveling pattern & hope to finish it sometime this week so it can travel to someone else.  I'll post when I've finished stitching it & ask at that time if anyone wants to stitch it next.  

Not much new on the medical front.  The increase in dosage of the old heart medication & the addition of the new one isn't working well.  I fear the ablation is the next step but I will know more when I talk with the doctor again.  We are not busy packing so obviously we have not yet sold the house so nothing is new on that front either.

I hope you all have been having a great weekend!  The weather here almost seems fall like at times.  Some of our trees are even changing color!  Happy dance, happy dance ... winter is just around the corner   : )