Happy Groundhog Day!

First off I want to say thank you for wishing me well regarding my upset tummy yesterday.  The peppermint tea actually did help!  I only had this one tea bag which was sent to me as a little thank you gift when I ordered some of my favorite tea (Hot Cinnamon Sunset by Haney & Sons) from a supplier on Amazon or eBay.  I usually buy directly from the company but went through this supplier instead for some reason.  Anyway, he included the peppermint tea bag (organic) so I had it here to try sometime.  It was actually very good!

I decided to lay low yesterday so basically my day was spent in the recliner stitching on the January Word Play.  I learned, if nothing else, that my stitching is even slower than I thought it was.  I really should have called my blog The Slower Than Molasses Stitcher or something like that.  After several hours of stitching all I got done were the 6 bottom rows that were still remaining on Frosty, a couple small snowflakes over on that side, the leaf, vine, & berries to the right of Frosty, & maybe a little over half the cart.  I still have several words, a bird, Frosty's arms along with his scarf & buttons, & the cart wheels/handle to do.  What's that going to take me ... a week of constant stitching?  I know I've said in the past that I don't care about the time it takes me to stitch something ... it's the process of stitching that I enjoy ... but it's like I've been working on this thing half my life!  My goal is to finish stitching it in the next day or two & then have a big cyber party celebrating it being done   : )

I have several things to take pictures of but my new camera, purchased in October, is driving me nuts.  It has this built-in stabilizer thingie in it & that is one of the reasons I bought it.  It's supposed to keep things steady so your pictures don't blur.  It was doing that for a while but the other day I tried to photograph my progress on Frosty & I got blurry photo after blurry photo.  Grrrrr!  If anyone has any suggestions to remedy this ... or suggestions for a replacement camera that will take a good picture even while you're galloping around on a horse ... please let me know.

Today is Groundhog Day.  I have heard that the famous Phil saw his shadow so we are in for 6 more weeks of winter.  However, Gracie ... the groundhog who lives underneath a small grouping of trees in our front yard, has been roaming around for at least 2 weeks now so she obviously does not agree with Phil.  All this talk of groundhogs today made me think of a wonderful movie ...

John & I love this movie & watch it every so often.  Very funny!  I am going to have to ask him to get it out today so we can watch it again.  I highly recommend it!  Happy Groundhog Day!