HHM 9-11-2017

As I look outside my window:::

It's fairly cool right now but today's high is to be in the 80's. The sun is shining. Downtown is starting to wake up, businesses opening and getting ready for the day, cars going up and down Main Street.  The Lion's Club put out flags today for 9-11.  They look really pretty blowing in the breeze

 
Right now I am::: 

Sitting here at the shop waiting on hubby to get back from a job, waiting on customers, watching my YouTube subscriptions and Praying this pinched nerve will hurry up and stop being pinched.

Currently Reading:::
still nothing on the kindle app
trying to get in the habit of reading my Bible every day.  Its a struggle

On my to do list today:::
1. Pay some bills
2. Finish up things for tomorrow's Cardinal Crawl at the local community college
3.  I brought the entrelac blanket to work on and I also have some bracelets to work in if I feel up to it
4.  fold and put clothes away
5.  anything else I feel up to doing without over-doing.  I'm trying to sorta rest.

Today's Lunch:::
Probably McDonalds or chicken strips from the grocery store deli

Preparing for Fall weather:::
Since Hurricane Harvey came our temps haven't been too bad.  I'm not normally one to be excited about cooler weather but I am kinda looking forward to it because I want to wear some layers, my shawls that I have made, and I hope to make more shawls and hats and gloves, etc for my family and myself.  I'm also looking for a real reason to drink hot chocolate and hot coffee drinks.  Upstairs we have done some things over the summer, I should do a post about that I guess, that hopefully will help this winter be a wee bit warmer.

What I am crocheting:::

Well.....I haven't been able to do much lately because of time or this darn pinched nerve, but besides my ongoing WIPS I have been making crochet bracelets. (sorry for the play thing, it's not really a video it's a picture of the video).  I plan to make several of these and hopefully find some other patterns to hook up to sell at my store, Smelly Good Stuffs.

What I am wearing today:::

Jeans, blue Parsons Vikings t-shirt (local high school) and tennis shoes.  Hair in a pony tail and I'm wearing a hdaeband.

From the camera:::
Fascinating adventure on Labor Day!  You can watch Hubby's and My adventure on my YouTube Channel

Something I Recently Made:::

an order for yarn online.......AND I have finally got set up to do what I originally wanted to do!  I am now set up with Ice Yarns to resell their yarn.  I have a Facebook Group that I set up to sell on for now.  You are welcome to join.  I hope to have yarn to list in about a week.

Praise/Prayer List:::
PRAISE My Uncle is doing better but still has a ways to go

Prayer business
Prayer My pinched nerve
Prayer My grandpa he fell and broke his wrist a few weeks back



I'm joining Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom for HHM.  Go visit her and the rest of those who have joined in. 

Thank you for stopping by and visiting. 

If at First You Don't Succeed......

Try, try again! Yup! I did and I'm hoping for success. The Craftsy thing just isn't going to do for me because there seems to not be any real perks with being an affiliate. BUT I finally did get set up with Ice Yarn to be a reseller. I must say there is a learning curve to getting the best deal when you purchase from them to resell. I'm still learning but I'm hoping to place my first order on Monday after I deposit some money into the bank to transfer to my PayPal account. I have created a facebook group, for anyone who wants to join, to sell the yarn on. if you would like to join you can do so HERE.

I do currently have ONE items for sale on the FB Group.  It was a trial order.  By the way Ice Yarn is amazing!  I have used it a couple times and have really liked it!

Nomad Thoughts ~~ Travel Trailers

Travel Trailers....such a broad term.  Travel trailers in this post are pretty much inclusive for any pull behind trailer: travel trailers, 5th wheels, pop-up campers, and toy haulers.  Are 4 are common type.  For the most part I do not want a pull behind, however there are a couple exceptions that I will explain in a bit.   Overall I don't think pull behind trailers look very sturdy.  You have everything you own rolling on 2-4 little bitty wheels.  In my case, I would have to buy a heavy duty truck to go along with it (added expense).  Would have to have insurance on both the trailer and the truck.    Depending on what type of travel, new price ranges between $8,000 and $100,000.  Another downside for me, is from something I read recently.  Should there be trouble while you are camping, like storms or uninvited guests (as in humans looking to be malicious) you are kinda in a pinch for getting away easily.  For example the article I read, a young lady was "boondocking" (camping out in the boonies away from anything and no or spotty cell service) and she had an instance with several people coming around in the wee early morning hours banging on her door, throwing her things around outside, etc.  She wasn't sure who they were or why they were even there.  She had little or no cell service and wasn't able to call for help.  Once they left and she felt it safe to get out of there, she still had to leave the safety of he trailer and hook it to her vehicle and pull out of there.....in the middle of the night.  No thank you.  That is way too scary to even think about for me! Now, for the 2 exceptions to my no travel trailer idea.  I mentioned  in a HHM post that we were trying to get my '74 super beetle back on the road.  Wouldn't it be fun to travel in it some day?  Think of all the "friends" you would meet if you pulled into a campground driving a vintage vehicle.  Especially a "slug bug"  (for those who are old enough to remember driving down the road and getting punched in the arm at the sight of them).  :-) The beetles have a very low tow rate, I'm guessing because the motor is in the back.  The weight of an average light weight trailer would be way too much.  I have found a few motorcycle "pop-up" campers that would work for my beetle.           But....if I could find something like this in good shape.....I'd be super excited.  Watch the video below from YouTube that I've drooled over.... P.S. that beetle looks exactly like mine!!!!!!!  Makes sense since it says 1974 in the video :-)
P.S. my Super Beetle is back on the road.  I drive it around town all the time.  It's super fun, kinda like driving a big go-cart.

Summer Heat Busters

Thankfully we have only had about 2 weeks of temps near 100 and heat index well over 100.  God has been good for sure.

One thing I did to help with the summer heat was put construction paper on the window.  It sure was pretty but I'm not sure how well it helped. Probably more than I realized.  Each morning when we got up we would close the window and put the curtains down.

I also added some aluminum foil to the top windows, but I think it added to the heat, plus opening and closing the window it came off pretty quickly.

each evening after the sun went down we would open the window and put the fan in.  Sometimes pulling the cooler air in, other times blowing the hot air out.  By the time we actually went to bed it wasn't too bad.  Still on the warm side, but hubby and I each had a fan blowing across us so we made it.

In the evening we would also put the moving blanket down (the door stayed open) to keep the heat from the rest of the building out and the cooler air in.

We did add a small window AC in the boy's room and had a fan blowing into our room but it didn't do much good, well it wasn't cold like we expected it to be.  It probably helped more than we realized it did.

This past week it cooled off down into the 80's  PTL! and we took the AC out of the window.  So far we have been quite comfortable.  I'd like it to be cooler, but then again we don't have as much trouble going out in the heat since we keep a rather warm "house".

 

How have you done this summer?

Vacation Planning

So.....the last time we took a vacation, meaning more than one day off at a time, was about 4 years ago.  We had had a rough week and just said "we're leaving".  We (me, hubby, and youngest son) took off and went to Branson, Mo.  Since then it's just been a day here and there that we have taken off.  This year I told hubby I wanted to take a "real" vacation and be gone more than one day.  Scary, I know but I don't want to feel rushed on whatever we decide to take off and enjoy.  I have been putting back a little money here and there trying to save for the occasion.  I was doing good until we fixed my '74 Super Beetle.  That took almost all my saved vacation money.  It was worth it though.  It's fun to drive and gets really good gas mileage (estimated 20 mpg) compared to our van (estimated 10-12 mpg).  I'm still determined to take a vacation and have been planning and saving.  I'd like to go in September, after summer is over. Here are my current ideas: #1 Go to Branson, Mo and just hang out for a couple days playing mini golf and sight seeing.  No Silver Dollar City.....too expensive unless we can find a buy 1 get 1 coupon or something like that.  It's way too commercialized anymore too and just doesn't have the "feel" that it once did.  My only problems with this idea is the cost of a motel room and with this is seeing too many "not clean" motel videos.  I'd rather sleep in my van than on a motel bed.  Although we haven't had too many problems in the past at the motels we have stayed at in Branson. #2 Rent a cabin near Roaring River and spend a day hiking and enjoying the woods and nature.  Maybe see about renting a boat one of the days and spend some time on Table Rock Lake.  My only problem with this is seeing too many "not clean" hotel videos.  Honestly though I bet the cabins would be cleaner than a motel room. #3 Go camping......probably not this one because I'm NOT sleeping in a tent and the van just isn't ready for camping yet. ;-)  Of course I guess we could take our mattress and put it in the tent and sleep on it.  Anyone have a pop-up camper we can borrow? #4 Just take an extra day off in a row (2 or 3 instead of 1) and go do something fun and come home each night and sleep in my own bed, BUT Then we couldn't sleep in and we would have to drive there and back each day, which would probably take more gas money.  But Fuzzy wouldn't think we left her (she would still have youngest son at home). If we choose #4 we will need to decide ahead of time where we wanted to go so we can explore someplace new instead of going to the same old places we always go. Either option I want to only be 2 hours away at the most (Branson is 3, but there is a lot to do there, and we have our favorite spots). No worries I will share all about it after we get back.  It will be a couple months yet though.

10 Stitch Rainbow Blanket Update

I haven't worked on it a lot, but here recently I have been working on my rainbow 10 stitch tunisian blanket.  I had to stop and get some more leftover balls of yarn and decided to take a picture.  I don't coordinate colors, I just reach in and grab.  I think it's turning out pretty good.  If you're curious about the 10 stitch blanket I made a tutorial and posted it to YouTube.  It's my first one ever.  You can watch it HERE .

You Might Think I'm a Flake

and quite honestly sometimes I feel like one.  I can't count the number of different blogs I have had over the years.  I hop around so much.  Sometimes I export all my posts, sometimes they have died along with the deleted blog.  I wish I had some of my original posts back when I first started blogging.  I originally started posting here on blogger back in 2004 or so when we were homeschooling.  We did flat travelers and we used the blog as a way to save postage and to let the visiting flat know what was going on each day.  Those are forever gone. *sigh*

I've blogged at Blogger, way back when it was blogspot.  I've blogged at homeschoolblogger (I think that's what it was called), I blogged at Xanga, Wordpress, Typepad, on my own sever (usually wordpress).....I tried complicated formats like drupal and joomla and probably a few more spots I've forgotten about over the years.  All in all though I believe I have been blogging [all over the place] for about 13 years.  One place I always seem to come back to though, is Blogger.

This last move and return was a big disappointment for me.  If you remember (I may have posted this but I can't remember) I was trying to get set up as an affiliate to sell yarn.  I  thought it would look more professional if my blog, that I was using to promote the products, was hosted on my own server.  That's the reason for the move about a month or so ago.  I tried 3 different companies  and 2 turned me down due to some affiliate legality between their "home state" and Kansas.  The 3rd company I couldn't even finish the application process because their site was messed up.  I attempted to contact them several times and never received a reply.  So I guess 3 strikes and I'm out.  

Since there are no real reasons to host on my own server anymore I came back here.  I have copy pasted the posts and dated them the same as "the other place".  If you get a link there, that's OK.  You should also be able to find that same post here on the same date.

Another hopping around I have been doing is hopping between YouTube videos and posting.  Since I have Adsense set up on YouTube I am not able to set it up on my blog.  At least I haven't figured it out anyway. LOL!  I don't like making videos but seeing my view counts go up, up, up and my estimated earnings, it is getting excited.  I'm no where near getting a check from them (you need at least $100 before they "pay you"), but if I keep making videos that people are watching I'll get there some day.  I don't expect to make millions from YouTube, but a few hundred here and there would be nice.  I will link to my most recent videos soon.  If you're in a hurry to watch them though you can visit my cannel.

Thanks for understanding.  I hope to see you all soon.<3 p="">