IT'S BEEN A WHILE

I've been busy but doesn't seem like I've accomplished hardly anything at all, even to the point of procrastinating doing this blog post.  My morning routine with coffee is checking for antique rug listings.  While I did find a couple new ones, which I'll show in a future post, below is a Flying Eagle and Shield in case this one interests anyone for America's 250th Birthday.  No date was provided for age, but comes from the estate of Vincent McGrath and measures 26 x 48.

Speaking of America's birthday, I think my decision has been made on what I'll hook.  But the decision isn't actual until it is drawn on linen.  This time I plan to have a plus one for when frustration sets in.  

Now an update on my leg injury.  April 1st is when I hurt my leg; wish it was my April Fools joke on you but it did happen.  Here are two photos, the day it occurred and again this morning.

   

I'd have thought the redness would have been reduced since I've taken such good care of it.  I wash the area, apply hydrogen peroxide, then apply Mupirocin ointment.  Right after the injury I used triple antibiotic ointment then remembered I had an old prescription of Mupirocin.  Yeah, I'm one of those who saves old meds just in case.  All that would have occurred is the med would lose it's strength over the years.

SO, today went to Urgent Care to have it checked.  The leg wasn't feverish, and no red stripe going up the leg.  Better safe than sorry so spent over an hour at the doctor and was given a new prescription of Mupirocin and oral antibiotic for 10 days.  Surely it will be on its way to recovery now.

Sorry with the boring post, am hoping the next one will be more fun for you to read.  Happy hooking.

Saundra

PLANNING AHEAD

While I'm presently still tolerating hooking the floral, I'm thinking ahead  to the next project.  This year is America's 250th Birthday and want to hook a rug commemorating that event.  Perhaps one of the following will entice you to hook your own Semi-quincentennial rug.

The 13 star eagle rug below was hooked in the 1800's.

Someone hooked the rug below to celebrate the Centennial birthday of America, but adding 8 more letters to say "Semi Quincentennial" would make for a larger rug, if this is your choice.

Not long ago the God Bless America rug is what I'd planned to hook, but not sure now as I'm looking thru my patriotic rug photos.

I have already hooked two of the three sections of this design below, so the crossed flags in the heart would be the next to hook one day.

A 13 star rug hooked in the 1800's shown below.

This heavenly Eagle is one I recently found.

I've long admired the following patriotic rug, but haven't hooked it yet.

And this Eagle rug below is gaining popularity with me.  

Believe it or not, the next two colorful rugs are antique; the eagle is said to have been hooked 1865 by the auction house.  Whew, those bright colors hurt my eyes.

This one has a hooked date of 1933.

For those of you who draw your own rugs, perhaps one of these strike your fancy.  If not, Polly Minick, Cathy Stephan and Maria Barton have some great patriotic rugs.

Don't know which I'll choose or even if the patriotic rug will begin immediately after the Shelburne Bouquet is done.  Do I want to start it this early or wait until maybe May to be closer to July 4th?  But first must finish the floral.

Happy hooking.

Saundra

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UPDATES on STUFF

 Am bewildered on how to continue on the rug.  In the beginning plans were to do the hit and miss background like the antique, but found it too time consuming with the trial and error of picking the right colors.  And, it never looked like the antique to me.

So thought I'd try another tactic.  The central flowers are still the focal point of the rug and with a less busy background.  Below you can see the hit and miss on the left and the green mixture on the right.  The right side is not nearly as dramatic as the left but seems softer on the eyes to me.  Besides, the border will provide plenty of interest and won't fight with the hit and miss background inside.

I can understand how people collect UFO's.  This one would certainly be on that pile right now.  Problem with those UFO's is once you lose interest and it's out of sight it is hard to go back and they never get finished.  That is why I fight so hard to finish what I start ~ even while gritting my teeth, lol.

After my yard work injury Maureen asked if my tetanus vaccine was up to date.  UH, I didn't know.  So yesterday I went thru my vaccination records and learned my last shot was August 2013.  They are recommended every 10 years so was overdue.  This morning I had a tetanus booster shot; thanks Maureen.

Decided to switch out my nighttime window screen to make it more spring like.  This is a quilt applique I made one year for my mom for Mother's Day.  There is a cup of coffee on the table, mother's all day beverage, and family photos.  The tallest photo is of mother's parents, others are her brothers, me and my brother.

That concludes the post.....Happy Easter everyone.

Saundra

YESTERDAY

Oh what a wonderfully warm and beautiful day it was upon waking up yesterday morning.  Plans were for me to get outside right after breakfast to do yard work, including picking up the numerous pinecones which had fallen over several weeks.  But other work was planned too before the temperature rose high in the afternoon.

Pinecones were the first order of the day and after picking up over 100 decided to stop bending for awhile and give my back a break.  Instead focused on removing a huge pine branch from the front yard which had snapped off with the recent high winds.  Was too heavy for me to lift so dragged it to the side wooded area where I started to push it further in.  Until....

That is the right side of my right leg.  As I was pulling the branch and trying to position it inside the wooded area the weight shifted and a sturdy nub of a branch penetrated my sweat pants into the leg.  Then as it moved it pulled flesh to expose raw meat.  It hurt like heck and don't know how deep it went into my leg as I didn't want to open the wound.

Left my yard tools there, came in the house to wash and medicate my wound.  Kept my leg elevated so the blood would coagulate.  Since it was getting close to lunchtime decided to eat and continue with my leg lifted.  Then it got too hot and came inside to hook.  This was the afternoon temps yesterday.

A cold front came thru last night which produced a thunderstorm and rain, so temperature is nowhere near that today and I'm wearing a sweatshirt.  Normally I keep my winter thermostat set at 63 but the previous day plus yesterday increased the inside temp to a very warm 68.

Sorry for the boring post and will try to make up for it next time.

Saundra

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