Pokey Peas Challenge May 2022

nylene - sitting in medical offices doesn't sound like a very fun day - but probably a necessary one. Would love to see a picture of your flower pots. Hope you get scrappy time soon.

No scrapping for me today - but maybe tomorrow. I have some more photos from San Agustin of the rest of us at DD22's reenactment on my desk. And I need to order photos as well - never a fun task.

Prayers for all our pokey friends.

Happy Tuesday Peas! I am getting settled after our apartment ordeal. Suddenly, we had several things that had to be taken care of. As a result, we had to pack up lots of our home and removed it all in a day!!! Geez! We were in a hotel for a week and got back home last Monday. We still are trying to get everything back in order. Whew! All this sudden upheaval triggered my anxiety and grief. Plus, all this happening around Mother's Day was so tough. Thanks nylene for thinking of me that day. When we came home the sink disposal they fixed before we left isn't working! SO frustrating! Now we hope to have it fixed this week. Thanks for hearing my venting! It was so stressful but I am grateful it wasn't worst. This week, I am working on my art and maybe I will finish my puzzle. I started a new embroidery at the hotel and plan to continue it.

I gotta go back and see what you all have been up to. Waving hi and sending hugs to you gals!

Happy Thursday! nylene , I knew your birthday was coming and I hope you had a marvelous day!!!!

My prayers and heart are with all you sweet peas that are having family losses and illnesses! I TOTALLY get it and I hope you take care of yourself, too.

Our home is 80% back to normal! I am so relived! The plumber came yesterday and fix the kitchen sink. So it felt good being able to cook, use and wash dishes finally. Yes, this was a real ordeal!!!

Hopefully, we will have no more interruptions for a while. I felt like last night was my first night sleeping better. grammadee , yes we are back home for over a week now. nylene , I wish I could of rested well at the hotel but we just had too much going on and uncertainty about how long we would be there. But it was cool being next to the mall so I enjoyed walking over there as much as I wanted. Also, there was one of my favorite parks near by so Ron and I went over there as much as we could. So peaceful!

I FINALLY finished my 1,000 piece puzzle!!! That was the biggest puzzle I have ever done. It was hard but I felt so accomplished when I finished!!! Yay!

Puzzle Finished by Kelly Roberts, on Flickr

nylene , I haven't worked on my embroidery this week but I will circle back to it soon. I have been in art mode and loving painting. I look forward to sharing my art when its time. Painting is so soothing for my grieving heart! SO glad I have such a colorful outlet. My scrapping and and card mojo is still on vacation but I have enjoyed seeing you alls layouts. That one you did of your dggd Swayzee is SO adorable and one of my favorites you have done!

joyfulnana - I loved seeing Abbey in one of your layouts. So cute her trying to understand the mouse on the computer. LOL! How is your puzzle going?

Good Morning! This thread moves so fast lol.

nylene I've disconnected the whole crop before too, I felt mortified but it worked out lol. I slow down and check twice now lol. I'm glad you'll be seeing Alex more often. Rudy's last day of school was Thursday. He's officially a second grader and I don't know how the time goes so fast!

grammadee I agree with nylene you are such a good traveler! I am not. I get whiny and miss being home lol. But that's awesome that you have seen all the kids and grands this year and have lots to scrap.

kellyr21 sounds like you have had a LOT going on! It must feel so good to be back home, even if it's in disarray. Your puzzle is fab! I don't think I've done a 1000 piece ever. 500 is the largest one lately.

I've got groceries to get and I decided to switch the sleepover night to Saturday, and then I'll have Bub Sunday too while his dad is at practice. We'll see how this goes, because as I'm writing this, it sounds like a long stretch of time with an active boy lol. I'm going to pick up some bird seed and take him to feed the ducks and play at the park tomorrow.
I decided to start using my cricut more often, but man it's been awhile and I feel like I'm learning all over again and wasting lots of paper for no end result. Maybe I'll sell it all and buy thickers and dies lol.

I hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend!

Oh my Linda LOL what a story and what a photo!! That's hilarious, I'm sure it wasn't at the time, and I'm sure the rumballs weren't either, but it's funny lol.

I survived my Saturday/Sunday with Bub and it went really well. I'm not sure if I want to make it the regular schedule, but I did feel like I got more of my weekend with Friday night and all day Saturday. He came over about 7. We went to the park and one of his cousins just happened to come by too so that was fun for him. We played Pokemon GO and had lunch. It was a pretty chill day.

Now I've got to get myself in gear and get some of the long list of pages I want to do done. I did finally get photos picked out for the Red part of Shimelle's class I'm supposedly taking. I haven't done anything with it yet lol.

kitbop I hope you got your Dad's banking sorted out I haven't had to deal with that yet, but I understand it's a lot. I hope you are enjoying your time off! Things are still pretty slow at work (of course, we finally got enough help) and I'm sure the high gas prices, especially diesel are playing a part. Well that and the weather. I'm not complaining though lol.

My heart is so heavy today, yesterday's shooting was horrific and I can't imagine what those families are going through. It hit pretty close to home with Bub being 7. I can't imagine, I'm so heartbroken for them.

Sending hugs to all my pokey friends. justjac you and Dean have been in my thoughts as well.

joyfulnana - I'm glad you made it through the weekend - sounds like it was fun. Good luck with the photos...looks at the new order of prints that arrived yesterday to join all the old orders that aren't scrappped...yeah, me too

and yes, like you my heart is heavy...those poor children and teachers and their families...horrifying. We so desperately need better gun laws and better mental health diagnosis/treatment here.

kitbop - painting is hard work and I've only ever done one room at a go. I bet it'll be nice when it's all back to rights though. Goof luck with the banking - what a pain.

justjac - your MIL remains in my prayers

(((Hugs))) and prayers for all our Pokies in need


Today is the first day of summer vacation as well as day one of operation buckle down to healthier eating and exercise - the past couple of years I got seriously off track which isn't good as a diabetic. Taking DD15's phone in tonight to hopefully get a new battery. Probably going to need to buy a dryer also - mine died back the beginning of the month. DH has pulled it apart three times now and replaced the belt. I got ONE load dried this morning and it's back to not tumbling. I think he's out of ideas. I'm not heartbroken to replace it - it's been a lemon since day one - we had THREE different warranty repairs in the first year and it's been finicky all along. But I am tired of buying new appliances - since Jan 2021, we've replaced the freezer, the fridge, and the dishwasher.

I don't think I knew about this thread... Pokey Peas???

It was absolutely WONDERFUL to get to spend some real time with grammadee today. Dee did you decide to pop over to Crafty Capers?

After our lovely visit, I had to head home & prepare for my Toastmasters meeting tonight. Our club is still meeting via Zoom, which is nice; it means I don't have to drive in the rain tonight.

I can't even talk about the shooting. It's heartbreaking.

Yes this IS a regular thread, and these ladies have made me feel very welcome. It’s nice to come to a thread where we can talk about scrapbooking AND about all the other stuff. 

And yes I DID visit that LSS and picked up a few things.  Thanks for being such a great scrappy ambassador/enabler. They have a wonderful variety of fun things.  I really wanted that die with the quilt stitching on it, and it really wouldn’t have taken up much room in my suitcase, but I dragged myself out of there without it.  It will probably haunt me now. 

kellyr21 I would be delighted to meet up with you too, but it was my ds and ddil who were in LA this week, not me. I hope you share your art with us. It is always gorgeous. 

Good Morning!

grammadee how awesome that you met cycworker in person! And funny that the girls relaxed once they found out she is a scrapbooker lol. Scrapbookers are NICE Are you scrapping pages about the mountain laundry?

Linda good luck with the appliances, it's always such a pain when they quit and even getting the new one bought and in, ugh. And good luck getting back on track! It's so hard for me once I fall off of establishing healthier habits. But I'm to a point where I have no choice.

nylene funny that Alex was worried about passing, when I asked Rudy if he passed first grade he said "of course. No one flunks first grade" LOL. He's wrong of course, but I'm not sure how often younger kids get held back these days. I'm sorry you are having so much trouble with your silhouette. I didn't realize their customer service is so hard to reach. Sounds like cricut service.

kellyr21   Happy Birthday a little early! I remember when I was 50-54 and everything for senior discounts and such started at 55. Until I was 55 and then suddenly it was 60! Now that I am a senior - that word, sometimes I don't know how to feel about it lol - I forget to ask for those special discounts. I guess because I still don't see myself that way lol. I hope you'll share your art when you are ready. I love seeing it and it's always beautiful.

kitbop I love a newly painted space, but man I don't enjoy the doing of it. I hope you get everything you want done this week.

No Rudy this weekend, the first holiday weekend I can remember that didn't fall on Dad's weekend lol. His last day of school was last week. On field day, one of the contests was to move the most water from one bucket to another. That kids loves math, so figured out if he focused on having the most water in the sponge, instead of trying to be the fastest that would be best. And he won lol.

I'll be going up to mom's today. She's decided she is ready to move to assisted living after landing in the hospital twice in the last 6 weeks. She has diabetes,and has never been good at managing it. She's had several incidents lately of it being too low at night and she literally falls out of bed and can't get herself off the floor. Fortunately the building she lives in has a pull chain for EMT's. She went to short term care yesterday and today I'll go get her rent paid - I just got my name as signer on her accounts a couple months ago, whew!- and pick up some things for her. And then I guess me and my siblings will have the next month to get her things moved out of her apartment. I have no idea where it's all going to end up.
I'm not sure how long before they get her into longer term care. A few weeks I believe.
But watching all of this sure has me thinking about what my own kids could be going through if I don't take better care of myself. So I'll be with you on that bench, or on that walk Linda .

I feel like my scrappy license should be taken away I've done so little this year. I seem to be in more of a season of organizing rather than creating. But I have my first red kit ready to go and I *hope* to scrap along with the live at some point this weekend.

I hope everyone enjoys the weekend!

Thanks grammadee - I'm hoping this is my last appliance also. The washer is pretty new (bought shortly before we moved) but the stove will be $$$ if it needs replacing as we'll need another downdraft stove or we'll need to hire someone to install a vent/hood for a regular one. So fingers crossed on that.

How wonderful you got to meet up with cycworker - and welcome to the thread cycworker !

nylene - I'm sorry about the silhouette issues - that's absolutely awful customer service. No plans for Memorial Day here - just stuff that needs doing around the house. Poor Alex -it's hard when they worry so much. My youngest is similar - she got straight A's this year while being convinced she was on the verge of failing.

kellyr21 - Happy Birthday! Looking forward to seeing you share more art when you're up to.

joyfulnana - ((((Hugs))) Some seasons are more about organsing than scrapping -I think it's all about balance.

kitbop - I don't mind line drying but DH hasn't put up a line here yet so all I have is a small drying rack in my kitchen that doesn't hold a full load...it's been almost a month, I'm ready for my dryer back. And your story of 'floods' is very familiar - I've been buying men's jeans lately and seems to have fixed the issue. Good luck with the painting - edge painting is definitely the hardest part.


DD15 ended up not going camping this weekend - the daughter of the family she was going with was 'coughing up a storm' and it was decided it might be better for DD15 to go another time. DH and the other mum made this call so for once I wasn't the bad guy which was nice. DD is disappointed but agreed it was for the best. I don't know but I suspect the other family isn't vaxxed...

my little kittens are all grown up now - PadBear is a solid, sturdy cat, quite a good-size. Dusty is a bit more delicate boned and lighter but still probably at least 7lbs. We're transitioning them to adult cat food...it's going swell...they've been eating the kitten food out of the mix of the two kibbles. Kitten food bag is almost empty now so they're going to have to adjust soon.

not the best picture but here they are