Pokey Peas Challenge for September 2023

Thanks nylene

Clean up will take a while because we have over an acre and there's a ton of branches and moss and such all over it. DD and I were out there today - it's so hot and humid still we can't work too long at a time either. We've got most of the big branches piled up by the road for when the county comes by with a grapple truck...I'm guessing next week or the week after. I've already filled 2.5 trashcans with smaller branches/moss/leaves and not even made a dent.

Happy September, Pokeys...

nylene, thanks for the new thread. It feels like fall here too this morning. Although summer reared it's head the last couple of days, temps are back toward "normal" for this time of year. We plan to pick the tomatoes this weekend. I hate watching the temps and the forecasts and trying to predict frost to know when to cover them: would rather have them calmly ripening in my basement.

Linda I love those playful kitties on your LO. Are they part of the paper, or are they stickers? Perfect to represent your frisky feline. Glad your own home survived the storm damage, but what a mess to clean up! Do you know if anyone was injured in your area? Must have been a really scary time.

I am having a quiet morning and you would think I would want to scrap, but I am feeling lazy. Dh picked up dgs this morning to take him to a pancake breakfast in the next town, but he will be dropping him off here before going back into town for his dental appointment. Dgs wants to scrap with me when he gets here. He will then hang out with Grampa this afternoon, and will be staying here overnight. His mom will be picking him up early in the morning to take him to the city to do back to school shopping and a Costco run. This will be his first sleepover here for quite awhile, but he has been planning what he will need to bring back and forth, what he can leave here. School starts next week, and the plan is to have him overnight here once per week going forward. That will give his mom some extra time to work on her studies.

Waving hi to justjac, gramma, scrappyrabbit, joyfulnana, kitbop, refugeepea, shinyhappytina, knutschen, MARIBETHR, kellyr21, woodysbetty, all the Pokeys who are, or have been, part of this welcoming community. Hoping that SKETCHtember gets everyone in the mood to create. Have a great month, Pokeys!

Happy September Pokeys!

Linda - wonderful paper cats, love how they give real movement to your page! My oldest wildest kitty just spent 3 days away from home and had us a little scared, only to come wandering in with a casual "'sup?" this morning. My youngest chronically ill kitty is definitely "iller" than usual right now and will need some vet attention this week. Of course he does this on a long weekend...

I'm just trying to take deep breaths.

DD Katie moved home today for the school year (which is reverse of how it should be! oh well!) so if you hear of a sink hole opening up in Ontario it's probably the weight of my poor wee housie falling into the ground! Hopefully my Mom's house sells soon and then we can start househunting for real.

Very much enjoying scrapbooking right now EXCEPT that my chronic neck is in a major flare up and sitting is the worst - so computer and scrapping and reading and TV and stupid phone games. Everything I relax with!

nylene - what a pretty take on the sketch - love the monochromatic layout

((((Hugs))) I hope the finger feels much better again soon.

No plans for today really - just scrapping - hoping to hop on the crop in a bit. I'll do hamburgers tonight with homemade coleslaw from my Granny's recipe and watermelon.

Good Monday evening, Pokeys.

Ouch nylene. That is why they tell us to wear braces, so we can't make those sudden moves that knock healing back. Hope it gets better soon. There is love for your wedding page in the Gallery.

So glad the cat came back, kitbop. When Charley went walkabout in the middle of winter I was sure she was gone forever, but somehow she made it back here. Hope the sicky is feeling better.

I think you will have a blast scrapping those pic's of Rudy with his baby brother, joyfulnana. So cool that he had a sleepover with Nana. Mikey stayed here Friday night. This is his first week of school, so dd is taking him into the school in the morning. He is pretty worried about his new school. Wednesday dd is thinking he will be walking to school on his own. His dayhome provider will be picking him up along with her granddaughter after school. Then Friday I will pick him up after school and he will stay here at the farm overnight again. Since they moved to town he has not slept here til last week. I think Grampa was really missing their early morning breakfasts, cuz he wanted me to stock up on blueberry waffles and honey nut Cheerios.

Linda you had a super scrappy weekend, both in pages created and time with the Peas on line. I was able to join the crop on Saturday for a bit, and have managed a couple of LO's. Loving having different sketches to look at every day. Got to drop in and chat in the crop on Saturday for a bit. It was great to see scrappyrabbit there!

What did you do on the long weekend, kellyr21? Was there any damage in your area from Hillary?

We had a busy weekend harvesting the garden. Cool temps make me nervous that we will get a frost. Yesterday I shredded up a bunch of zucchini that dgs and I picked on Friday. Then dd and dgs came to help pick tomatoes. This time of the year we pick them green and let them ripen in a cool dark room. They hauled them down into the basement. Today I needed to layer them in boxes in the cold room so they are easier to check for ripened and/or rotten ones. And then I picked all the corn that is ready. Tomorrow I need to go to town for 10% Tuesday. And this week I need to bake a couple of zucchini cakes and make a big batch of corn chowder to freeze.

Waving hello to all the Pokeys!

joyfulnana - sounds like lots of memory making this weekend for you - glad you got a little scrappy time as well. How nice to have a sleepover with Rudy - and the pictures from his mum will be fun to scrap

grammadee -I hope Mikey's first day of school goes smoothly...and you had a sleepover also! You've been busy with harvesting and preserving.

I LOVE that newspaper clipping!

Yes - a busy scrappy weekend. We didn't have any family plans so I was able to hop on the online crops for a bit each day! Also enjoying the daily sketches! DD16 went back to school today - first day back in over a week and the first day with the new metal detectors...she wasn't impressed...apparently they searched their bags and didn't put stuff back in the right spots.

Not sure how much scrappy time I'll get this week. I have a long to-do list today...and a headache Tomorrow I have a dr appointment and Thursday is my endoscopy. I'm going to try and at least keep up with sketches.

Thanks kellyr21

headache hung around for two days but is gone thankfully. Today's appt was just a meds check and labwork so easypeasy. Tomorrow is a bit more involved.

No scrapping since the weekend but I did make plum jam and a double batch of banana-nut muffins today.

Happy Thursday, Pokeys!
Glad to hear your mojo is recharging, kellyr21. Hope you can post some takes on the SKETCHtember challenges. Sounds like a lovely weekend. Glad you were not affected by the storm.

joyfulnana, I have a photo somewhere of dd as a teen trying to learn knitting and her big cat (who was also white) with his huge paw reaching out to the yarn. I am envisioning you like that with Abby LOL. It is supposed to be warming up this weekend here, too. Monday night we had FROST, and I have been planning all the fall comfort foods now that I can use the oven again, but maybe not so fast...

Loving seeing your pages popping up, nylene. Hoping your hands continue to heal. I have not been taking on as many of the sketches as I want to since I have not yet printed many photos since the end of July. I have printed a couple at home, but I really prefer to have the professionally printed ones. Might print that newspaper clipping and work on my road trip page today. must check out the single page sketches...

Sending positive vibes to you, Linda, for your appointment today. Did you need to do diet prep for this one? Maybe if you changed your diet that may explain your headache. You have not had a fun week. (((((HUBS)))))

Mikey had a great first day of school. He came home saying he liked the new school and was eager to head back. Had a bit of a dust up in the playground with some older kids (junior high) after school, but dd was able to help him resolve it and he was feeling confident heading back to school the next day. I am enjoying receiving back-to-school pic's. So far I have pic's from three of the four families. Hopefully I will have them all by the time I am in town to print.

It is dark and gloomy today. I need to photograph the LO I put together yesterday for SKETCHtember #5 plus my sample for tomorrow. Hoping the sun comes out SOMETIME...

Thank you - appointment went smoothly and I'll get the biopsy results in October but the main thing they were checking was all good. grammadee - no diet prep this time except fasting from midnight and skipping last night and this morning's pills. I haven't been sleeping well recently and I think the headache is from that.

Abby sounds like a great companion joyfulnana

grammadee - I'm so glad Mikey's school year is off to such a good start! I hope that continues

nylene - such lovely cards - the soda bottles are great and the flower one is just beautiful! How are your hand and back doing?

gramma - good to see you posting again. Moving is so much work but I'm glad you're settling in. I hope the hand heals and you can get back to scrapping more. (((Hugs)))

Linda - you sound productive! I'm off as I work the weekend and have done a load of laundry and some putzing in the garden. Unfortunately, my tomato harvest is largely a bust: I appear to have tomato hornworms this year and any tomato that starts to turn red they chomp into. But I can't harvest them completely green either

DH and I went out to lunch when he got home from work. It's a favourite small local joint and their soup this week is cream of tomato and roasted garlic with lots of fresh mozza on top. It was TDF and now I need to hunt down a recipe.

gramma - I'm sure it's a battle to feel "into" crafting right now, between major life changes and a sore/weak hand! I hope it feels more natural to you over then next few months.

grammadee - where do you get photos printed? I still haven't ventured out there since costco closed but I prefer lab quality to home printed honestly. I may have to resign myself to the price of persnickity prints...wait for a sale... Of course, I still need to get the photos prepared for printing so I can take advantage of a sale!

joyfulnana - "only murders" is my current treadmill show but I'm going thru them way too fast. Love this show! OMG, the "white room" almost made me fall off the treadmill twice because I wasn't prepared for the gut laugh/doubling over when Steve Martin came back from the white room with no pants and the baby dolls... (OK, hopefully you are that far along... no spoilers intended)

kitbop Months?? Yikes!