Chaos of Life

OK! Here I am! I AM BACK!

I haven't been sick or injured and no one else in the family has been that I know of either, (Thank heavens) My VERY independent life of being retired has just been in total chaos.

The last 2 months have been spent constantly running back and forth to my hometown and helping get my dads house ready for a RE-sell after the person who had originally bought it defaulted on the contract for deed and I and mt siblings got it back in September...NOT GOOD!

So we have been doing a TON of work on fixing it up, [painting, remodeling, and cleaning) GRRRRR! It was left in a HUGE amount of needed repair and cleaning. I don't know HOW people can live like some do wallowing in dirt, filth, and damage...imagine your WORST cleaning day and add to it 10x's and you'll maybe come close to what we have endured these last weeks.
Oh I didn't mention...the house is 4 bedrooms,3 full bathrooms,2 living room areas and a nice sized kitchen plus a family room in the basement. The house is over 100 years old and is one of the first built in my hometown and has lots of the original oak woodwork etc. well worth doing some fixing on I suppose.I just have a huge problem cleaning up after somebody Else's carelessness.
Myself, my husband, one of my sisters and her husband and one brother have done all this work and finally are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Painting, needed sheet rocking, cleaning and totally remodeling one bathroom have taken place and all I can say is that it BETTER be worth it and that house BETTER SELL! Yeah in THIS economy???

We also fall cleaned our fifth wheel camper the last time we were down there too and got that winterized and brought it home this last trip too to store for the winter. Summer is gone! Fall was here (I think) but I spent most of it working on that house! Didn't get a chance at all to enjoy one of my favorite times of the year..FALL.
Yep! You could say I am slightly disgruntled YET!

My sewing and stitching have suffered immensely through all of this chaos of the last 2-3 months. This is something I really enjoy doing but haven't felt up to not had any time so just didn't. I have managed to get my obligations done for the exchanges I have signed up to be part of and am actually getting ahead of the game this past week too!
All commitments were sent out and everyone who was a recipient should have received or will shortly. IF I have missed anyone it surely wasn't intentional and I would think I would have heard by now? I am currently working on a needlebook for a current exchange plus I have a exchange of 20..yes I said 20...ornaments for a send 20 get 20 back exchange in a group I belong to as well. Gonna be power sewing those tonite and tomorrow as they really are sewn not cross stitched. Not worried at all about getting them done as I do better at that sort of thing too! Ha!
Oh and I have a birthday ATC for November in another group too! (I haven't forgotten)


On top of all this commotion my desktop computer decided in the last three weeks to die on us! I shut it completely down when we left to go back down to work on that house and when we came back it just wasn't a happy thing and refused to turn on and run. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! After having a tech look at it I found I have lost all files of needleworking designs I have collected off the web (BOO HOO) plus many quilting patterns etc. Not a major issue as I can sit here for HOURS and HOURS looking around and finding more..LOL
(One more reason for my husband to roll his eyes at me! HA!)
Well luckily for me I had JUST in early Sept. backed up most of the photos and other things that I felt were REALLY important and had them on jump drives! ONE positive anyways!
Anyways..I have one brand new computer...so life is good once more! Ha!

Things are looking up again even tho winter IS coming and so are Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas! Time for me to get back at those projects again.LOL!!!
I Do have 3 PIF's to get out too. LOL They are here somewhere nearly finished too! Don't give up on me yet! I remembered those as well!

One more thing is that I had promised a drawing for a 1st anniversary of my blogging. I haven't forgotten that but as I said life has gotten in the way. Just getting that all pulled together so I have photos etc. Look for more info this coming week and be sure to sign up for that little ditty too.

I have several pictures to post and hope to get at that this week too from exchanges I mailed off or received, and drawings that I was lucky enough to win, etc. Now where is that darned camera??? Ha!



PS.
We did have a good weekend a couple of weekends ago having my sister in law, nephew and his wife visit us. We took a day trip down to Jay Cooke State Park and to Hawk Ridge in Duluth. Fall colors were still pre prime and the weather was VERY cold and windy (snowed the day before) but we had a nice time viewing the fall color that there was.
Jay Cooke State Park is a beautiful park with very rugged scenery of the St. Louis River flowage just south of Duluth near Carlton. Hawk Ridge is on the northeast edge of Duluth along Skyline Drive with a great view of Lake Superior and the city of Duluth.


ANYWAYS...As I said...I am back!
Have a great weekend and YOU all keep a smile!
I'm trying to too!

Lynn