Trying this again

After a 3 year absence from this blog, I decided to try again. I asked a friend about blogging, she recommended this, and I found out I had already started this in 2008. So now I'm 79, looking forward to 80 next year. My children are Dian, Deborah, Joan, Natalie, CJ, and Tommy.
Dian and CJ live in Spring, TX, Deborah lives in Brenham, TX, Tommy in Houston, and I live with Joan, and Natalie lives across the street here in Austin.

There are a few shawls and lacework done, or OTN, a few UFOs, and I'm trying to finish these, so I can start something else......

Also started were some orchids I bought now and then, and in the spring of 2010, one of the ones in the kitchen window put up 2 flower stems and bloomed, all white. This year, back in April, the same orchid and another one put up one flower stem each. The one that bloomed white last year turned out to be white with purple splotches(the best way to put it), and the new one bloomed white. So what is going on?? Oh well, they are both pretty.

On Mother's day, my daughter Natalie bought me an orchid that had been dyed so the blooms were brilliant blue, really spectacular, even knowing they were dyed. It has finally dropped the blooms, as did the white one, but the white and purple one still is in bloom, no telling how long they will last.

My family has grown a bit, though my oldest daughter Dian lost her husband in June 2009, she has met a nice guy and they live in Spring, TX, just north of Houston. Natalie's son Austin married last October to a great young lady, Kate, and Joan's daughter Lauri had a baby girl in August 2010, my first great-grandchild, her name is Maria Rosalie(my first name). GGrandma knitted a Noah's Ark of toys and blanket for her.

Ancestry.come takes up some of my time when I can't sleep. It's great fun to trace your family back to the stone age....lol.... My maternal grandfather was born in 1861, in Ohio, at the start of the Civil War..... Makes you stop and think. I saw him in 1948, I was 16 and he was 87, and my paternal grandfather, born in 1871, lived to be 97. It gives me some chills to see his parents and grandparents records so long ago.

I will try to keep this going at least once a week, and put up some pics of knitting as I go along.

Trying to blog

First post, new start.... I hope to have a list of all my UFOs, OTNs, soon to be frogged. Plus pictures of things around the house, or in case of my studio, outside the house. Pictures of my stash, knitting, my daughters cat, or whatever shows up.

A week from tomorrow, my second grandson graduates from Texas A&M, at 9:00 am, no less.
I never got to finish college, so this is important to me. My main education came from reading every thing printed after I couldn't go back to school. So I still read, but by now mostly what is enjoyable to me. Science fiction, mysteries, knitting books. Maybe we will read a few books together.