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stitches of violet stitches of violet marguerite s personal blog with posts on life love family weather knitting and whatever let the past sleep but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of christ and let us go on into the invincible future with him oswalt chambers tuesday august 25 2015 end of the blogging season of my life my first blog was called seasons of violet the intent was to write about the different seasons of my life as they happened like an online diary then i discovered knitting blogs and started stitches of violet it was wonderful i met so many like minded friendly people and enjoyed almost a decade of posting about knitting dogs granddaughters and birds now i have moved into a new season there is little time for knitting all my dogs are waiting at the rainbow bridge one granddaughter is now an adult and the birds i enjoyed are left behind for someone else to feed in paw paw almena michigan this is a happy busy season with my new husband we have places to go things to do while we re still able and i have no desire to blog them the blogging season of my life is over blessings to everyone who reads this marguerite hammond posted by marguerite at 8 25 2015 08 18 00 pm 28 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 01 2015 an experiment as the days go by without writing a blog post i find myself writing blog posts in my head i am too busy which then results in being too tired to sit at my laptop and do the writing this is being written on my phone it s an experiment to find out if i can write blog thoughts on my phone and edit them later and add pictures before publishing what kind of picture goes in a post about writing a post how about a picture of jay my husband because sometimes i act like a teenager in love the above picture was loaded in from my phone even thought it s a small picture blogger has it looking huge i am not sure how to deal with this now i m on my laptop finishing up this experiment and will add another picture just to make sure it can be done that worked much better nest step google ways to add pictures with my phone after looking to see if the picture of jay s head looks better after i publish i have no reason to think it will even though he s not at fault posted by marguerite at 8 01 2015 08 55 00 pm 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 12 2015 empty boxes this past week we worked in the basement jay did even more than i did i don t know how he s still standing because i have crashed and burned but how many people can say they have put away everything in their basement i know that i have never been able to say that before the picture below is the lineup of empty boxes and containers that we decided to keep these are the boxes that are going to get cut up and recycled posted by marguerite at 7 12 2015 06 48 00 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 05 2015 we ve been living together 8 months last tuesday we put together an assemble it yourself tv table for our cacti we put it together backward inside out and with great patience and determination as it flopped all over and pieces didn t fit right i admit by mid afternoon i would have happily carried it out to the trash but jay insisted he was having fun so we kept dissembling and reassembling until it was functional we did eventually throw out three major pieces that we re never going to miss the cacti are happy jay s happy and i m happy that tuesday is over while we were making a mess of the cacti table the ups man brought the next day s project a tall cabinet for the deck this had way better instructions and went together much quicker we got the entire project done right the first time the sorting and organizing continues jay is working on tools now it appears we have a few this picture only includes tools from the main level there s a workroom in the basement that also has a few tools to be sorted i didn t bother moving any of my tools from my previous house that means we can leave out all the discussions about whose to keep and whose to give away for the record this table of tool stuff was empty in half a day we re getting very good at sorting and culling last winter during the months i wasn t blogging we got shades for our condo after several false starts with businesses that didn t respond we went through costco what kind of business that sells window coverings wouldn t be happy to outfit a new condo for non cranky customers costco sent us to a large showroom that has been in business thirty five years had an excellent selection and was a pleasure to do business with they educated us answered all our questions helped us select the right thing came to the condo and measured and installed the entire condo in two hours plus we got a great costco discount last week we got notified that the furniture we bought in arcola illinois from countryside amish furniture has been built and only needs 7 to 21 days for the finish to cure and the odor to dissipate before delivering this is very exciting and delivery will be a huge step in making our condo into our home the picture below is my current dresser it ranks a d better than nothing posted by marguerite at 7 05 2015 07 29 00 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 30 2015 test picture post my previous program for reducing the size of pictures to make them blog worthy does not work on windows 8 1 fortunately the updated canon software i use to edit my photos will reduce their size just needed time to play around with it a while and this post is hopefully the proof that i finally got it right as always readers can double click on blog photos to see more detail windows 8 1 and i are slowly becoming friends it s different for sure the learning curve has been a time suck and so have many other things i m we re working on getting done my new laptop is much faster and the display screen much sharper so i can make and correct mistakes quicker that s nice the new laptop and i are friends and almost in love posted by marguerite at 6 30 2015 12 29 00 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 23 2015 new laptop learning curve a little over a week ago my step son jeff arrived with a new laptop for me it was not a surprise it was purchased with my approval and my money i so appreciate that he went shopping for me because he knows what he s doing in a computer store and i don t he helped me with the initial set up did all the file transfers and installed some of the software that i use i probably could have done this but he did it much faster and with 100 less muttering and groaning thank you jeff i now have a touchscreen windows 8 1 and a new version of photo managing software they are all requiring a learning curve when i m not distracted by personalizing the laptop so i am functional and happy it s like getting a new puppy one forgets how much time this takes also i need to mention that i have a new car a new house and a new marriage which all require a learning curve it s all good especially the new marriage i wouldn t give any of it back i am so glad to be retired so i have time for all this learning why am i writing this a diary for me of this time period an excuse for not blogging a declaration that i will be blogging again when i get done figuring out how to do it windows 8 1 style p s i just spent over an hour trying to add a picture to this blog post there will be no picture today posted by marguerite at 6 23 2015 04 37 00 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday may 30 2015 snapshot of my life on may 30 2015 weather in sw michigan it s a nice rainy late spring day temperature in the low seventies tuesday we bought our contribution to the exterior of the condo two hanging baskets the rest is and will be maintained by landscapers i m still getting used to that but my body appreciates it really today i got a text message from son john asking if i d like to come to idaho the week before labor day to babysit granddaughter sydney haven t bought the plane tickets yet but i m pretty sure the answer is yes what we ve been doing we ve been working on merging household stuff arranging and organizing the condo buying things we need and getting rid of things that we don t need and can bear to give up does that sound like the same thing we were doing six months ago it is and it s likely we will be doing it six months in the future getting married when you re seventy plus is not like getting married when you re young the encouraging news is that we are happy with what we ve done and we work well together new at our house we finally hung this beautiful needlepoint stitched by new daughter jay s daughter joni her work is meticulous tiny perfect stitches i can feel the love crafted into it her love for her heavenly father and her love for her earthly father it s hanging in the heart of the house the front hallway is to the right and the great room is to the left and to the front i am procrastinating buying a new laptop the one i have is wimpy which was ok when i bought it and lived in the country with whimy wi fi now it s frustratingly slow and i ve been ready to replace it for six months what i haven t been ready to do is to take the time to set up a new laptop jay s answer to almost all my problems is a trip usually to cincinnati the middle of june we re going to cincinnati because they have a microsoft store there we will be returning with something new and different a fast laptop with windows 8 touchscreen seen anything good on facebook lately granddaughter sydney s new braces giving thanks for having a laundry room near the bedroom and master closet i have always had laundry in the basement now there is hardly a load of wash that happens when i don t mentally appreciate the luxury of same floor laundry a few plans for the next few days sister doris and her husband john from virginia will be here monday for brunch in kalamazoo and dinner at schuler s in marshall mid week i pick up a new pair of glasses after that i will no longer be able to pass off pictures of a younger me because the glasses will be out of date and the new condo they re finishing across the circle from us is going to be in the parade of homes starting june 12 it will be interesting to see how much traffic that brings to our quiet court posted by marguerite at 5 30 2015 04 06 00 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to comments atom about me marguerite kalamazoo michigan united states newly married senior lady crazy in love with her new husband want all the young people to know that old people love is the best yet view my complete profile 100 things about me updated july 2015 free knitting patterns e mail me blog 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