Although living alone and not dating much has its downside, I have noticed one benefit: I'm getting a lot more XS done than I did when I was married! (Even though I've worked a lot of overtime this month.) Without the snoring to keep me awake half the night, I'm waking up long before the alarm and getting in an hour or so of stitching before I have to go to work. Evenings and weekends, I'm not wasting time cleaning up after someone else, which gives me more time to stitch (I clean as I go all week, so I don't have to spend an hour wandering around the house finding dishes and putting them in the dishwasher, etc.) I spent much of this afternoon enjoying our beautiful weather (around 80 degrees!), so have almost finished my three mice Mother's Day piece, and have already selected the next project from my UFO basket: "God Blesses This House, But He Doesn't Clean It". (Dirran has already asked me to send her the chart when I'm done with it, so I'm going to try to work it up quickly so I can get that in the mail.) Since my resident slob doesn't live here any more, I probably don't need that sign any more, and am considering giving it to Kat for Christmas ... her cats have a mortal fear of the vacuum cleaner, so she only runs it once every 6 months out of consideration for them (that's her story and she's sticking to it!) :) As of 4:30 today, the entire left side of the mice-in-crocuses picture is complete, including the backstitch (YAY!!!!!); on the right side, the mice and flowers are done (and backstitched!), and I've begun the grass, leaves and stems, which probably will be done by tomorrow afternoon. I want to do one more happy dance before this list goes away! If I finish the mice before I need to come back indoors tomorrow, I am going to work on two UFOs which are complete except for the beads. The cats like to help me too much to put the beads on when they are around, but I can do that outside without their assistance. The wind is less likely to spill hundreds of beads on the floor than the cats are! So I may get three happy dances in one day. (Is that a record?) Mary, please do send me, privately, the necessary e-mail addresses and information on how we can keep this list going so I can make the arrangements with the same company you're using. For professional reasons, I can't always make an hour every day to handle the administrative stuff, but there are enough of us who want to keep it going that I think I can get a group of volunteers to rotate the chores. (Ladies, e-mail me privately if you want to take a turn!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karen _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by Beakers Graphic Designs http://www.probe.net/~beakers/ecsp.htm The Xstitch Home page at http://www.probe.net/~beakers/xshome.htm Mary Joseph - XStitch List Moderator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monica Sudds - XStitch List Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================================== To unsubscribe TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: unsubscribe XStitch
