A Good Day

 My day started at 3:30 a.m. when Oscar woke up and decided there had to be something very scary outside. I don't think there was but I had to be up at 5 so by the time I got him calmed down, I figured - why bother with trying to go back to sleep?

This morning I had a colonoscopy. Yes, even that was good . . compared to what I went through yesterday with the preps. Before the procedure started, I asked the doctor . . If I have no polyps, can I go back to having a colonoscopy every 5 years instead of every 3 years? I'm thinking . . if it's every 5 years, I'll be old enough that I won't need another one. He said "Let's see what I find and we'll talk about that."

Turns out there were three polyps and he said "Once I get the lab report back, we'll see if you need a colonoscopy every ONE year or every three years." I suppose that's where "be careful what you ask for" comes into play!

But . . it was a good day. When we left the hospital, we stopped at Cracker Barrel and had breakfast. We used to love Cracker Barrel but after three not so great experiences there, we hadn't been back in probably two or more years. Today the food was excellent, our server was friendly and happy and checked on us several times and even got our order correct! 

In the picture of my plate (right to left): hash brown casserole (and it was as good as I remember it being), THREE scrambled eggs with fresh spinach tomatoes, mushrooms and green onions on top with a Hollandaise type sauce, bacon and apples. There were also two biscuits and real butter. I believe it was $11.99, which isn't bad these days. I ended up giving Vince some of my eggs. I had not eating since lunch on Monday (and today is Wednesday) and I barely ate it all - except those eggs I gave Vince and I could only eat one biscuit so he ate the other one.

The we stopped by Sam's because we wanted to get more dog food, salt for the water softener and something else that was heavy but I can't think of it now . . oh . . flour. I buy 25 pound bags of bread flour there. I use it when rolling out dough (dusting the countertop) and if I'm making bread or treats for people who may not love whole wheat bread, I use storebought white flour. 

The best news . . 

I can't remember if I mentioned it here but I've had this piece on a scroll frame for several years. I was 100% certain this was a Hands Across the Sea project (it wasn't) and I kept thinking I'd come across the chart. While I haven't been actively searching for the chart for months and months, for that long, it was in the back of my mind that I needed to find it. Last week, while organizing charts and formalizing my new stitching plan, I said to myself . . you HAVE to find the chart that goes with this piece. Nope, couldn't find it. I spent hours and days going through bins of charts.

Finally, out of desperation, I posted in one of the stitching Facebook groups . . does anyone know what chart this is? Everyone was nice and some really put some time into trying find it. After a few days, the comments became fewer and fewer and I figured no one would find it. I thought it was weird that I couldn't find it on Instagram or Facebook or anywhere. Did I buy the only chart that was out there? Did others buy it and lose it and therefore, don't recognize it?

On our way home from doing all the things this morning, I looked at Facebook on my phone and found a response from a lady with a picture of the chart and the name - In HIS Image by Teresa Kogut.

In a million years, I would never have guessed that was a Teresa Kogut border. YES! That was it. I looked on my X-Stitch app and I didn't have that chart listed. I looked on my spreadsheet - nope, not listed there either. What the heck??

I started searching all over again because MAYBE I had a project bag that had several of Teresa Kogut's charts in the same bag (Why do I do that?) and I had glanced at the chart in front but hadn't realized there were others in there. Nope - I wanted so badly to take a nap but I couldn't stop looking for that chart. 

I googled it and saw that it was an exclusive for Craft Gallery in Findlay, OH in early 2022. Then I remembered I had two bins of older charts that I haven't looked at in a couple of years. You know how you (maybe not YOU but me!) will buy so much when you first start something new and then find your niche and have charts you may or may not use?) I had taken those and put them in separate bins and apparently accidentally got In HIS Image in that bin. I need to go through all of those and see if there are other charts in there that shouldn't be. So I went to that bin and there it was . . chart, working copy of the chart AND the floss. I was a bit concerned about the floss because back in 2022, I didn't really worry about keeping the floss with the project but was so happy to see it there.

This afternoon I made the PDF and got it loaded into Markup XP, added labels to both the frame and the floss ring.

To further complicate this project, I made notes on my working copy and I don't have a clue what they say/mean. NOTE TO SELF: Write so you can read your own writing and make sure it makes sense!

I'm assuming when I get to that area (door is already stitched), I'll be able to figure it out.

I will add In His Image to my cross stitching plan and that will give me 17 projects. I definitely need to stitch faster, don't I?

OK . . it's been a full day. I'm going to try to get a few stitches done before I crash.