Updated work picture

We took a new picture for our office to update the picture we had here since a few people are no longer here -Cheryl :( being one of them, but she did come visit us yesterday, that was fun! thanks for coming in to see us

I'm Baaack

Ok I paid the $5 bucks and I can upload pictures again.  apparently, it takes longer than 30 seconds because I can't upload a picture yet.  I'll try later.  I did update the other Hartland Blog too

I made a new blog

http://kris-hartlandhappenings.blogspot.com/

Here it is.  What I originally wanted to put on my old blog this morning that got me all fired up. 

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I was adding pictures this morning, and I had about 8 done, was moving on to the last one and I get this message.  Sorry but I am not purchasing more space on my FREE blog!

Ok I'm crazy

I haven't even finished the other rug hook I started and I bought another kit, this one is a little smaller but I just couldn't help to start it because I also got a new hook and it's so much easier to use and does not hurt my hand like my other one does.

Various bird visitors today

Woodpecker

Nuthatch

Starling or is this a grackle?

Tufted Titmouse

Goldfinch

Woodpecker

What?

This poor Cardinal lost his tail feathers.  Not sure what happened to him but he spends a lot of time at my feeders.

Punch Rug vs. Rug Hook

 The left side is a punch rug and the right is a rug hook.  This is the finished side, so for rug hook, you are working on this side, pulling the wool from the back with a hook

When rug punching, you work on this side, punching the yarn through to the other side with a giant needle type tool, so when you are done, you flip over to see your work.  I should have taken a picture of the tools but I forgot.... next time

Rug hooking and sleeping beauties

What a life!

More of rug hooking

 I got a few more squares done last night and the night before. 

 Harley likes my new chair and likes to sit on all my stuff that I am working on or sit on me but he gets in my way and I have to push him off.  So he spent the night outside last night and came in to snuggie up in my wool

 Leave me alone already!

 

Rug Hooking

I have been making punch rugs and punch needle but I was never really interested or good at rug hooking.  I even took a class before, I was pretty bad at it too.  Embarrassing to me bad!  My project in the class looked like a 4 year old did it.  So I put my stuff away and just dreamed some day I could take this hobby up again and make something nicer. 

I found a nice lady on Ebay that sells rug hooking kits, all the wool, cut, the pattern on the burlap and a full page color picture as a guide

 
This is how far I got last night.  It seems this may take me a long time to finish this, I bought a pretty big rug
 
This is the back side.  Rug hooking is opposite of rug punch, you work on the right side in hooking and you work on the wrong side on punch needle
 
Looks like a pile of colorful spaghetti!  This is the wool all cut and read to be hooked into the rug

Beautiful day in West Hartland

Vines growing out in the middle of the woods

Brett our tour guide of the doomed town of Hartland Hollow

Whats left of an old Silo

Caroline!  For being with a bunch of adults all day, she was such a trooper!

Two bus loads were taken on the tour, this was our group

The road leading into the Hollow

Perfect timing for a fall ride in the country

Dave and Cheryl  went along too, I had a great time! 

New Deck, Updated again

I have been sick since I got home from Chicago. I must have picked up something on the airplane, although no one else that I went with got sick, just me.  Any how, I am still sick and it the anti-biotics are not completely curing me but I am a lot better than I was.  I just wish it would go away already. I have a scratchy throat and a little coughing left and my voice just does not sound like me. 

Charlie our friend and handy dude built us a new deck, it's the same size except he made it nicer than our old deck and made a little spot out for the grill so it does not take up deck space.  I crawled up on the roof to try and get a better view of the deck

Chicago Weekend

 This is the sky deck on the former Sears tower now called the Willis tower

 View from the 103rd floor was amazing

 More views from the Tower.  It took us about 2 hours to go up and come down, there was a line going both ways.

 Navy Pier view.  This was early in the morning Saturday before it got windy and the lake turned into waves like the ocean

 Navy pier has a stain glass museum inside, there were a lot from old churches

 One of the many ways you can take a tour around the lake, we didn't go on this one, we took the slow moving booze cruise

 The water tower

Old men looked pretty tired.  I always feel bad for these horses