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 Good Morning!

Summer has been blooming in my scrapatch.

I have been having some ups and downs, 

but life is good.

I have been doing a lot of sitting and crocheting.

I have been carrying my yarn bag and hooks wherever life takes me.

 because it had suffered a lot of winter kill last year. 

It is growing back green and beautiful. 

Life can be like that. 

Sometimes you need to regroup and carry on ...

... and bloom.

 The wall of rhododendrons in our driveway have also bloomed.

My kitties ...

This is the progress on the new floor that my hubby and two sons

 were able to make over the weekend.

It is encouraging.

The new maple laminate flooring is reaching into the middle of the dining room.

Cassian is on the rug in the living room,

appreciating that he has run of this part of the house this morning

as the kitties are closed into the back of the house when work is happening.

The real work week has started for my guys

 and the furniture will probably be in these patterns 

until the weekend.

That is a photo ...

This is my end of summer

"highway guided by the way the world is tilted"

... quote from this poem

We road tripped from Massachusetts to Indiana and back to visit with our daughter, son-in-law and grand-darling before they sell their house and move another 1000 miles away west.  Those of you who have been following my blog a long time may remember that my son-in-law is career military. Now he is transferred to the US Space Force.

The first two days of the journey were in total rain and there are no photos.

The skies cleared in the evening in ...

It rained today! 

I  opened the windows and the back door 

and even went out to stand in the nice cool rain. 

I has been in the triple digits with the heat factor for so many days

that the house has been closed up and the air conditioners running night and day.

It has not even cooled off at night. 

A steady healing is now a cause for celebration.

In truth, I have always loved summer rains and in my younger days would take a walk in the rain.

Today I just opened my door and enjoyed. 

Hope the rains ...

Happy August! 

Mr. Scrapatch has been working all week and catching up on all the projects that need doing around the Scrapatch on the weekends. Here he is yesterday using his portable electric cement mixer to replace cement landing for the back steps.  

The steps and stringers also need replacing,

 so there is a gaping hole off the back porch ...

I voted.

It is a cold day here with the temperature at freezing, 

mostly bright sun and clouds.

When we stepped out of the polls,

we stepped into the biting, blinding, blowing whiteout

of a driving snow squall.

I have looked at clouds from

Both Sides Now

"Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day."

~

May your day be filled with good health, good people, good times,

thankfulness,

peace,

and

wonder.

Winter has come early to my quilty corner.

This is what greeted me when I opened my back door this morning. 

It is still snowing.

Mr Scrapatch ventured out to put seed in the feeders before he left for work

and this was the snowy path that greeted him.

This is a photo he took of his Saint Francis statute on the way to the shed for the birdseed.

The leaves are still on the oak trees, just starting to change and drop.

I took this one of the snow on the last of my coral rose buds 

that were ...

This is my prototype for a Mask with a Wired Nose Guard.

I designed this as I sewed and made adjustments along the way.