Now and then....

 My heart just melted when I got this the other day....Two of my beautiful girls.  It seems like only yesterday that Lorelei was that young.  She is still a loving girl...you can tell she loves her mom.  And she loves her dad, too, and used to always miss him so much when he was working so much she hardly saw him.

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I don't know what the actual temperature has been...in the 70's, but with the breeze that is blowing was too cool to sit outside and enjoy reading.  I would have had to have a blanket.  LOL

An full view...

 I think I counted 14 blooms today...I wish I knew how this looked on other computers...it looks drab on here.   But they are glorious.

Even what remains after the bloom drops off is gorgeous in its own right.

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I still have not made it upstairs to have a try at going through stuff,  but I have went up and sewed a little each day.  I just need a good chunk of time and that is hard to come by most days.

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Karen...I still use some of my clothespins, too....they are great to keep bags of chips closed!  But I do wish I had the chance to use them as real clothespins.  That was always a favorite job of mine.

From today...

 I just cannot resist posting this plus another over on my other blog if I don't get sidetracked.  The hibiscus  had 13 blossom day before yesterday I think it was...I thought that was a lot!  Today it  had 18 blooms!  I could hardly believe it.  They are just gorgeous in real life.

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I have did laundry most of the day.  Or felt like it was most of the day.  With each load taking an hour and 11 minutes it just drags out.  But I don't dare not use the extra rinse with how little water it uses.  I get so frustrated any time I  wash quilts or sheets.  The washer has a glass lid and can stand and watch.  There will be part of the quilt that bubbles up out of the water,and it will just stay there till I pause the wash, open the lid and rearrange the quilt.  The only good thing about this washer is it really spins the water out.

I need to run to Walmart either tomorrow or Wed...supposed to be raining tomorrow so I may wait.  Other than that, I would like to work upstairs in all my sewing stuff and rearrange it.  But I have thought that before and have yet to do it. So wish me luck.