Happy 2024

 Happy New Year! Since I missed so much of 2023, I decided to start fresh. I hope this finds you on this  first day in January in a wonderful place.

I have sat down to write posts. Lots of posts. Which I then delete. Sometimes they sound to snarky, or to whiny. Today, I will just write. Because I do miss blogging. 

What is my takeaway from 2023? Was it a crazier year that the three years that preceded it? No, I don't think so I think anymore life is just full of surprises at every turn. 

I was thinking what were my favorite things of 2023? Getting a travel trailer was a favorite and using it and staying at our out of town kids houses. Getting to visit with our grand children for longer periods of time. One of my other favorite things was going to Arkansas and staying at the Ron Coleman mine and digging for quartz. Even though, I got dirtier than I have ever been in my life, it was fun and I look forward to doing it again. 

Life threw some curve balls. Lots of curve balls. Things I didn't even begin to understand. But as John Bunyan said, from Pilgrims Progress, " I am on the bottom, and the ground is still firm. 

Today I was looking at my Kindle and I found that in 2023 on the Kindle I had read 131 books. That doesn't count the other stacks of books I read that were real books. I am pretty proud of that. I listened to 20 C.J. Box books. My favorite book character  right now is Joe Pickett. I call them Men romance novels. Big guns, hunting, fishing and lots of action. I wish it didn't have so many curse words in it, but being a girl and all. One of my favorite pictures was this one.

 

So when this showed up on my Facebook. I just had to snap it. Nate in the book has a 454 Casul. So when C.J. Box got one from Freedom Arms, I was so excited to finally see one. Tell me, isn't that an awesome handgun? It even has his name on it. I sew or hook listening to these books. Go figure. I don't fly fish, I don't hunt, and I don't live in Wyoming. I never even killed a chicken to eat. The last time I fished, I was cleaning the fish and she was full of eggs, and it made me so sick, I never fished again. So no clue why I am such a big fan. Speaking of hooking.

My two latest projects. The winter house is called Christmas Cabin by Therese Shick. Wool'n Gardener.

The one above it is called, Friends, by Crow Creek Farms. I bought both off of Etsy. 

Today, on Lauren's post, she said, a hookers resolution is not to buy wool. I had to laugh because last year, I bought patterns. Lots of patterns. I suppose so I could listen to Joe Pickett. So no new patterns until February.  Speaking of Lauren. She sent me the most wonderful bag. Every time I get my hook out of it I think of her. She sent it about the time I got sick. So I never said, to her Thank you so much for it.

Lauren is so faithful and she continues to always bless my life. Her wonderful blog is, Rugs and Pugs.

Yeah, so I won't go into being sick but I got sick on October 6th and didn't get well until Thanksgiving. So I lost a few months in there. I think now, our entire family was sick from August, until December. 

Well, just a bit of things. I will have further updates hopefully not months apart. Ron is going to school right now. So it feels like we are always doing something now. 

I wish you all a wonderful New Year, 2024. Who knows what the future holds. 

~Kim~

" Lord, give toe me a quiet heart

That does not ask to understand,

But confident steps forward in

The darkness guided by Thy hand."

---Elisabeth Elliot---Keep a Quiet Heart.

" Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

Proverbs 3:5-6