Being thankful

Hook news:
Mary Maxim Contest
I'm now in the waiting stage. The afghan is complete and and on it's way. I'm thankful the project is completed.

New design
I cannot believe I've been working on this design for over a year—but I have. I took time off to make a baby ghan, then time off to do the Mary Maxim stuff. Then there were the holidays, and life in general. Well, now I'm back to it. All that needs to be done is finish typing up the directions, and give it a name. I'm thankful to be almost done with this project.

Wonder what my next project will be?

Crook news:
An update on my garden.
The sweet peas seeds that survived the winter rain, and brought forth 3 plants and 2 small blooms became the victims of an early heat spell and are no more. :( Perhaps next year.

I have 3 geranium plants now and they are doing super. The carnations didn't like the heat either and are gone. *sigh*

I trimmed “Joyce” and she's doing well; however “Ethel” does not like the a/c blowing on her and is suffering. Some surgery is in order.

I'm thankful that I haven't managed to kill all of my plants. ;-)

Book news:
My current read:
I'm presently reading an older James Rollins, Excavation. It's very fast paced and has creepy creatures, Inca tribes, buried treasure and evil and nefarious characters as well. I don't read it just before bedtime.

Tom Clancy and "Jack Ryan":
We recently rented The Hunt for Red October from Netflix (I needed to drool over Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery - hehehe). I was curious as to why Baldwin played Ryan only once, so I did some digging. That took me a web site that listed all the "Jack Ryan" books, and there was a listing of the books in published order and chronological character order.

Now I love reading books in chronological character order, so I made notes and scampered over to my favorite used book store, where I managed to garner the first 3 in the chronological list. My summer pleasure will be to find and read them all—in chronological order.

If you are interested, here is the chronological listing I found (which may or may not be accurate):

• Without Remorse
• Patriot Games
• The Red Rabbit
  
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin
• Clear and Present Danger
• The Sum of All Fears
• Debt of Honor
• Executive Orders
• Rainbow Six
• The Bear and the Dragon
• The Teeth of the Tiger

Whew. I'm thankful I'm done typing chronologically. hehehe

Map of Bones:
I’m still sitting at #9 and holding for this book. How can a county this size have only one copy of this best seller? I guess I'm thankful we have a local library. ;-)

Personal news:
How patient are you?
My patience is no better than it was a few weeks ago. I noticed today that I have bit the nails on 3 of my fingers. Yes, just 3 nails—the 3 middle fingers on my left hand. I wasn't even aware I was biting them.

Moving and being thankful
The other day we signed papers and sold what was to have been our retirement property. When we bought it there were 3 other homes in the area, and loads of trees. Now there is a subdivision behind the property, several other homes on the street itself, a large church kiddy-corner to the property, and rules and regs that would curl your hair. Oh—and no trees.

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. – Psalms 150:6

We are very thankful as God blessed our investment and we received good money for the property. We'll invest this money in our new home. Hopefully that will be in a small town where there are trees, not a lot of growth, and a nice, small, warm comfy church where we can worship the One who gave His life for us.