25 in 2025

Here are things I'd like to accomplish in 2025:

1. Knit a sweater.

2. Create a new knitwear design. 

3. Walk more. 

4. Reorganize the yarn in my craft room.

5. Get rid of 25 things I don’t need. 

6. Exercise regularly. 

7. Join the Photo a Day challenge. 

8. Do something useful every day. 

9. Study Spanish on Duolingo regularly.

10. Teach classes at the university level. 

11. Read more. 

12. Drink more water. 

13. Relearn to play the guitar. 

14. Practice my watercolor painting. 

15. Create at least 1 new sketch in my sketchbook. 

16. Log my food in the food diary on My Fitness Pal. 

17. Reconnect with friends. 

18. Read my bible. 

19. Practice meditation. 

20. Do more gardening. 

21. Learn something new. 

22. Try a new recipe. 

23. Write a letter. 

24. Try yoga. 

25. Practice Tai Chi. 

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Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

2024 in Numbers

• Wonderful days spent with my husband - 366
• Hurricanes that did damage to my house - 1
• Days without a kitchen - 290
• Cruises taken - 2
• Road trips taken - 2
• Books read - 50
• Pages read - 18,860
• Projects knitted or crocheted - 44
• Yarn used - 14,686 yards
• New patterns published - 1
• Blog posts written - 58
• Miles walked - 1381 miles
• Number of cruising days - 20

Photo by Eyestetix Studio on Unsplash

Time to Repot Snake Plants

This morning we went to Home Depot to buy some potting soil. While we were there, we picked up some sweet mint and some spearmint. Then we went to Dollar Tree to buy some flower pots. There were only 8 of them so we bought them all. We have a lot of snake plants in flower pots that have become root-bound. Don helped me re-pot them. We had a lot of extra plants and I contacted my neighbor to see if she wanted them. They were $15 each at Home Depot!

After lunch, I knit on my sweater and watched SWAT episodes. It was a beautiful day outside.

We watched the Sugar Bowl at 4 p.m. and the Gator Bowl at 8 p.m.

It was a very nice day!

Original photos by Pat Hensley

Word of the Year

This year my word of the year is going to be BALANCE. 

I have the bad habit of jumping in with both feet and that means if I have a new project, other things fall by the wayside. I need to be better about finding balance in the things I do.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

A Happy Day in the New Year

I had a fabulous New Year’s Day.

The weather was perfect, and I was able to sit out on the front porch in the morning light. I did some knitting until my niece called me from NY, and we had a wonderful chat.

After that call, I started cooking our traditional meal of collard greens and black-eyed peas. I cooked the collards for about 2 hours. The black-eyed peas only took 8 minutes in my instant pot. We had lunch at noon and hubby said it was the best collards that I had ever made. I’m not sure if he was just hungry or that it had been a year since the last time I made them. It didn’t matter, because we enjoyed the meal. Leftovers were saved for dinner.

 In the afternoon, we watched Bowl games. It was sad that the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans had to be postponed due to the terrorist attack on New Year’s Eve. I will never understand the meanness in people.

I took a little nap since the score of the Texas vs. Arizona St. game was one-sided. When I woke up from my nap, it was the third quarter and things began to get interesting. The game actually went into 2 overtimes. Texas eventually won.

In the evening, I was able to get on Zoom with my Zombie Network knitting friends. That was a perfect way to spend the evening.