No. Not really.I ordered a shirt in January with an anticipated delivery sometime in February or March. I wasn't bothered by a delay in receiving the package and noticed yesterday that it had already cleared customs so I was expecting it in a day or two.. This evening we noticed a lump of what looked like garbage in the middle of our lawn. Not garbage. My shirt lying in the mud where it was ..read more

 My sweetie keeps ripping holes in his socks. Not his fault.  The tack strip holding the carpet down on the stairs occasionally pokes through to the surface and grabs his socks. We've hammered the nails down but it just keeps happening, and it's usually the new socks fresh out of the package. Socks that we've had to order online because we can't find dress socks to fit his dainty size 13 feet in ..read more

Decades ago I used to do a lot of petit point, and I acquired hundreds of different colours of floss, which I kept in a 36 drawer storage box and I'm still working through the stash.However, I'm noticing that in spite of having lots of colours most of which have several shades, I still don't seem to have what I want and the thread that used to cost $.30 a skein is now $1.50. That doesn't seem ..read more

We're fortunate to have a number of well maintained trails with beautiful scenery to enjoy close to our home and we've been using them for ages. Over the years I have observed a number of issues that are even more pronounced now that we use the electric scooters more than our bikes. You might even say they're sort of pet peeves.Now I know that pedestrians, roller bladers, bike riders and scooter ..read more

I've been sewing a little bit, but lots of hours work isn't making much of a change. So if you're looking for lots of updates--- they aren't happening.In other news, one of the latest videos we took with the GoPro camera took 14 hours to convert 1 hour of raw footage into something we could post on the web. After several days of leaving the program running overnight, we started looking at ways to ..read more

Lavinia mentioned that the picture of the tree wasn't very clear. I guess that's what happens when you take a hurried picture with the tablet rather than getting out the camera or the scanner. This time I scanned the tree to give you a better idea of the effect of using more than one colour of thread at the same time. The tree trunk looks like tree bark without any extra effort. The single thread ..read more

I've been embroidering since I was a kid and there is only one type of embroidery hoop I know; a round wood one with a screw for tightening it. When I was talking to my sister today she was lamenting not being able to find her favourite hoop. So, I figured I'd just bring up the same round hoop on Amazon and send her one. At one time I had a set of steel hoops with cork inlay for holding the ..read more

We've either had weather too hot to go outside, or too much rain to go outside. Either way we've been mostly stuck in the house instead of out on the scooters. We uploaded some videos that we did with the cheap body cam, but the movements were choppy even after applying stabilization software and we're dying to do them again with the GoPro because it's just so much nicer. We'll just have to wait ..read more

I mentioned that I was planning on more embroidered landscapes and I purchased several adult colouring books of landscapes for this purpose. I wanted pictures that had something to draw you in, like the first one with stepping stones leading up to the gazebo. After perusing the 4 or 5 books I bought, I was thoroughly frustrated. Many of the pictures had faded mountains in the background, which ..read more

As if getting hit by a car wasn't enough, the following Saturday we noticed that although the air conditioning was on, the house was getting hotter and hotter. Then we noticed that the fan in the air conditioner wasn't turning. The unit was only 9 years old with a 10 year warranty. Being under warranty is great, but try getting a technician to come out and look at it on the weekend. It was going ..read more