RIP Debbie

Still missed.....

For the WIPocalypse this month I don't have a single finish! I was ready to say, with complete sincerity, that I've only been stitching on Happy Easter all month, and then my camera roll showed up......

"Happy Easter" by CuteFoxyShop has most of the leaves and flowers and all the lettering done; it's mostly the background yellow left:

"Baking Hello Kitty" from Vervaco has more cupcakes and background pink:

"Reversed Sampler" from the Stitcherhood has a picture so I must have done something but I don't know what:

"Bam! It's Christmas!" by Emma Congdon has more red:

and "Grave Fellows" from Lindy Stitches has the big bird and headstone finished, two small birds and headstones to go:

 I must be cross-stitching while I sleepwalk or something because I had no memory at all about stitching on three of these until I saw the pictures!  Maybe I have an excuse I can use when I get more stash, haha.

The WIPocalypse question for the month is about Zoom meetings and have we been to them.  The answer is yes and they're a nightmare for me because I can't stay awake; I've fallen asleep during zoom church, zoom webinars, and zoom meetings for a volunteer group I'm with.  I keep my camera off for this exact reason.  I'm not even tired, I just hate Zoom so much that the agony makes me sleepy. 

It's finally started to cool down here and then the weather report says a monsoon is in the south so it will be hot and muggy again by the end of the week, grrr. 

What a Month!

On the stitching front I have another finish.  It seems appropriate for Memorial Day, which in Ukraine was May 8.  My local Daiso had 11 ct aida that I bought a bunch of because it was $1, and I really enjoy the hugeness of the holes! The cat has darker blue and yellow stripes but they don't really show up:  

"Glory to Ukraine" by CuteFoxyShop (Etsy)

In news about the rest of my life,

DH's uncle died and it's been a whirlwind for the last month.  Uncle had 3 phones and chargers because he was the kind of guy who liked to keep old technology around even if he wasn't using it.  All the phones were dead and only one of them had service, and Auntie couldn't figure out which phone was active and which phone went to which charger, so she was just sitting there with Uncle's body for a few days before a neighbor found them.  The Sheriff sent her to the hospital because she was incoherent and dehydrated, and then we went to war with the hospital to get her back home - they wanted her in a nursing facility but she wanted to be on the homestead, and we were on her side all the way.  So she's back home and the we've been staying with her and it's been wild.  She's having a lot of memory problems and it turns out her liver is failing. 

Sooo...it's been a process to figure out what she could do and if she really could stay in her home, and then deciding yes, and then getting everything cleaned up and cleared out and more safe for someone her age. The great news is that day to day she's fine - she's very mobile and can clean the house and putter in the garden and watch her game shows without any help from us, which is exactly what we thought and why we fought the hospital.  She just can't pay her bills or cook or get groceries, which is kind of a lot, but it's also stuff the family can do.  We've settled into a routine a little bit and are starting to kind of catch our breath, but yowza! We've been too busy to really even care that Uncle died - it seems awful, but the mindset is we'll be sad later, we just have too much to do. 

A howdy from Kuna from her first Memorial Day with us - her first trip to the park after being in the shelter:  

She's gotten a few gray hairs but she's still a great lady!