Tiny Needle Tuesday 9/29/20

 Good Morning!

How are you?  I am sleepy after yet another night of tossing and turning in the middle of the night.  But, I'm home today, so I can always sneak in a nap if I need to.  It is also grey and damp out - not raining, but you can feel the moisture in the air, and that is not making it any easier for me to feel wakeful.

I spent yesterday morning in the office.  Tom from IT was able to figure out what was happening with my laptop.  Skype for Business - which we don't use, so I'm not sure why it was loaded onto my laptop in March - was screwing things up.  We kind of disabled it and now everything is fine.  Tom was the only person I saw until just about the time I was leaving at Noon when Sally from HR rounded the corner from her office.  I managed to get a lot of things done - printing in color and on what we call "big boy" paper!  It's ledger paper (11x17) and perfect for really large spreadsheets, etc.  And I shipped off a big package to Kevin.  The UPS guy has a key to get into our office, so he is still delivering each day and picking up packages each afternoon.

By a little after Noon I had finished everything I wanted to do at the office, so headed out.  I stopped at Joann's for some DMC floss and then stopped in at Trader Joe's.  We were in the mood for salmon for dinner, but there was none at home.  I got that and a few veggies and headed home.  The afternoon wasn't terribly busy work-wise and I was able to shoot another few rounds of archery.  I can feel it in my arms today!

Well, it is the last Tiny Needle Tuesday (TNT) in September!  Not sure how that happened so quickly, but tomorrow is the last day of September.  I'm happy to say that Dona Dorothea is finished!  I can't remember when I started stitching this (I don't keep records of that), but I know it had been "put away" for several (or more than several) years.  Most likely it was around 2013 or 2014.

This really is a pretty sampler and I really am happy to have finished it (LOL).  Here's a close up of the final section:

I like the way the Greek key motif looks.  And, a close up of my favorite creature in this - the checkerboard deer!

The flower (carnation?) in his/her mouth cracks me up.

I have chosen my next piece to stitch, but I have not yet started it (hopefully today).  It is a Quaker style sampler - more about it next week.

Meanwhile, I will leave you (I need to get busy with work) with shots of two different trees I saw as I drove down the long driveway to my office building.  Stunning!  

It never fails to move me when I see Fall foliage like this.  Simply glorious.

Hope your week is going well.