Photo a Day Challenge--Day 10

October Photo a Day Challenge: Day 10

 

I am doing the October photo a day challenge.  Here is today’s photo.

 

 

Day 10: Emotion

October Photo Challenge

October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 5 through 9

 

I am doing the October photo a day challenge. I’m a little behind after being away for the holiday weekend, so I’m catching up here.

 

Day 5: Shadow

 

 

 

Day 6: I’m thankful for…

 

 

My husband, my dog, eating outside on warm summer evenings!

 

 

Day 7: Light

 

 

 

Day 8: Angle

 

 

Day 9: Red

 

October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 3 and 4

I'm doing the October photo a day challenge. Just a day behind so far...here are days 3 and 4.


Day 3: This Happened Today

It rained!



Day 4: What I'm reading now.

Photo a Day Challenge

October Photo a Day Challenge: Days 1 and 2

 

I’ve decided to try to do the photo a day challenge for October. I may not get all thirty-one, but I’ll try! It sounds like fun. Anybody else want to join?

 

Here are days 1 and 2:

Day 1: A photo of where you stood when taking the picture

On my stairs.

 

 

 

 

Day 2: A photo of your lunch.

 

 

Half of a bean and vegetable burrito, brought home from a restaurant a few days earlier. (It tasted much better than it looks here.) With a cup of green tea.

 

 

Crochet Fever Comes Back

Crochet Fever Comes Back

 

The cooler weather has rekindled (pun intended) my crochet passion. I’ve been going at it like a demon lately.

 

These photos are for Work in Progress Wednesday:

 

 

I’m finally learning how to make granny squares! Two more rounds of color to go on this one: orange and red. This is made with Lily Sugar 'n' Cream.

 

It’ll be about 18 inches, so I’m not sure yet where I’ll put it, but I love working with the different colors.

 

 

 

 

These are two pieces of a vest I started last winter and just got back to. The yarn is a beautiful, soft merino from Manos del Uruguay.

 

 

 

I just bought this lovely gray yarn to start a shawl.

 

I'm also still participating in my church's prayer shawl ministry. And there will be more to come--I'm into it now!

 

 

Wear Purple and Walk

 

Many of you know that I lost my mother a month ago. For the past few years I watched her suffer as her brain gave way to the destruction caused by dementia.

 

September is World Alzheimer’s Month, dedicated to raising awareness of this terrible disease. Today, September 21, is Alzheimer’s Action Day. The Alzheimer’s Association is calling on everyone to show support for the fight against Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

 

Almost every minute another American gets Alzheimer's, and as the baby boom generation gets older those numbers will double. This is our fight, those of us who are still young enough to be able to take action in a way that those who are afflicted no longer can. We can work to change our futures and ensure that neither we nor generations after us will have to suffer from this debilitating, mind-destroying disease.

 

Today, Alzheimer’s Action Day, wear or carry something purple, the color of the Alzheimer’s movement, to honor all those with this disease and their caregivers. Walks to End Alzheimer’s are being held all around the country to raise awareness and funds. My husband and I and a friend will be participating in one on Sunday.

 

 

 

Is there one in your area that you could sign up for?

 

If you can, consider making a monthly donation to the Alzheimer’s Association. I do, and the amount is charged to my credit card. I don’t even need to think about it, yet I know I’m doing something to help.

 

What can you do?

 

 

Birthday Musings

 

We moved to a new neighborhood when I was fourteen (same city, just a different part), and I soon found out that, within a three-block radius, three other people had the same birthday as mine--today, September 19. One was a woman across the street who became my mother’s best friend. The other two were boys a few years younger than I was. We might have had a block party but never did.

 

What are the odds of that? I read once one of those interesting little factoids—that may not be facts at all—that if you have a certain number of people in a room, the odds are good that two of them would have the same birthday. I have no head for numbers, so I don’t remember how many people (although it was much closer to a dozen than to 366) or what the odds were. But in every place I’ve worked, every school I went to, among all the people I’ve known well enough to know their birthdays, I have not since met anyone else who had the same birthday as mine. And yet there were four of us at that particular time within three blocks of each other.

 

Do you know some of the famous people who share your birthday? When I fell in love with “The Man from UNCLE” I was thrilled to learn that David McCallum had the same birthday as mine. Younger people probably know him from NCIS, but to me he’ll always be Illya Kuryakin. And he’s looking darn good for 79. Also Jeremy Irons--not a bad person either to share a birthday with. And--how many people remember them?--Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, the one with the deep voice.  Not to mention Adam West of TV Batman fame.

 

So, how many of you know who you share your birthday with?

 

On a more sober note, this will be my first birthday without my mother. I’ll miss her terribly, of course, but it’s made easier by the fact that for the last couple of years she didn’t know when my birthday was, and when we told her she’d look disappointed and say “I didn’t get you anything”--knowing she was frustrated and upset with herself for her lack of memory. So today I honor her and thank her for the gift of life she gave me.

 

Thanks, Mom, and I’ll always love you.