Mostly Slow Stitching

It was another day of slow here. The morning was spent slow-stitching, in the usual way. I filled my hoop again.

When I moved my hoop, I was able to encompass the last of it.

We were a little more lively after that. Mike and I went for a short bike ride. His ride was longer. He rode back to the RV with me when I'd had enough, and then he rode a little more. I'm still riding with a significant amount of fear, and so I keep my outings short. Also, it makes my arm hurt a little reaching out for the handle bars. It was a good ride though. I figure each time I can ride successfully, I'll have a little less fear for the next time. And, besides, it was a really lovely day yesterday. We were able to be out riding with just jeans and sweatshirts (and helmets). No coats were necessary.

When Mike got back from his ride, we got Smitty out for a short walk. The image below shows you the exact distance Smitty walked. 

There was a woman (out of sight) at the next campsite. She was talking using a rather loud voice, and that spooked Smitty. He was only out for less than a minute when he wanted back in the RV

In another split second, he was nearly in full-blown panic mode. Have you ever had the experience of walking, say, out of a darkened basement, when something spooks you a little and suddenly you're on the run with monsters nipping at your heels? (Happens to me all the time.) Yeah...that's a little how it is with Smitty. Oh well. We'll try again.

Sadie seems completely at peace with her indoor-only status. When Smitty has his harness on, she runs to the catio where she can watch and walk vicariously.

Later in the afternoon, I finished off the second basket.

I'd show you the two together except that...

Okay...there we go.

And then I got the third one ready to go. These are hard to see when there's no stitching.

There was just a little bit of floss left on my needle when I hooped it up, and so I stitched just this little bit.

That's where I'll pick it up this morning. There's a lot more stitching to be done on this one. I won't have it finished as quickly.

The sky had the makings of a pretty sunset, and so my shadow self and I went for a walk.

We had to walk quite a distance from the campground to get out from behind the trees for a picture. Everything was taking on tones of red in the twilight of the setting sun.

To my left, the reeds at the lake's edge were very pretty, and the lake was mirror smooth.

There was a family packing up to leave in the area where I wanted to stand, but I managed to capture the sunset from where I stood. 

And that was the end of our day. It gets chilly when the sun goes down, and so we all end up back in our RV's after that.

Today two more couples will join us here, and we have a dinner planned together. I made a lasagna and froze it before we left home. Others are contributing side dishes and dessert. We'll need to figure out when and how to do this because it really is too cold to be outside after dark. We can build a campfire, and we have at least two propane campfires along with us. Possibly we can heat the outdoors enough to stay comfortable. If not, we may all pile into someone's RV to eat our dinner. Either way, it's going to be a fun day with more people here, and I'm looking forward to it.

I've been getting up early to write these posts. If I can get on the "internets" before anyone else in the campground starts using their phone and stealing my bandwidth, I can upload my pictures before the sun rises. And no one can accuse me of stealing bandwidth because, obviously, what I'm doing is important, doncha know. And, once again, I rest my case.

Okay, so you guys are fully informed about the goings-on here, and I can get on with my other internet ways. Just now, I noticed the pretty sunrise out our back window.

It's going to be a good day here. I hope you're going to have a good day too.