Finally! Zipline photo

 First, story time.

There was a tatter in our group, an older lady. She learned tatting with us and it wasn't easy for her because her hands shook (I don't know why and she didn't confide in me). And she made a stole for her pastor. She tatted crosses, end to end, and then sewed this stole and sewed the crosses to it. We helped with some ideas but she did all the work. 

Once she was done, we encouraged her to enter it in competition at the fair. She was reluctant because she didn't feel her work was all that good, shaking hands, etc. She was awarded a well-deserved blue ribbon, in a competition that doesn't hand out ribbons if there are no entries worthy of a ribbon no matter how many entries there are. Her pastor was thrilled with the stole, as well. 

If you ever think, "Oh, I'm too old to start this" just remember her. 

As promised, me, on a zipline (photographer was on the ground)

I've been tatting pen clip bookthongs. I've using size 20 and size 40, and making some long enough for paperbacks and some for trade paperbacks (possibly long enough for hardbacks).

 

Debby came through. Flooding concerns but thanks to the lack of high winds in our area, we only lost a few trees. One was a Southern sugar maple at Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh. 

fallen tree, looks like tree roots broke

southern clam shell mushrooms on the fallen; you can see the growth rings on the closest one

 It's funny. Mordecai is only about five minutes from the library where we used to meet, it's easier to get parking (no competing with the shopping center crowd) but fewer of our tatters make it to the meetings.

 Anitra and I bought of load of tatting supplies from FB marketplace. It arrived a couple weeks ago, but she's been too tired to look through it. We went through it after the Tri-Tatters meeting. It took us two hours to go through it, sort it, and to list the contents in a spreadsheet.

Box upon opening

After sorting everything and grouping like items together

Pictures and fund

 At my aunt's funeral, I asked my cousins for old photos. One of my cousins mentioned how his mom was practically nonverbal, but on the phone with my mom she was a chatterbox. There was there was a memory connection though, and she was her old self. That gave me the idea to get old photos for mom.

There's one of mom, that's probably when she was a nursing student. 

 

There's also a few with Great-grandfather, great-grandmother, their son my grandfather, plus aunts, my mom, and a couple of my older cousins. This is one one aunt, her grandfather (my great-grandfather), her father (my granddaddy), my mom who is holding my oldest 1st cousin, and his sister.

Tuesday, the Employee Forum had our team building at the Outdoor Education Center. Which is great, by the way. And this year, I went up and rode the zip line. It wasn't easy for me, outside my comfort zone, but I did it and it was fun. When I have pictures, I'll share them. I'm still waiting for the pictures.

I'm tatting triangles to make bookmarks.

It has been egregiously hot. We've had heat advisories more often than not.