Oh Happy Day!.....Rotten Peaches

   

 Loss of my mojo.

I have been drifting for days. 

I seemed to have no desire to do anything 

except rummage through my patterns and 

look around blog land.

I have pulled out plenty of ideas 

but none seemed to catch my interest.

I tried about 3 different motifs.

All were cast aside.

Then I ran across Dutch Girl Diary 

and found her blog right here.

Go meet Erin and read her delightful postings.

The thing that really caught my eye was 

her tutorial on the Log Cabin Potholder 

which can be found on her sidebar. 

 I was hooked.

This is my start to another colorful way 

to use up that stash of yarns, the left overs 

from various projects.

 This is my kind of fun. 

So I immediately grabbed my hook and 

got started. I admit to tweaking Erin's pattern 

just a tad. Instead of doing ch2 turn, I am 

doing a ch3 turn, I know, no big deal really, 

but I found the end ch3's were easier 

when it came time to join at the end of a row.

 

Now on the flip side,   

I will have these to deal with. 

I am promising myself not to get too 

far ahead of myself with tackling those 

lose ends. 

It will be great to be making a big dent 

in all these yarns because I intend to 

keep crocheting around and around till 

there isn't much of this stuff left. 

Who knows, maybe even a pillow or two is 

in the future here. 

With a log cabin design one usually keeps 

all the light colors to one side and 

all the darks on the other. 

I don't plan to do any of that, 

I'm just gonna go with the flow and 

not follow any set rules.

I did keep with the tradition of a 

red or yellow center. 

That signifies the ♥ of the log cabin 

which was usually the fireplace.

The warm color represents the fire 

in the hearth.

Okay, so I am a happy camper now 

and once again my hook is workin' it.

Before I sign off I want to show you 

what my husband brought home from 

the grocery store on Tuesday.

He went into town to get the gas cans 

filled for the lawn mowers.

I told him how about stopping and 

picking up some fruit. He did get a bag 

of apples and some oranges. Bless his ♥,

he happened to pick up 3 loose peaches 

and bagged them up.

When I first saw them I thought maybe 

they were "freebies" and the store was 

just trying to be rid of them.

Wrong, he said he paid over $1.70 for 

these.......

I about crapped! Peaches are expensive 

always, it is no matter that they grow them 

locally around here, they are always costly.

Too costly to be selling this kind of rotten 

produce. So I just couldn't let it go and I 

called the store and told them what I 

had cut into, and that I wanted our $ back.

Of course the manager had to be called to the 

phone and I explained to her that I had 

3 rotten peaches and that the person who 

was in charge of their produce section 

needed to go check out those peaches and 

not sell them. I also told her that I was not 

coming back into town that day to retrieve 

less than $2 but I would come and get our 

$ or 3 good peaches the next time I had to 

make a trip into town. I mean it would defeat 

the purpose if I had to burn gas for a round 

trip to and from the store. I told her I took 

pics of them as proof and would show her. 

She was actually very nice about it and 

told me to come in when I could and they 

would make it right. I guess the squeaky 

wheel does get the peach.

Those peaches are like gold.

It has been years since I bought any.

Four little slices from the first peach, 

and they were kinda mushy.

You really have to watch what you buy, 

that is for sure. 

Other than that my day was peachy, 

peachy keen with a skein of you know what!

~♥~