June 6-7, 2015 Weekend, Sad News, Moxi Junction Meeting, Watching the Garden Grow, and Another Tutu

Sad and tragic news here in Wichita, one of our beloved restaurant owners was murdered in her own home sometime between Wednesday and Thursday night. I found out the devastating news on Friday morning. I have talked about going to Tanya’s Soup Kitchen many times here on my blog and how I love her soups and the freshness of the food she served. I always enjoyed seeing her flit about talking to her many friends and customers. The last time John and I were in her restaurant she stopped to talk to me as she often did. But this time she told me how much she loved my purple in my hair and that she might just try that some time. Tanya will be sorely missed, but I have heard that her family and employees will keep her legacy alive by keeping her restaurant open and ran just like she would have ran it. Rest in Peace, Tanya.

Saturday morning was spent in Newton teaching four lovely ladies; Alicia, Alexus, Zelly, and Megan. I’m looking forward to seeing them again next Saturday to start them off with a chain. they all caught on quite rapidly and I do believe that I may have hooked four more. 🙂 Thank you Catherine for letting me teach in Newton and for letting me use your little mannequin to try on the olive and purple tutu. It helps to see it actually on a body, even though it’s not real. 😉

After I left Newton, I met up with my dear friend and fellow crocheter; Susie to

talk to Joanna who owns Moxi Junction in Maize, Kansas. We have chosen her lovely coffee house to have our KS My Stitch Crochet Guild Annual Retreat there. We worked out all the details of the rental and the food and then I left for home.

I found John watering the plants.

I love these geraniums that my sister-in-law, Andrea planted for us.

I am so excited to see some of the seeds coming up that we planted last weekend.

The rose moss makes me smile every time I see it. I can see it from my kitchen window too and I know why it makes me smile so much, because it reminds me of Mom.

The little tomato plant that is called the Tami G. plant is getting eaten by some kind of insect. Probably a tomato worm. John will have to get his trusty garlic concoction bug spray ready. Anyway, after we watered the plants we ended the night by watching a movie.

Sunday morning I decided I wanted to go and find a plant for the box that John built that sits under our mailbox. I knew Stuzman’s greenhouse had some little planters that would be a perfect fit. I was so glad I went because all of their flowers and plants were now 50% off. I also wanted to go by the cemetery to see about planting the little portoluca moss plant into the planter on Mom’s headstone. I was upset with myself that I forgot to grab a little dirt and my planting shovel before leaving the house. But I asked the nice lady that works at Stuzman’s if they had any shovels or little bit of potting soil that I could buy? I told her that I was going to transplant a little plant at my Mom’s gravesite. The nice lady said I have a shovel in my trunk of my car that you can borrow and just take the soil.

I told her that I would be right back with the shovel. I arrived at Mom’s grave

and replanted the moss into the little vase on the side of her headstone.

I decided today that I would sit a while and look at all the views from where Mom’s gravesite is.

Mom used to tell me how she loved the site of her grave, because she was surrounded by some of her neighbors and friends, the Duttons, Niggs,

Cochrans,

and her Mother-in-law and Father-in-law.

There are wheat fields all around as well. Mom always loved talking about how pretty the wheat was this time of the year and this year it looks exceptionally good.

Since I was traveling down Tyler road to go back to Stutzman’s to return the shovel I decided to stop by Carlson Products.

Carlson is where I worked when I first got out of High School.

I bet most of you didn’t know this but I made insulated aluminum doors for a little over a year. You talk about hard work. They had no heating and no air conditioning in this building when I worked there. I remember I had to wear steel toed boots and worked on a cement floor all day long. At night I would have such bad pains in my legs that I would have to run ice cold water on them to numb them in order for me to sleep. I used a table saw, drill, rivet gun, and an industrial sized glue gun. I’m so glad that I don’t have to work there any more. 🙂

Anyway, I didn’t have much time to crochet this weekend, but I did manage to make

this adorable tutu dress. I love the way the black looks with the aqua and those buttons are pretty adorable too. So what do you think? Did you all have a good weekend? I hope so. Have a wonderful Monday.