More Poppa Tasks

What is he up to now???

Nope - that's not Poppa!  That is Bob.  He owns the unit two doors down from us and he was kind enough to offer to help Poppa refresh the lines in our parking lot.  As you can probably guess - he is painting the square for the handicapped parking space.

Here are the two of them, carefully painting the lines for the angle in the Visitor Lot.  They did such a good job!

Here is a look at the parking lot in front of our unit - you can see our car in the centre of the photo (the blue one!).  And... when they were all done painting the lines..........

...... they painted the border on the handicapped spot.  Poppa was waiting for the stencil (from Amazon) to paint on the symbol.  And, that same day....

......... we had a very brief visit from Uncle Mike.  And to make it even better, Terry, Blake and Braydon were with him.  For those of you who are not family members - Terry is Aunt Denise's son, Blake and Braydon are his two boys.  They live in Alberta so we do not see them often.  They have sure grown since last time we saw them - that is Blake with Uncle Mike.  Wow!

This is Terry, Braydon, Blake and Uncle Mike.  They were picking up some of Aunt Denise's stuff that was stored in our garage.  It was great to see them - we probably won't see them again for a couple of years at least!

What's Poppa Doing Now??

Okay - here is the picture....

....can you guess what is going on???  Those two ladies each own a unit in the large apartment-type building.  

Here is Poppa checking out something...........

.......... now what's he doing???

I quit watching for a while and did some cleaning.  Next time I looked out, Poppa was staining the landscape timber around the bottom stair landing.  Now that the wooden stairs have been replaced and look so nice, the consensus was that those landscape timbers tooked kinda shabby.  

So - Poppa decided to stain them.  Needless to say, since it had been so long since anyone had done that - the colour turned out a shade darker than the stairs, but they have already faded in the sunlight since the day he treated them - and they look much, much better!  Then he scraped any loose paint off the wrought iron fence and....

....... then one of the ladies offered to paint the bare spots - another nice improvement in the appearance of our space!

While they did all that -

......... I put the finishing touches on Lauren's blanket - oh yes - big news - Lauren was born yesterday at 4:53 in the afternoon and weighed in at 7lbs and 15 oz.  Aunt Jeannie is now a grandmother! I'll post a pictue as soon as one becomes available!

Still Behind....

But, I'm going to try to catch up!  Honest!

Here is a better picture of the blanket for Aunt Jeannie's soon-to-arrive grand-daughter.

You can see the little roses better and then you can see why I chose to put knitted roses on the corners of the blanket.  The little roses came from Aunt Peggy.  She had them at her house and asked me one day if I would have any use for them.  I thought they finished off this outfit just perfectly and thought of her very fondly while I sewed them on.  I hope Lauren and her parents like them too!

This is the hat of the next outfit I made for the hospital.  I just liked it and thought you might like to see it up close!

And, here is the rest of the outfit.  Any of you who have known me for a long time will know that I have been knitting this popcorn set from an old pattern book that I have had since Mommy was just a little girl!  I've gotten more proficient at it over the years and pretty yarn like this makes it even better!

Here is Taffy showing off her relaxed, but chic, outfit for a cooler day this spring - just before we got our heat wave!

And.... this is the blanket I was working on in May - I have sent another one since then - and I will show you the picture of this one all finished when I get to that folder in my pictures (that means sometime "soon").  It is almost done in this picture, I just added a border and sent if off to the hospital with Auntie Cecile.

Poppa and Squeegie were taking a break - doing some jigsaw puzzles on the computer - Poppa loves doing that (and of course Squeegie helps him immensely!).

But - it didn't take too long before Poppa was outside working again - seeping up the sand that washed down from the road during a big rainfall .