by Kat | Jul 21, 2025 | General, In This Moment
As summer continues to be warm and muggy I am trying to stay in the present rather than dreaming of autumn. But the struggle is real! I really am over the constant hum of the AC… and, more honestly, I am so over the AC is running all the time electric bills!
I do have some family updates to share. My son and my daughter-in-law learned last week that their twins are girls!
And I can finally share some news that I have been keeping under my hat for some time now… my Heidi is also pregnant and due in early November. They are not finding out “what they are having” and they are working on getting ready to welcome another baby to their house! (but she is very happy it is just one baby versus the twins her brother is having… ha!)
Hitting the Nana Lottery is a very good thing! I am almost doubling the number of grandkids I have this year… from four to seven just like that!
Now for the reminder… next week Monday — July 28 — is our monthly word update! I will have my post up early and will leave the link up open for the week! I am excited to share with you how I did in July and I am eager to read about how you all did!
That’s all I have for today… see you all back here on Wednesday!
by Kat | Jul 14, 2025 | General, In This Moment
Is for finding gratitude…
Thank you so much for all your thoughts and well wishes for me last week. Gratitude Number One… I am so thankful for all of you!
Not only was it a “test-a-thon” of a week… I was also tested with the road construction! Yes, if you are in Pittsburgh and you think every road is under construction…. you’d be right. Both the tests and the roads tested the limits of my patience. I survived… and I am grateful. Gratitude Number Two… surviving is absolutely something to be grateful for.
All the test results came back within “normal ranges” which is a very good thing. Gratitude Number Three… being tested and having good results.
I am hopeful that as the week progresses finding gratitude will become easier and easier.
Happy Monday everyone!
by Kat | Jun 16, 2025 | General, In This Moment
…arrives with lots of weekend “loose ends.” Sigh. The weather impeded the mulch delivery and the clothes line installation. It looks like rain could be happening at any moment this morning so I doubt these things will be coming today.
But the weather did facilitate lots of “making” time!
I finished my Alabama Chanin sampler piece… and learned so much. I bought a “kit” to make a scarf and I am excited to get started on it. One thing I need to plan better than I did in my sampler piece is the start and end of stitches on a piece that has “raw edges” like this scarf will have. I like the look of fully formed stitches at each edge versus what I did as I began learning how to make the stitches. I spent some time over the weekend tidying up those edges. I have another small sample piece which I will practice some stitches with beads. Not a lot of beading, mind you… but I think a few beads here and there would be lovely additions to this project.
I also finished up Gniddy and Gnoddy! (Stay tuned for the big reveal on Wednesday!)
And I managed to add another inch or two on the green vest!
Happy Monday everyone! See you all back here on Wednesday!
by Kat | Jun 9, 2025 | General, In This Moment
After a very rainy, steamy, warm weekend… it seems that summer weather is upon us. The second wave of allium are about to burst open, the bee balm is nearly five feet tall, the lavender has exploded, and the weeds are taking advantage of the rain and each morning I feel a bit more like I am losing the battle.
But the Orioles have landed! Yes, that is right… this weekend we saw Baltimore Orioles at the jelly feeder multiple times! Last year, not a single Oriole visited, but my persistence has paid off! “Good things come to those who wait” has been ringing in my head all weekend!
I had some “Gnome-spiration” over the weekend as I worked away on the sweater of the Big Sister Gnome. I am knitting at a frenzied pace to get my inspiration to reality… (think a bit of a riff on Lindsey Degen’s 4 Letter Sweater) I hope to show you all how my ideas worked on Wednesday… stay tuned!
Finally, on the top of my list this morning is to begin working on my medicare choices with PA MEDI. Wish me luck! Ha!
Happy Monday all and I will see you all back here on Wednesday!
by Kat | May 19, 2025 | Aging Gracefully, General, In This Moment
is for finding one’s way back!
Several years ago… and I mean several several’s… I was a paying member of Robin Long’s online Pilates workouts. And then I stopped being a paying member and I remember thinking, I know all the “moves” and I can just keep going on my own.
I think you all know the answer is I did not.
And then “things” started happening… I had issues with a hip flexor muscle and did a good number of weeks of PT to work on that issue. (you would think this would be my wake up call and I would at least try to remember and do the “Pilates Moves” on my own, but nope, I did not!)
This latest “thing” is not fun at all, I must confess. This bladder/pelvic floor muscle issue I am having is the biggest pain in my backside…literally. So now I am back at weekly PT working on a different muscle group… in roughly the same area where those hip flexors intersect… the “thing”?? It’s the little thought but incredibly important pelvic floor muscles and how they can impact one’s quality of life. I have the opposite issue many women my age have – being too relaxed. Sigh. Mine are in a constant state of tension…which they might not be if their neighboring muscle groups were doing any work at all.
And so, I have been spending the past 3 weeks working on waking up those neighboring muscles… doing yoga that very much feels like Robin Long’s Pilates exercises. Each week, my therapist adds a couple more things to add to my routine… which is now taking me just over an hour to complete each day… way more time than the 15-ish minutes that Robin’s routines typically lasted. Sigh.
Pro-tip… don’t abandon something that is working with thoughts that you can “do it yourself”… I can’t help but wonder if I would have needed any PT ever had I just stayed the course with Robin.
I might be slow on the learning curve but I am paying attention now… and yes, I renewed my Pilates membership over the weekend. And now I need to get that first “round” of PT exercises in and then poke around and figure out the new Pilates App!
Happy Monday, everyone! See you all back here on Wednesday!
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