A Dog Story

While perusing my daily reads, I came upon this awesome post from Yarnhog.
If you're a dog lover, it's a must read.
After you're done reading, please go hug your dog. :-)
Click here ~~~> To whomever gets my dog:
:-)

Autumn

I am so ready for Fall. I've gone ahead and changed my header and font colors to reflect the new season.
Bring on the cooler weather.

Grandparent's Day

Did you know today is Grandparent's Day?

I only knew about it because I saw it on my calendar. I've always known Grandparent's had their own day of celebration, and rightfully so, but I didn't know the exact date or much of its origin, so I researched it on the internet. This is the information I found, but if you would like to read more about it click here.
When is Grandparents Day? Grandparents Day is celebrated each year on the first Sunday after Labor Day. The specific date changes year-to-year. Because it is tied to Labor Day, however, Grandparents Day is never earlier than September 7 or later than September 13.... more info
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Since I no longer have any living grandparents, I have spiritually adopted Valerie's grandmother, Granny.
First of all, if you're not familiar with Valerie, let me introduce you to her.
She is an incredible woman, that does it all. She has raised four beautiful children, showers her grandchildren with love while passing onto them her southern traditions, grows an impressive garden, renovates houses, enjoys fishing and traveling with her husband, volunteers at her church and shares recipes on her food blog.
Wow! I can only aspire to accomplish this much in my life.
So, as the story goes, while bloghopping one day, I came across her blog Lifes Little Garden and like they say, the rest is history.
Valerie is very generous with her personal life especially with stories about her Granny.
Granny has been featured on her blog many times and along with many bloggers, I have fallen in love with Granny and her sweet soul. I informed Valerie that I have spiritually adopted Granny (hope she doesn't mind) and this is why.
Granny is 95 years young and follows a daily routine that entails, reading her bible, making her lunch, (depending on the day-of-the-week) doing some laundry, and making precious quilts.
With the help of a digital camera, we get to come along with Valerie on her visits with Granny.
On one particular Granny post, I saw a stack of quilts in one of the photos and wondered if they were for sale. Ask and you shall receive. I was so excited when Valerie informed me that Granny was selling them if I was interested. I gave her my color preferences and sent-off the check. Before I knew it, I had my quilt and I love, love, love it!

Valerie recently shared two videos of Granny finishing a quilt on her sewing machine. It was so touching to see this sweet lady so focused on her project, all the while blessing it with her love of creating something from the heart. I feel so fortunate to own one. I lovingly call mine Granny's Prayer Quilt. Every night I have it with me and as I say my prayers I include Granny and consider myself blessed...our paths crossed for a reason and He only knows why.
So, Happy Grandparents Day to Granny and all the Grandparents who are lucky enough to be surrounded by their loved ones today.

In Memory

As the towers stood tall and mighty, as if posing for the tourist on a hot summer day, August 11, 1995, I could have never imagined the events that would take place six years later on September 11, 2001.

On the morning of September 11th, I was glued to my television and cried for a week.

An interesting story my friend shared with me after the attacks was about one of the hijackers. She happens to work for Homeland Security and part of her job requires her to get extensive training regarding terrorist. A couple of years prior to the 9/11 attacks, one of the hijackers tried entering the USA through the US/Mexico border crossing in San Ysidro, but her Supervisor had a strong hunch about this character. After a thorough inspection and interrogation, he was denied entry. Unfortunately, the same hijacker attempted entry for the second time, and succeeded through the Los Angeles airport.
After the 9/11 attacks, the news began to share airport video showing the hijackers boarding the planes that would eventually crash into the towers. In these videos, my friend's Supervisor immediately recognized one of the hijackers as the person who he had denied entry through the San Ysidro Port of Entry. It still gives me the chills thinking about it.

(Photo by Derek Jensen (Tysto), 2004-September-11)

For the people who lost their loved ones on September 11, 2001, we remember with you and stand united.

Lurking

I haven't posted in for-evah. What I've been doing lately is a lot of lurking and commenting on everyone's blogs.
I LOVE to bloghop. It's what I do.
On tonight's post, I'm coming clean with my lack of Sweater KAL participation. I've been a bad KALer.
The weather finally cooled down enough to do some knitting but my arm and elbow are aching. Hmm...I feel a case of arthritis or tennis elbow coming on.
Hopefully not. It's a self-diagnosis, after all. I do that a lot.
I've also diagnosed myself having a case of carpel tunnel, possible breast cancer, a lazy ovary (SATC anyone?), heartaches, stiff neck, which is connected to the aching arm and fingers, depression and blindness (without my contact lenses, I can confidently say, I am blind). Man, I'm a mess.
Lol... sometimes, I can be such a hypochondriac.
Thankfully the serious illnesses are only in my head and I don't complain or whine about it to my friends or family.
I choose to suffer in silence. :-)

Something else I do(did)... watch Season Four of Felicity. I received S4 a few weeks ago, but lagged with the posting. I had a Felicity S4 marathon the next day. Loving it!

Included on the Loving List is the new season of The Rachel Zoe Project and Project Runway.

After watching episode 2 of Rachel Zoe, I decided to be on Team Taylor. Poor girl runs around town like crazy, and the way the show is edited, it's becoming clear that Rachel Zoe is taking her for granted. One major observation...Taylor's fashion sense of style. I love it...effortless, stylish and put together well.

On Project Runway...I got the scoop from Jen. Thanks Jen.
It was Mitchell's time to go home. The dude didn't sew anything...sheesh. I can't help but feel for Mitchell; He's a nice and honest guy.

Till next time... Rock on!

WORLD CHAMPS!

Today the Park View Little League team from Chula Vista aka The USA Little League Champs played against the team from Chinese Taipei to prove who would be The World Little League Champs and with a score of 6-3 ... they did it!

picture courtesy of Reuters via Yahoo! News

CONGRATULATIONS BOYS!!