We have a winner!

Greetings all, from a beautiful, sunny 78 degrees day in central AZ! Happy Mother's Day!💐🌹I just got home from spending a few hours with my daughter. She took some time off work. We went to my mother's gravesite to leave flowers and clean up her grave, and talk. We then went to my grandmother's and cousin's graves to say hello. Then my daughter bought me lunch. It's always good to spend time with her, our work schedules don't jibe.

Carol, I had to laugh at your comment on my last post about stitching up a 3rd Jack's Bash! Nah, I'm done, haha!

I unfortunately hurt my right arm two Fridays ago. A freak accident that is kind of embarrassing but I think I pulled a muscle in my upper arm. My stitching arm, I'm right handed, so I've only been able to stitch a little before it begins to ache. I iced it immediately after it happened and have kept up after work. Its getting better though. Mobility is getting better. 

I did start a Maynia project before the accident...

This is Long May She Wave by Asbery's Echoes Stitches, she's at Etsy. I had the left banner already done. The right side is post-accident and took the whole 8 days just to stitch it! I had to excuse myself from the swap I had joined in the fb group Homespun Needlework, I think, because there was no way I was going to finish before the deadline which is the 24th. Here's what it should look like...

I'll finish it the same way.

If there's a silver lining from my bad arm, it's that I finally finished a thick book I started in January. I miss stitching! 

We have a winner from the giveaway on the last post and that is Linda!! Woohoo! I have your address and will be mailing the chart this coming week. Hope your stitching slump has taken to the road. 

So did anybody catch the Aurora Borealis that appeared Friday night in the US? It came all the way to Arizona and even clear down to the US and Mexico border! I've seen pictures from Tucson. Here's how it looked in my area...

Is that not crazy?! I didn't know this was going to happen. I got home from work and started seeing pictures so I went outside and could see a dark pink glow in the sky to the north. Later, I learned that you needed to turn your camera setting to night mode to catch all the colors. My first time ever of seeing this. My dad was born and raised in Montana and had seen it lots of times.

Want to know how my century plant is doing?

This thing has reached the roof section of my porch. It's easily 10 or 11ft high. I have to push it a little to clear the roof line, no telling how much more it'll grow! Here's the bottom...

I've seen these plenty of times in the surrounding hills but never this close!

And that is all she wrote! Due to her bad arm, she may not have anything stitchy to write about!

I'll keep at Long May She Wave, stitch as much as I can.

Thanks for stopping in and commenting!

Take care!