Sorry it has been a while since I've posted anything. Life has been a bit busy over the summer and into fall, it hasn't slowed.

I've been doing a lot, tired a lot and just trying to catch up on things.

I hate how behind I am on some things.

I hate how I can't find other things that will help me with what I need to get done.

I've visited my Nana's grave.

I've been in the Pentagon...and had shrimp and grits to eat.

I've demonstrated needlefelting and spinning. I now have an Ashford Kiwi that I can use, it is a double treadle and a lot more portable than my Ashford Traditional.

I've been assisting a guy in an nursing home with reorganizing his room.

I've been sewing.

I've been the one at the helm of a 50ft sailing vessel, steering it out of harbor, up the Californian coast and back to harbor thanks to my uncle deciding I needed to have the experience.

I got to be one of the only two in a room that wasn't blond when my family got together...of course in that same get together, everyone but mom was taller than me.

The re-emergence of my nickname "Mangula" reemerged after mom had lapband (in April) and I insisted on walking with her. Since she had started to lose weight (last year after being taken off of avandia) she is down 75lbs and a couple of sizes.

I had to retire the big purple fluffy hat. It was falling apart. However, I do have other hats that I have found and am enjoying.

I visited the cousins and got to see my brother covered in mud due to their ATVing. Also got to see many corvettes in a single area that wasn't a car show.

Went to a Spin in one month and saw how flax was readied to spin and got to see an angora lap goat...which my cousin now has two.

Went to a Knit in and needlefelted. Got a girl into needlefelting.

Created Impers to go to a store in Roanoke, VA.

Got to see a friend of mine's mom (whom I also consider a second mom) that I haven't seen in an age and she's looking really good.

...and that's just a little bit of what I've done all summer.