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 Was asked the other day if I could crochet a friend a doily.  Well, I crochet all the time but usually use yarn.  Been many years since I used size 10 thread.  So I found a pattern and started to crochet.  Had this mint green yarn in my stash of craft items in the basement craft room.  So mint green it will be.  This is the pineapple stitch doily.  After about 5 minutes I was off and going.  The hardest part for me is seeing the tiny stitches and always having to count. e  Well then I remembered I had to block it after getting it done so I googled it to see what was best.  The one most people said was to use elmers glue and water half and half.  So I proceeded to block this one.  And now I regret it so will have to wash and start all over.  Yes the glue stiffened it but to much.  It will not fold down on the table just lays there and stiff.  So did more research and found to use just water ...

 We moved into our home about 15 years ago at that time we decided to place a walkway down through the yard to a firepit.  Our family loves to sit around the backyard fire and roast hotdogs and marshmallows.  We haven't done much to the walkway except spray it once in a while with weed kill but today we decided it was time to remove and repair.  So we began to dig out the bricks..it was amazing how some were buried and some were broken.  They all were beginning to sink down deeper and deeper. There was a lot of moss that had even grown over the top of them.  But hubby and I worked together and got them all dug up.  The pathway went from the deck to the firepit ring.  All of these bricks have been recycled we would watch for free ones.  Sometimes just driving down the road there would be bricks with a sign take all you want.  So some of these bricks have different says on them.  We also enjoy using our dutch ovens....