No cross stitch

I just have not been doing cross stitch for a while.  I took a break and did some embroidery for the girls.  At the left is the pillowcase I did for Rebekah.  It has been so long since I did regular embroidery it was a nice break and change of pace.  A getting back to my roots in a way as my Grandma taught me to embroider when I was small.  Took me for ever to get the concept of going down on one side and coming back up through the material, not going around the hoop and going back down, lol.  I have started stitching on  Victoria Sampler's "Butterfly Garden Sampler" and I hope to take a picture and post it when I have more than just 50 or so stitches done. 

The weather has been ok lately, but no sun.  this is the first time the sun has been hidden for the past week or so, but it finally made an appearance today.  Looks like we are going to get one more small blast of wintery weather this weekend.  I am hoping it doesn't damage my iris.  It would be nice to have some blooms this year. 

I have become addicted to facebook and the games.  That is the biggest reason I have been neglecting this lately.  I am going to schedule time to update and keep updated on this.  I have some friends on here I shouldn't let slip by, just because I spend too much time with Mafia Wars, lol.

There is not much else new going on here.  Just the same ol' same ol'.  I don't think I ever posted about Lefty.  He is our newest cat.  Yes, like we needed another.  We found this starving, flea-ridden, wormy little kitten in my in-laws entry way and I couldn't let my FIL take it to the local vet who handles the animal control.  He would have just put him down.  So I brought him home, de wormed him, de flea-ed him and fattened him up.  He is probably close to a year old now and getting better about sharing food.  He is a sweetie.  We called him Lefty as a joke.  He looks alot like CG, just not as fluffy.  I made the comment that it would be great to have gloves with fur like his in the.  Greg said he was going to make gloves out of CG and the new cat, CG would be the right hand and kitten would be the left, so he is now named Lefty.  He seems to be settling in pretty well, don' t you think?