Fiercely Independent Pam

Tag: Thinking back! don’t burn bridges

  • Home, Missing A Lot of Items But SO Much More Room and a Calendar That Created Chaos!

    Well, I haven’t written blog post in a few days so I have some things to catch you up on. My sisters decided to make a visit and drove down to Myrtle Beach from New York. (Sisters are the best)They spent their vacation cleaning out my apartment and fixing the M&M Calendar that I bought and became a disaster. The calendar is super heavy and fell off the wall where my brothers placed it- causing what I called carnage(almost all the pieces had to be reglued and/or repaired.) My sister Lisa took on this challenge

    Eventually Lisa figured out that the calendar should be placed table top and not on the wall so it was placed there and set up on my small table.

    Besides rearranging what was on the table top and wall around the new calendar, everything looks amazing and I get to look at the awesome calendar from my arm chair.

    Other than cleaning and getting rid of TONS of belongings (that I truly do not need), They helped me organize my side table so I can reach everything. We returned a lot of things, as well as donated some things.

    Now the biggest thing is making sure I get the therapy I need (PT/OT to practice standing. Its still a scary thing, but I can’t do thing if I can’t stand on demand.

  • The Legacy of An Amazing Grandmother- Francis! She Was Always A Guiding Light!

    So I am trying my hand at Crocheting again- trying a Woobles kit. This time it is Grumpy bear! It’s not the easiest but keeps me doing something. I still have quite the vision of my grandmother ripping stitches out of my crocheting when I was a young girl. She was kinda fearless and made so many great creations including my favorite tree skirt that I thought I lost. She also created a lot of special afghan blankets for everyone- Liked to call them “Nanny Blankets.” They were warm and cozy for anyone to use.

    The legacy of my grandmother is big! She like I said was a force of nature and always just knew where things belonged even if she didn’t see them for a while. It never ceases to amaze that she knew exactly where things were in the upstairs bedroom even if she wasn’t there for many years.

    My Grandmother, Francis, was always getting us to buy yarn so that she could crochet, at the time it wasn’t too expensive so it kept her busy, but now it would be a very expensive hobby. I remember that I brought one of her blankets to Russia to give as a gift to my host family. I wish I had a picture of one of her blankets/afghans to demonstrate her fine detail work.