{"id":1816,"date":"2019-03-15T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2019-03-18T13:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:18:27","slug":"a-slow-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"A Slow Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am having a slow start to the month of March. I feel like February was a blitz of stitching and posting and March well, maybe I’m a little burnt out! Plus it is Lent and I do attempt to reduce my screen time and my indulgent hobby time in favor of more reflective and penitential activities. But I realize maybe some of you wonder where I have been and that’s part of it.<\/p>\n

Also we were on Spring Break this week. We drove north to Flagstaff, Arizona, and to “Bearizona” which is a drive through wildlife park featuring, of course, black bears.<\/p>\n

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We saw their birds of prey show which was quite interesting and included this captive raised Great Horned Owl named George.<\/p>\n

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George is deaf so he is an exceptionally loud owl.<\/p>\n

We continued our drive to the Hoover Dam and Las Vegas. I have never been! It is hard to convey how enormous it is in a picture.<\/p>\n

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Then we trekked over to Carlsbad, CA to Legoland for the kids and that is always a great time. This is a lifesize elephant of Legos!<\/p>\n

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Overall that made about 20 hours in the car. Unfortunately I am not too good at stitching in the car because I get motion sick but I was able to get about half of my ornament done for the Ornies SAL. This is “A Star, A Star” by The Sunflower Seed from JCS 2008. I love this carol (Do You Hear What I Hear) and enjoy having the refrain reverberate around in my head while I’m stitching it. This is one of those projects I have planned to do for a LONG time so I’m really glad to have an excuse.<\/p>\n

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This weekend I’ll try to get to my other SAL projects and posts so expect a blitz next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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