"Adventuring With My Spidie"

" Hello My Grandkids!

You wanted me to show the stuff inside all my chests, but it's too much, and some was just for me and not to be read etc.

So, today I'm going to tell you a little story instead! "

                         

                      Adventuring With My Spidie

As Spidie and I were out adventuring, we came to a dark opening in a large rock at the base of a mountain. "Oooh... that looks spooky",  I said, as I looked down at Spidie.  He chirped and squiggled a bit to let me know that he was ready for anything! As always! I had to laugh at him!

We walked into the dark opening and followed a short, dimly lit passage. It soon opened into a small cave which was covered with sparkling, tiny, blue lights. They looked like jewels imbedded in the rock!!  I took out my pick axe and tried to chip out some of them.. but weirdly I could not!  I looked around.  Maybe it was a  magical place?  I heard Spidie's clicking little feet on the stone and gravily floor as he was looking around at stuff.

I walked over to him, "What did you find Spidie?" I asked.  He was standing before a table and trying to see what was on it. He would look up at me and click-clack and then look back at the table.  So I picked him up and we both looked at the treasure.  And it was treasure!  There were several golden coins dropped casually onto the table,  a small, guttering candle and an old looking chest. It was dirty, with a few cobwebs attached and one hinge on the lid practically falling off! When I opened it, inside was a skull!  It had a small knife still sticking into it's eye socket!!  Spidie squealed and jumped out of my arms and ran, clacking, to the other side of the cavern!! To my chagrin I wasn't far behind him!!

We looked at each other , then hurried on to an opening into another, cramped passage. We then entered a small room which we both could hardly get into! The only think in the room was a large chest. "Well Spidie,  maybe this one has some REAL treasure in it! Spidie made a quick clicking which I didn't know if it was,   'open it!'  or 'let's leave!'!! But I felt like this might be something good!!

I carefully lifted the lid which thankfully wasn't locked, and was immediately hit by spears coming out of the doorway!! Thank goodness Spidie was down on the floor! I wasn't hurt as I had on full armor, thank goodness, but it had knocked me to the floor.  Spidie and I looked each other in the eyes, and I said, "This is going to be good,  I just know it!!"  We both looked at the chest,  and I hauled myself up and we walked over to it, his little feet clicking and clacking.

He stood up on his back legs and gripped the edge and I did the same.  We peered inside and there was enough gold and jewels to buy anything we ever could want!! We looked at each other and I gasped while he chirped! I think we were both a little giddy!!  Spidie helped me find some old leather bags and I scooped up all that I could carry.  "Let's get out of here Spidie.  I will buy us a nice home, cool clothes... Spidie squeeked in astonishment.. "well, clothes for me," I laughed.

There was a door out of that room that took us back outside. We left with our treasure and headed for our new life, with me singing and Spidie chirping and dancing!!

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"Hope you enjoyed this grandkids!!   It was fun writing it....

         and Spidie and I will see you...

                                 LATER! :)

Didn't Forget To Come Back!!

 Well good morning everyone!

I am still not feeling well,  I guess this is going to go on forever,  with me and my family!!  I think I'm going to quit mentioning it and let everyone pretend, with me, that I'm okay!!  lol

The main thing that I wanted to show you is all my chests people have sent to me. This morning I rearranged them all on two shelves in a bookcase and I think it looks good.   Enjoy!!  If anyone sends me more,  that would be cool!!  LOL  All of them have something or other inside.

Today I think I'm having the desire to make a proper video (instead of just my vlogs I've been making since I've been sick).  I shall make another book reading by my old, retired Dragonborn.. The Monk.  I will look in his library and find a book for him to read.  That will be uploaded to it's usual place on Monday morning.

Yesterday I also finished writing another chapter in my book about my young Wizard,  Dorkly. I will read that today in a video and upload it for it's usual spot on Friday morning.   I am enjoying writing this book so  much!  I never realized it could be such fun,  but what makes that?... reading it to all you viewers and getting comments back!!!  Thank you so much!!

Here is a 'book' I wrote based on my The Listener game I played in Skyrim sometime back. I don't know why I called it in my Playlist  "A Work In Progress, The Listener".  It's totally finished!! lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAxBnXMqzc&list=PLQ_2e-z-Z9hbvAaOTwJztvt_-R3eBjjx4

Actually,  I am already working on another one!!  I read a little bit of what I had written,  on my YT channel,   just to give everyone a little 'taste' of what it will be about, and you seemed to like it!   It's going to be called,  "The Forest Phantom".  

This is the name on the video in which I read this:    "Vlog#56 Would You Like This For My Next 'Story"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gV1sNqWfVw

Well,  enough about books and my writing!!!!  You seem to want to look at my bookshelves so here is another shelf...

Yah!!

         You didn't have to listen to...

                          COUGHING!!  LOL  LOL

Once Again I Try the Vlog!! LOL

 Well good morning everyone! I hope I will keep at this better than the last one or two times I've tried.  I'm going to see how many people read what I said about doing this, and come here, and leave a comment.

I wanted to tell you guys,  that I have found that I don't really enjoy the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim.  Another reason which made me decide just to simply QUIT playing it until ES6  EVER comes out.

Enough about that.  I will be moving over into the "In-Law apartment that is attached to my son's house, I guess by the end of the year.  During this time I might start gradually packing stuff,  here and there,  so it won't be so hard for me later on. I might start with packing all my wonderful little goodies that my wonderful viewers sent me,  that are filling up my two bookshelves.

On to other things.  Today I will probably need to do some cooking, before what food I have in the frig goes bad.  I cook up stuff, put it in several small containers and put it all in the freezer.  I have been too sick with this cold to eat hardly anything and too sick to stand up and cook!  So now that I'm starting to feel like I'm on the mend,  I'd better be working on various things like that.

Oh, something to show you.  I don't know if I have shown this on my YouTube channel or not,  like in a vlog where I usually show gifts, 'cause I bought this bad boy for myself!! I wish I had bought two so I could use them as bookends... which is what it is.

Well.. since this is the start of something 'on going', I believe  I've rambled enough for now,  so I will see you all later...  I PROMISE  (If not then you can all get on me!!)  LOL

Bye..   See 'ya!!...

Bits and Pieces, About Quilting

 I've been thinking about my quilting days. Instead of aging with things I do, like, taking up quilting as I kept getting older,  I've been doing things backwards! lol

What I mean by that is this.. We older people seem to take up quilting in our Senior years while thinking back to what we used to do before quilting.  I, on the other hand,  was quilting long ago but stopped when I started playing with computers and then started gaming.  Now I think back to when I  'used' to quilt!!

Of course, when I started out on a computer I was just chatting with a few friends and once in awhile posting a picture or two. I was playing games privately but people kept at me to record my games until I finally gave in,  and the rest is history there. I had laid my quilting aside and haven't quilted since! 

I thought that as I aged I'd pick the quilting up again, but it seems like that's not going to happen!! So in this short Blog I'll look back upon my quilting days.

I have kept two or three quilts of mine for my own bed, but all my grandkids got a quilt and all my sons,  I think.

Here's two I kept:

I also had a quilt left to me by my grandmother which she hand quilted back in the 30's (I was born in "36) and she gave it to my mother to keep for me about that time.  So, it eventually got really old. As it aged it started coming apart as the threads 'rotted'. I had passed on that quilt to one of my daughter-in-laws before that started to happen. So she cut it into the best kept squares and framed them. She wrote information about the quilt and attached that on the back of each frame. I had given her a package of old, old needles and an old, old spool of thread.  She threaded the needles and made a stitch on each square, sort of letting the thread swirl down a couple of inches. She then kept one, gave each of my other sons one, and gave me one.  Now they all have something from their great-grandma.  If I ever find a picture of that I might show it to you later on.

I started designing my own quilts after the first one or two which I made. It was more fun to dream up my own. By the time I quit quilting I had drawn up a lot of squares for lots of quilts that I wanted to make,  and had made some of the squares. When I started on my computer I gave all of those quilts and squares away for anyone who wanted to make a quilt with them, or an art piece for a wall.  Actually I took all that to a quilting craft show and left them with all the stuff people could take or buy!  They were all snapped up!!  Here are just a few of the tops and squares I took there:

   

 

       

              

   I taught one of my granddaughters how to quilt and she designed her own and finished it and put it on her bed.  I was shocked because she was only about 12 or 14 and I showed her very little! She just "took off" with it! Like she had already known how!  lol

         

Introduction AND Books

 Hi everyone!!  It has been forever since I posted anything in here!  I don't even know if this is still a viable place!!  Am I really here?!  I guess I'll find out at the end of this.

I really want to start Blogging again but it is so much more complicated to start a Blog anymore than it use to be,  way back!  I had two or three over the years then and it was so easy to make them...  of course, I never remembered to go post in them!! LOL  

I will publish this and put a link to it under my You Tube videos where I have other links ...  which no one ever looks at ... and see what happens!  LOL

If anyone does look at this and comments about it I shall continue.  If people just say  'Hi'  or stuff like that I'll just be deleting it.   I want to 'talk' to my followers from YT,  is what I have in mind! The ones who actually follow my videos.  Not the 'lookers' lol  Is that a word?

Well,  before I really start using this again I shall see what happens to it first.  It's so old I don't know if it's even working!!  LOL

I'll check this later and see what's going to happen.

Bye for now,

Grandma Shirley  

The Majestic Dragon

  Ambling through one of the snow capped mountain ranges that border Skyrim, I was feeling the cold seeping through my fur lined armor.  I was looking for a shelter, like hollow or rock crevice,  where I could just hunker down for awhile to warm up.  I finally found a reasonable shelter from at least the biting wind among several, tightly grouped, pine trees.

  I was sitting there gazing out over the beautiful land sloping down and away from me;  the snow eventually blending into the golden hues of the winter's dying growth of grasses, then farther down-slope the greens, reds and purples where the grass and flowers still felt the warmth of the sun.  My eyes were following the mincing steps of a buck as he grazed,  lifting his head once in awhile to sniff the air and listen for any sounds of danger nearby. He bore a magnificent, heavy rack of antlers. Beautiful creature.

  Suddenly his head snapped up at the same time that I heard a mighty roaring coming with the wind from up-mountain!  A bear?  No, totally different sound. I jumped up, moving out of the shelter of the pines and saw a huge, flying creature as it soared through the air down the mountain slope.  It was a dragon, of course.  I watched as it fixed it's attention on the buck.  No, I breathed out quietly, don't kill it.   I had my bow,  and a few arrows with me,  and a sword.  If I had to I would intervene,  maybe I could distract it.  I piked up some large rocks,  and started throwing them as the dragon cruised by me only a few yards away. The buck was startled enough to go bounding away down into the meadow,  just as the dragon let go with a fiery blast from it's open mouth! 

  I was thankful that the buck got away but now the dragon's attention was focused on me!!  It could be angry or hungry!  It wheeled  majestically and came my way;  I ran for the trees.  I neither wanted to feel the brunt of it's anger,  or be its lunch! I watched from the shelter of the pines. To me dragons's are a thing of beauty, same as the buck, or any other wild animal. Some could be dangerous no doubt and sometimes you would have to kill them, in self defense or to protect others, but I'd never kill such beauty for sport! I realized I was whispering...'please, please just go on your way.'

  This particular dragon was a dusty gray with a slight golden cast to it's scales,  blending to a red around it's eyes and down the front of it's throat. It's tail was tipped as with three spears. A deadly weapon if it swung and connected with you!  The sun was shining on it just right, in a way that made it gleam even more golden.   I gloried in it's beauty but worried about it's intent!!

  It swept past the pines,  knowing where I was hiding, and blew out another fiery blast directed at the very spot in which I was hiding.  Ouch! It caught me a good one,  and I felt the burning fire! I dropped to the ground and rolled, slapping at any exposed flesh.  Hot!  Hot!  I watched as he circled around, ready for another run at me. I ran for some rocks and scrambled deep among them.

  He knew where I was.  His next pass was as accurate as the previous one, and the fiery blast caught me again.  I wasn't going to last long at this rate,  and he wasn't going away.  I didn't want to kill it, but I didn't want to be cooked, either!! Hating what I was having to do, I nevertheless drew my bow and nocked an arrow,  aiming at it's throat.  The arrow zinged on it's way and hit it's mark. The dragon wheeled away,  probably more stunned by my nerve,  than hurt.  He came in for the kill again. I had changed position and he hadn't corrected for that, and my arrow caught him in the chest, directly in the heart.

  When a dragon is mortally wounded they raise their necks high, as if gasping for the last bit of air they can catch, and then collapsing onto the ground with a resounding crash, dirt spraying up around them...then the silence....the quiet...even the birds have stilled.  I slowly walked toward him, making sure that he wasn't moving.

  As I drew close to him,  I did not feel a triumph of conquering;  I did not feel pride.  I felt sorrow and sadness.  I reached out an touched him, trying to feel a connection with his departing spirit. I dropped my head and grieved;  a tear falling free.

  Did he have a mate back at his cairn, watching for his return?  Did he have young, waiting...waiting...

                                   I grieved....would you?