One And A Half

I've got most of one and a half leaves done now.  I'm keeping with stitching them according to my "mistake."  The instructions call for doing all these leaves around before tackling any other part, but I don't know that I have that much patience.

More Background

I feel like I'm not doing anything interesting on this.  It's just more and more background.  At least this time it was a little tree trunk, too, but still.  Maybe this is why I originally stopped at this point - no interesting stitching happening.

Watches

My watch died here in Angola.  It was the battery, nothing serious.  But when you don't know the language and it's an expensive country and there's a resale market ....why not buy a new watch, sell the old one, and let the battery be someone else's problem?  That's exactly what Andreas did.  Except, instead of buying one replacement watch, he's bought three.  So far.

Sunflowering

This is currently my daily stitch.  It's coming along, although I've begun to notice a lack of registration on the printing.

Barbecue!

Oliver, one of my colleagues in consular, went home for holiday last month.  When he returned, he brought us all barbecue rub.  Yay!  Thank you Oliver!

Pinkeeped

I finished the stitching on the pinkeep!  Time to put it away for a bit before making it into an ornament.  I think it came out pretty well.

Surprised

Sometimes I'm surprised by progress.  This is one of those times.  I suddenly completed several rows at one go.  It feels good to see so much real geography stitched.