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Hi friends! How was your weekend? Mine was great! I had chocolate birthday cake AND strawberry cheesecake yesterday at my mom's.🎂 😊Tomorrow I turn 48!

I would like to offer this large Adam and Eve Reproduction Sampler chart by Robin Laukhuf as a giveaway for all of my follower friends.

This is a chart that is ripped out of an old Cross Stitch and Needlework magazine. I will be folding the four pages so they fit into a business size envelope to save on postage. You must be a follower of mine and you must leave a comment on this post telling me you want to be entered into the giveaway. This giveaway is open to any one of my followers anywhere. I will draw the name of the winner on June 19th.

Agent M: The Lives and Spies of M15's Maxwell Knight by Henry Hemming is the book I finished last week.  It was not what I expected. While I found his life story interesting, I was hoping for more stories of the spies and their missions. I am not going to lie. I ended up skimming a lot of the information after I got halfway through reading the book.

Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive and nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla), he is seen today as one of MI5's greatest spymasters, a man who did more than any other to break up British fascism during the Second World War -- in spite of having once belonged to the British Fascisti himself. He was known to his agents and colleagues simply as M, and is rumored to be the inspiration for the character in the James Bond series.

Knight became a legendary spymaster despite an almost total lack of qualifications. What set him apart from his peers was a mercurial ability to transform almost anyone into a fearless secret agent. He was the first in MI5 to grasp the potential of training female agents.

Agent M is about more than just one man however. In its pages, Hemming will reveal for the first time in print the names and stories of some of the men and women recruited by Knight, on behalf of MI5, and then asked to infiltrate the most dangerous political organizations in Britain at that time. Until now, their identities have been kept secret outside MI5. Drawn from every walk of life, they led double lives -- often at great personal cost -- in order to protect the country they loved. With the publication of this book, it will be possible at last to celebrate the lives of these courageous and selfless individuals.

Drawing on declassified documents, private family archives, and original interviews, Agent M reveals not just the shadowy world of espionage but a brilliant, enigmatic man at its shadowy center.

When ALL hormonal headaches have past and are out of me, my headaches go way down. THEN on those days I am able to go out into the garden in the evenings.

I will have an updated Pink Hill Manor picture for you next time. I am trying to finish it. I am sure I will since I will be inside this week. It is hot and sunny here lately, so I must hide inside to avoid headaches.

Have a wonderful weekend my friends. Thank you for stopping by!

Stitching and praying,
Vickie