Category Archive: Life

We all have them and at the end of the day, nearly all we have accomplished is to answer those interrupts.   That’s how it has been here today.

There were a few questions during more tiling, a long Drs. call,  checking on prescription order and checking on the hay order.   A package received wasn’t quite right.   The raspberries needed picking again.  And  did I mention that somewhere in between, the fitbit demands all those steps be taken.

However I did get 6 quarts of beans cooked and ready to can.   There are 25 of these pillowcases now at the pinned burrito stage.  I ran out of pins and it was time to feed the animals their evening meal.   It is finally cool enough to start the pressure cooker so I’m headed off to turn on heat.

Have you ever run out of yarn when making socks?    This is the first time for me.   However since they are for me, and the end of this yarn is near the toes, I’ll look for something that goes with this yarn and have a unique pair.    Who will be taking off my shoes to look, anyhow?

The bathroom saga goes on.   Half days of work make a job seem to take forever.    We are now at the point where the tub surround and front of the tub are done, except for the grout.    Tomorrow he will start work on the rest of the room, which will go up 4′.    The trouble with tile is one only gets to see one tile at the store.   We picked out a very light tile with a tad of brown running through it.   But when it came, there was a lot of brown, so the towels, bath rug etc, that we purchased will probably be returned and we will get white to brighten up the area.   I will wait until he is finished (another 2 weeks?) to make that decision.

The upper photo is a more accurate color photo

Our daughter called and said she’d be in town at noon, would we like to meet her at the Mexican restaurant.     The following plates were served – looks good, doesn’t it?    It was very good.

The store had called and said my serger was ready to come home, so we went to get it and return their loaner.     A haircut for Dh, a stop at the library, some watermelon and cantaloupe at the grocery store and the afternoon was spent.   I did get a bit of time in the greenhouse, but it needs to see more of me.   It really was requesting water.

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Today was full and yet I feel as if I didn’t get anything done.. I got up at 4 and did some knitting, but the weather has been warm enough I wanted to get an early start outside. So I read urgent email, put in a load of laundry, then went out to the greenhouse, where I picked another 2 gallons of tomatoes and the same size bucket of greens. There were even a couple cucumbers ready. I brought those in and washed them as the potatoes boiled. We had fried potatoes with onions, broccoli and tomatoes for breakfast.

I washed up the tomatoes and set about 1/2 of them aside and peeled and am cooking the rest of them along with Sunday’s pickings for pasta sauce. I’d really like to get several quarts canned for the winter.

We ate breakfast and cleaned up, then I went out to water the greenhouse. It was now time to pull weeds from the entrance to the house. The ground is so dry, I don’t understand how anything grows, but there is a very persistent water iris that we thought we had completely taken out. So in the morning I will soak the front really good and then try to tackle the water iris new shoots.

Then I went to the strawberry patch to try getting weeds out of there. I hired a teen boy yesterday and the prior day, but apparently he doesn’t quite understand work. He did plant another bed of strawberries and put straw down. For the amount of time spent – enough said. I need to get the weeds out and put straw between the existing plants. And clean the aisle he said didn’t have any weeds left, then redistribute the straw.

At noon we took off for Bellevue (3 hour round trip) to the Blind Alley to find some blinds for our bedroom. They had a very good selection. However, we have not yet made up our minds.

Back home we came and I had many steps still to do for my Fitbit, so spent an hour doing that, made dinner, turned the sprinkler on the strawberries as I would like the weeds to actually come out of the ground easily.

I’ve been thinking what to do for the blog. So after dinner, I came to the sewing studio to make a Block for one of the BOMs that I am doing. I made 24 flying geese blocks to show you that is the first part of this block and GUESS WHAT! After they are nicely done, I see that the colors are reversed. Tomorrow I plan to make them reversed of what you see here.

It feels as if I have been going all day, with nothing to show for it. Tomorrow must be better.

The animals are fed and bedded down, so off to do the last half hour of walking and then to bed.