Yep, the day is young and I along with my bud Carolyn have had a most productive morning. We had breakfast at Taylors'; I had yummy French toast and she had a gorgeous looking omelet. Then we came back to my house and produced 16 more half pints of Palm Berry jelly. Then one of my children, aka former students, came by with her two sons, Charles Jr and Daniel, and her partner Charles Sr. We had a great visit and bought 15 lbs of shrimp for an awesome price. He headed them for us and then tossed in a dozen of the biggest shrimp I have seen in a long time as lunch. Meanwhile the boys toddled/crawled all over everything! Too fun to see her effortless deal with taking things away while never missing a beat of the conversation! A very relaxed, good mom who never missed a thing they did!
When they left, Carolyn and I were both still stuffed from breakfast, after we bagged and vacuum sealed the shrimp into smaller portions, we decided to freeze the "bigguns" for next week's wine and bread evening. Yesterday we decreed that at least once a week this summer we would create pizza or some sort of flat bread creation to accompany wine. We were starving yesterday and by the time lft came home from work, we were both stuffing our face with a crunchy thin crust pizza slicked with olive oil, Kalamari olives and feta cheese. Oh yum! We had kindly left him half of his very own. He cheated and added a layer of fresh mozzarella to his! The only thing that could have made it better was 60 seconds under the broiler. Oh bliss!
My couch is calling! Later.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Minor accomplishements!
Yep, my buddy Carolyn and I made 8 half pints of palm jelly, a homemade pizza and killed a wonderful bottle of wine. A good time was had by all and we even shared pizza with lft!
Believe it or not when she came over this morning, I was actually upstairs in the cave gathering up stuff to throw away! My goal is to clear an area to move two bookshelves from the upstairs guest room into the cave. I also want to buy the old fashion metal strips that you clip shelf holders into and have lft mount them on the one full height wall. Then some boards to create shelves and start moving fabric on polar notion boards into there. I want to eventually sort it by color along the wall that backs up to my sewing room. I can store bolts and 5+ yards on the book shelves and hopefully create some semblance of order. Next, after all that - yeah, I know! is to break down Gram's cherry bed and put it in the general storage area, move the queen bed upstairs into the guest room, move the day bed from the library into the downstairs guest room and (after refinishing) move the mahogany table into the library! Whew!
All in all a productive day! Oh my, I am exhausted!!
Believe it or not when she came over this morning, I was actually upstairs in the cave gathering up stuff to throw away! My goal is to clear an area to move two bookshelves from the upstairs guest room into the cave. I also want to buy the old fashion metal strips that you clip shelf holders into and have lft mount them on the one full height wall. Then some boards to create shelves and start moving fabric on polar notion boards into there. I want to eventually sort it by color along the wall that backs up to my sewing room. I can store bolts and 5+ yards on the book shelves and hopefully create some semblance of order. Next, after all that - yeah, I know! is to break down Gram's cherry bed and put it in the general storage area, move the queen bed upstairs into the guest room, move the day bed from the library into the downstairs guest room and (after refinishing) move the mahogany table into the library! Whew!
All in all a productive day! Oh my, I am exhausted!!
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Learning as I go
Okay, so I didn't really have eight visitors, d'uh, I think it was me looking at what it would look like! lol!
Of course, par for the course, I wrote down the address for the blog after trying out a lot that were already claimed and now I can't find it! oh well! Since I doubt that I ever actually put this out for folks to see, I will worry about where it is if that day ever comes!
Thus far the writing hasn't motivated me to actually accomplish anything yet. I went upstairs on Friday and did a little bit of cleaning, cut some strips using the accuquilt. I am working on cutting up stray bits of fabric into strips and putting them in a shoe box. I am thinking that eventually I will use the wire baskets that I purchased while in Ohio four or five years ago; I can sort broadly by color and then they'll be ready for some stringing.
With Brian and Wynne separating, I am feeling a mite of pressure to make Georgia and Liam's quilts. Georgia's is ready for quilting though I am still debating adding some sort of border(s). Liam is gonna be strings, I have a stack that have dark brown strings. Not enough for a quilt but definitely a nice center rectangle which is a good beginning. But of course, I absolutely gotta finish quilting Kimber's camo quilt. The problem is that I have started it and decided that I don't like what I have done. I just need to get it done, let it go and move on! I am too critical but I also know that once again basic laziness is part of the problem. I don't want to do the practice that is necessary in order to become "good" at something . . . anything! I remember the year I made sweaters for everyone! Or the year I made socks to send; I actually got really good at them though in retrospect I know of mistakes that I made. I just kept going; I need to recapture that again. Too much time on jigsaw puzzles even tho I claim it is to keep my brain active. Maybe becoming better a free motion or quilting would be just as effective and actually produce something at the same time.
That road to hell is getting well paved with my procrastinations!
Of course, par for the course, I wrote down the address for the blog after trying out a lot that were already claimed and now I can't find it! oh well! Since I doubt that I ever actually put this out for folks to see, I will worry about where it is if that day ever comes!
Thus far the writing hasn't motivated me to actually accomplish anything yet. I went upstairs on Friday and did a little bit of cleaning, cut some strips using the accuquilt. I am working on cutting up stray bits of fabric into strips and putting them in a shoe box. I am thinking that eventually I will use the wire baskets that I purchased while in Ohio four or five years ago; I can sort broadly by color and then they'll be ready for some stringing.
With Brian and Wynne separating, I am feeling a mite of pressure to make Georgia and Liam's quilts. Georgia's is ready for quilting though I am still debating adding some sort of border(s). Liam is gonna be strings, I have a stack that have dark brown strings. Not enough for a quilt but definitely a nice center rectangle which is a good beginning. But of course, I absolutely gotta finish quilting Kimber's camo quilt. The problem is that I have started it and decided that I don't like what I have done. I just need to get it done, let it go and move on! I am too critical but I also know that once again basic laziness is part of the problem. I don't want to do the practice that is necessary in order to become "good" at something . . . anything! I remember the year I made sweaters for everyone! Or the year I made socks to send; I actually got really good at them though in retrospect I know of mistakes that I made. I just kept going; I need to recapture that again. Too much time on jigsaw puzzles even tho I claim it is to keep my brain active. Maybe becoming better a free motion or quilting would be just as effective and actually produce something at the same time.
That road to hell is getting well paved with my procrastinations!
Friday, June 20, 2014
Little Crow
Just finished reading The Road Unsalted: A Novel of Carding, Vermont by Sonja Hakala. Excellent read, set in make-believe Carding, VT; one of the side stories is about a young boy who creates a blog and uses "Little Crow" as his alias. Toward the end of the story, he is shocked/thrilled to discover that nearly the entire town reads his blog as a way of keeping up with local news and politics.
When I logged in this morning, I was surprised to see that there have been EIGHT views of my page!! Why? Nothing but a few yammering sentences. Definitely puts the pressure on to create something meaningful. Hmmm, perhaps I should get off the computer and trek up stairs and see if I might actually accomplish something. Perhaps another cup of coffee would help . . .
When I logged in this morning, I was surprised to see that there have been EIGHT views of my page!! Why? Nothing but a few yammering sentences. Definitely puts the pressure on to create something meaningful. Hmmm, perhaps I should get off the computer and trek up stairs and see if I might actually accomplish something. Perhaps another cup of coffee would help . . .
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
OMG!! No idea at all what I am doing but I have been searching for my motivation since I retired. The basic problem is that I am incredibly lazy! I lay in bed at night, I make copious mental notes of work that I need to accomplish. Any time I am out and about waiting, I grab a pen and paper and start making lists. I love, love lists. Unfortunately that is as far as they go.
In any case, I got a wild hair that if I had a blog where I had to report my progress or in my particular case, my lack of progress perhaps I might actually accomplish something. . . anything!
In any case, I got a wild hair that if I had a blog where I had to report my progress or in my particular case, my lack of progress perhaps I might actually accomplish something. . . anything!
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