I emptied the dishwasher last night.
It seems to be a point of entry for roaches and I did not want them
climbing all over my clean dishes. Then I took a dark shower. But
it wasn't that dark because I hadn't closed the blinds. I toweled my
hair dry and went to bed. When I woke up, I had big hair. Shoulda
seen that comin'.
I stayed in bed late. Maybe my body
is already on the new time. Or it was because my room is colder than
the rest of the house, as it is situated over the garage. When I did
get up, I sat in the bathroom wondering if the extra vitamin C I
took yesterday was too much. I put away what was in the dish drainer,
and turned on the router and laptop. I exercised, read e-mail,
listening to an audio. I juiced, and cleaned up the old photos lying
on the dining room table. I finished the audio. I planted some
carrot tops from the carrots I juiced INSIDE the house since in the
past something eats them just as they start to grow. Paige called to
say she wasn't coming, and a few other things. I took the backpack
out to Chris' car where I got it and noticed that my rear tire looked
flat. I e-mailed Chris to ask what to do, and he wrote back to find
an air compressor in his trunk. I did, reading the directions, that
it needed 15 amp circuit. His manual did not tell me the amp on the
power connector but did tell me where to find the fuse and that
turned out to be 20 amp. So then I was ready to go, but could not
find the hose that connects to the tire. It had to be in what looked
like a battery compartment, but I could not open it. So I took it
next door and Craig opened it for me. Then he and I got in a
conversation (which eventually turned to raising chickens) when a man
driving by asked if he could grind a stump in Craig's yard. I
watched at first to see what a stump grinder does, and then I went
home to warm up and try the compressor. It took 6 minutes, but it
did the job. I took a towel and wiped out some water that got in the
tent. If I cannot make it watertight, I will have to take it down.
I thought about sleeping on a pallet so the little bit of water
wouldn't touch the bedding, but I don't know how much trouble it
would be to build one. I tried to print the local chicken regs for
Craig, but my desktop browsers kept crashing. I took the beef heart
out of the fridge. I ate some and put the rest back packed into
smaller containers. I went to the garage to lay out the backing and
the quilt top. I taped the backing to the large cutting mat on the
pingpong table. I found a remnant of batting that fit well. I laid
all the layers out, then spray basted them together, lining the area
with boxes to catch the overspray. Then I handbasted around the
perimeter. I pinned along the first few lines I planned to quilt. I
took that to my machine and stitched in the ditch. Then I pinned a
few more lines and stitched again. Finally I had to free-motion or
quilt around motifs. Either way required the fq foot. But I could
not find it in with all my other feet. Then it occurred to me that I
may have taken it to one of the sewing days, so I looked in that box,
and there it was. I attached it to the machine, along with my
homemade extension table. While looking for my extension table, I
saw the washing machine and remembered that Saturdays are laundry
day. So I put all laundry in one load, then ate blueberries w/ dark
chocolate for supper. I went back down to quilt around motifs in the
middle and in the corners. I changed the thread to blue to meander
down the sides. When I moved on to other motifs, the blue thread
kept breaking, so I had to go back to white. Odd. As I quilted, I
listened to an audio on petitioning one's angels, and I moved the wet
laundry to the dryer, and pulled stuff out at intervals as it dried.
At some point I had enough of quilting and decided to cut strips to
make binding. I sewed the binding to the back so I could
machine-stitch the other edge to the front. I was doing that with red
thread when Chris skyped me. He had finished his game which included
Michele, so they were both ready to talk to me. Michele appeared on
my screen with her Snake Pliskin wig and eye patch. I took her pic
with skype, but I don't know how to find it on the computer to post
it. I had to hang up at 11:30. I know it is the new 10:30, but my
body wants to go to bed.
* This is the completed altar cloth that I thought was going to hang tomorrow *
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