Fixing the hose - with a little help

Saturday

I got up at 8, having gotten to bed very late last night. I also had to get up in the middle of the night to take some salt. I went out to water the plants and sprinkle parts of the lawn. It took over an hour. I wrapped some tape around the old sprinkler to hold it together.

I took the cut end of the main hose and put a male end on it. However, I was not strong enough to put the female end on the remaining part of the hose. So I took it and my lawn mower's string attachment and went to Self Help. The man there fixed it up for me. He also showed me how to take the trimmer attachment apart and put new string in it.

When I got home, Chris was busy at the computer. I altered a linen top that I found at the swap shop. I ate fiber gel. I took a shower. I whipped up a batch of seed crackers using thawed eggs since I didn't have any fresh ones. I made and ate breakfast.

I laid outside and read in the sun. I cleaned up my sewing room a little. I could not find something. I made hooks from a roll of wire and hung a thread rack on the door. I used the fixed hose to run the old sprinkler head. It leaked at the mending point so I laid it in the sun to warm up so I could take another whack at it.

I read e-mail and watched some interviews. I ate more fiber gel. I went out to check the hose but it wouldn't slide on any farther. I sorted through the bag of paints and craft stuff that Shannon brought over. There were acrylic paints, water paints, pencils, short markers, glue and packets of little colored dots. I put the acrylic paints and little colored dots in a bag.

I heated up some pork for supper. I also ate one third of a cucumber. I grabbed Jamie's bags of fabric and headed out. I went to the chapel to unlock it for Project Night. The Fellowship hall key was missing so I had to use the front door key for both.

At first I was alone, but then Anca came with her dress, followed by Janet, then Michele and John, and finally Jenni. We all dug in to our projects. I laid out fabric to cut a circle skirt.

While we were working, Ria arrived with her son. She is the wife of the new colonel (yet to take command). She chatted with us while we worked. Janet had to leave early. I showed Anca how to quarter her bodice and skirt and sew them together. And she did. It looked better than I thought it would. Michele and John kept working. Jenni wrapped up her diamond art kit. She identified those packets of dots as diamond art so I gave them to her.

At nine, I started packing up. The others helped, then left. I locked up and went home. Chris was on his computer. I made tea and we watched one episode of Longmire. Then I sat down to work on my blog. I went to bed after that.