Michael
and Cookie went for a walk Tuesday morning (9/26) while I got my blog out and
had a nice conversation with BG. We are
TWO WEEKS AWAY from the Fiber Floozie Retreat….WHOO HOO!!!!! Once he was home, I’m sure you can guess what
Michael did:
breakfast on the lanair |
he wanted a close up of his breakfast |
You know it’s funny, I got
to see Beth yesterday at Cooking Fingers…I haven’t seen her in forever because
I haven’t been going to Stitch & Chat…I don’t get to see Carolyn or Nancy A
or Barb W (we DID get to talk after Cooking Fingers…YAY) or Joanne either :~(…
and we were talking about our lives and how we do the same things every
day. I mentioned that sometimes it is
really hard to write my Christmas newsletter because we do the same things over
and over again…which I’m sure sounds really boring to read to most people. BUT, we also talked about how we love our
lives because we are retired and are lucky enough to get to do what we truly
LOVE over and over again every day :~).
Michael and I still marvel over the fact that this is our life now…and how
terrific it is.
After
breakfast, Michael picked some late blooming cherry tomatoes
and more
zinnias:
so I now have a bunch in my
sewing room and he walked the yellow bunch down to our neighbors Evelyn &
Phil. We also had another beautiful rose coming out:
which he picked and surprised me with in my studio :~). He also spent a sweaty hour
working on our big blue pot in the front.
Those canna lilies totally re-seeded themselves and took over….so he
went from this:
to this:
We still couldn’t get one big root system out
(that root was at least 1-1/2 inches in diameter and we kept hacking away at
it, but it was too hard to crack), so we’re going to try to cover the pot and
hope that things rot over the winter so that it can be replanted. What with one thing and another, I didn’t get
downstairs until the early afternoon when Paula stopped by for a few hints on
adding her border and also to buy a bit of fabric for her next Valor quilt. After that I got Sandy F’s second quilt all
loaded and basted:
and started working on the program for quilting. That took me over an hour as I couldn’t get
the density to be what I wanted, but finally it was done and I wound my bobbins
and started stitching out:
Michael and I
have both been having some issues with our computers, so he set up an
appointment with Matt (computer fixer extraordinaire) and decided to clean off
his desk before Matt came.
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Of course...it was my idea.....but my desk is still a disaster ~sigh~. Maybe this is finally the year I make a resolution about my desk....we'll see.
I made a
chicken sausage/tomato/spinach stir fry for dinner, after which I continued to
quilt for a bit and got a third of the way done on Sandy’s quilt.
Great job on the clean desk ! Is he available for hire ??!! MJ in CT
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