Friday again, already! Life seems to be snowballing! the weeks and months are just flying by. We were drenched yesterday. Lotta rain. LOTTA rain. It was a nice day to have a massage - and he had the table heated.
Then I made a chicken, rice, celery, onion, carrot, pea, tiny pasta, white bean soup. And it turned out delish! Just what Bill needed on this dreary day and after his dental work. I spent the afternoon in my sewing room playing with the tote of strips I've collected over the years. I have one top about 2/3 finished and I sorted the remaining strips. I think I have enough strips for another 3 quilts! Anyone needs some? I used TV time to sort them all into piles of different lengths. It's still wet today so I guess I'll be finishing that top and then set the strips aside and get busy on my Buckeye Beauty.We have a family with five young kids Boondocking with us. They are from Isreal and on 6-month tour of the U.S. Such an awesome family. The kids range from about 4-12. They all speak 3 languages fluently and without accent. Mom is a nurse and Dad is retired diplomat. Sure wish the weather had been nicer so the kids could run and play. They were excited because they were having (real) macaroni and cheese for supper. They said they don't have that in Isreal. One little boy about 9 yrs old asked what breed Scottie is. I told him sheltie - from Scotland. And immediately I could see his brain click and he smiled big and said, "that's why you call him Scottie!". Most people don't put his name together with his breed. These are SMART kids!
LORI - your quilt is really stunning. I think it's the simplicity and the meaning of it that makes it so eye-catching. Congrats on washing a window. I thought about it. I really did. My problem is we have heavy furniture in front of almost every single window and I can't move the furniture. And I'm so short I can't reach over it. But one day . . . . I'll get a gang together and we'll do it. The gang, of course, will consist of me, Bill (hopefully), Scottie, and Foxtrot.
JANA - how is Crenda feeling? Good to hear Matt is working from home.
BECCA - Even natural landscaping needs upkeeping. I have streamlined the yard quite a bit, but have to pull all the briars and salmon berries that still keep trying to take over the yard. Plus, I have about 100 sword ferns that have 2 years of old brown fronds on them. That's mostly what I'm working on now. If Bill weed whacks them by February, it's easy, but he never did it and now the fiddleheads are up and each old brown frond has to be carefully snipped out. It's tedious, but I "read" my audio books while I'm working and it makes it all go more easily. I only do the ferns that are close to the house, but it's still a lot. Plus with all the small storms we keep having, twigs, cones, etc keep falling into my nice clean flowerbeds.
VELDA- you know, I often wonder who decided that things like dandelions and purple vetch were weeds. Why can't we call them flowers and save ourselves a lot of work?
CAROL - how did yesterday go? At least that's all behind you now! (Pun intended)
Our soup last night was a success. and since Bill's mouth is sore and he's already lost one of his temporaries, it's good that our soup grew and grew and now he can have it all weekend long. So we're set for supper.
How about you?
