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Jun. 3rd, 2024 09:07 amLast week was kinda of weird. It was only a 3 day work week but it was the longest 3 days ever. It was supposed to be slow...and it wasn't. so much emergency stuff happening and people with their heads cut off and my muse was screaming at me that I should not be a slug...but it was hard. My brain was just toast but I had plans. Plus we had an invasion of the peccary variety. I family of javelinas had decided our backyard. They can be aggressive especially if there are babies so when they got into the birdseed at midnight. So we yelled at them and they ignored us. By morning they had seemed to move on but the actually had moved to teh side yard and then cause 2 sets of work men to not come in the yard. One was the gas company for the blue staking and the second was our landscaping crew. Our wall guy came that night and we got them to move along and shooed them out of the yard. Mel and I and Benton all did that with and without the hose and they have seemed to finally gotten the hint the yard is not theirs.
Javelinas
Pics from last weekends sewing fest are Sewing for Fiona
Thursday Willa came over to help me troubleshoot the Flair58. I need to really do a good preheat and I need to use dryer (non-oily) beans as well as a very fine grind. So I pulled a lot of shots which will become afternoon iced items or espresso martinis. But I pulled 3 good shots and that was nice. Got a lot of good advice on it and chatting with Willa was nice too.
Friday we all slept in since it was no school, no work...but I still did some work and then I got my studio set up for working on quilting. I ended up paying for the pattern and that was good though it was more a guideline and that was also okay. For my first quilt piece should I have done something without half and quarter squares? Yes, probably. The first book on beginner quilting I picked up had no half square anything. So yeah. The album I'm shoving things into is:
Gibson Quilt I will hopefully get the side binding on it Tuesday and then plan out my embroidery patch.
But Friday I only got the squares cut out and then had a massage while Benton played games and Mel was off teaching.
Saturday my plan was to get meds for Wander and pick up things to keep her occupied. That kind of worked. I hit the wrong pharmacy of the same name and then I spent a quick trip with Wander before getting the download to Megan and playing with Tilly. It was good to catch up and then I hit up Maguires to talk with a jeweler to talk about my mom's diamonds. On my next off friday I will go in and get things designed I hope. Then I hit up Sprouts for dinner fixings before heading home. I'm now learning the way of the land on the West side. I made home made hummus in the blender...which isn't as easy as food processor but it was tasty. I cooked up gyro meat and then got out stuff for sides like dolmas for a greek style dinner. Tasty.
Then Mel and I sat on the couch and I spun more on the silk/wool project and he worked on some plying while we watched updates from Time Team on YT. They have a new Sutton Hoo specials and its neat. I hit bed and my book #19 for the year and then read #20 the next day which was Poppy Done to Death and now I'm in #21 All the Little Liars. So I'm going to finish the Aurora Teagarden series before finishing up the memoir from Sir Patrick. Its just been so easy to hit "next book" in my kindle app. Its okay.
Sunday Megan and I ran errands and visited Wander. I helpe Megan get her big loom into the house so she could work in the AC. I got home and cooled off (yay tucson is over 100 now...bleah) and then got the squares sewed and recut and pieced together though I was frustrated with our internet repeater pod kept overheating and quitting which meant my tv kept stopping. Ugh. I know first world problems but it was annoying. And I was tired and hangry and then when I went to make dinner I couldnt' find anything I needed and Benton was being obtuse and ugh. My brain imploded....but I made pesto and we had a nice dinner. After dinner I got back to trimming squares and finally got the block fully assembled. It was still a bit wonky but way better than before. I squared it up just before I ended for the evening and reset my studio for a work day. Having sewing things out and teh cats is a recipe for disaster. I've left the ironing board up though since I still need it and I need to rearrange things that I shuffled looking for something to be able to put it back and I found a cute little pattern I had bought a decade ago to make sewing caddy and I think I will do that for when i'm sitting on the couch. Or for presents. We shall see how industrious i can be. I do plan on taking the 1951 machine to the norther house so 1) get back some space in my home studio and 2) having a machine up there is a good plan.
So yeah that has been the weekend and the reading and the crafting. Maybe next week I will have mojo to workout...cause my back is telling me all about things.
Javelinas
Pics from last weekends sewing fest are Sewing for Fiona
Thursday Willa came over to help me troubleshoot the Flair58. I need to really do a good preheat and I need to use dryer (non-oily) beans as well as a very fine grind. So I pulled a lot of shots which will become afternoon iced items or espresso martinis. But I pulled 3 good shots and that was nice. Got a lot of good advice on it and chatting with Willa was nice too.
Friday we all slept in since it was no school, no work...but I still did some work and then I got my studio set up for working on quilting. I ended up paying for the pattern and that was good though it was more a guideline and that was also okay. For my first quilt piece should I have done something without half and quarter squares? Yes, probably. The first book on beginner quilting I picked up had no half square anything. So yeah. The album I'm shoving things into is:
Gibson Quilt I will hopefully get the side binding on it Tuesday and then plan out my embroidery patch.
But Friday I only got the squares cut out and then had a massage while Benton played games and Mel was off teaching.
Saturday my plan was to get meds for Wander and pick up things to keep her occupied. That kind of worked. I hit the wrong pharmacy of the same name and then I spent a quick trip with Wander before getting the download to Megan and playing with Tilly. It was good to catch up and then I hit up Maguires to talk with a jeweler to talk about my mom's diamonds. On my next off friday I will go in and get things designed I hope. Then I hit up Sprouts for dinner fixings before heading home. I'm now learning the way of the land on the West side. I made home made hummus in the blender...which isn't as easy as food processor but it was tasty. I cooked up gyro meat and then got out stuff for sides like dolmas for a greek style dinner. Tasty.
Then Mel and I sat on the couch and I spun more on the silk/wool project and he worked on some plying while we watched updates from Time Team on YT. They have a new Sutton Hoo specials and its neat. I hit bed and my book #19 for the year and then read #20 the next day which was Poppy Done to Death and now I'm in #21 All the Little Liars. So I'm going to finish the Aurora Teagarden series before finishing up the memoir from Sir Patrick. Its just been so easy to hit "next book" in my kindle app. Its okay.
Sunday Megan and I ran errands and visited Wander. I helpe Megan get her big loom into the house so she could work in the AC. I got home and cooled off (yay tucson is over 100 now...bleah) and then got the squares sewed and recut and pieced together though I was frustrated with our internet repeater pod kept overheating and quitting which meant my tv kept stopping. Ugh. I know first world problems but it was annoying. And I was tired and hangry and then when I went to make dinner I couldnt' find anything I needed and Benton was being obtuse and ugh. My brain imploded....but I made pesto and we had a nice dinner. After dinner I got back to trimming squares and finally got the block fully assembled. It was still a bit wonky but way better than before. I squared it up just before I ended for the evening and reset my studio for a work day. Having sewing things out and teh cats is a recipe for disaster. I've left the ironing board up though since I still need it and I need to rearrange things that I shuffled looking for something to be able to put it back and I found a cute little pattern I had bought a decade ago to make sewing caddy and I think I will do that for when i'm sitting on the couch. Or for presents. We shall see how industrious i can be. I do plan on taking the 1951 machine to the norther house so 1) get back some space in my home studio and 2) having a machine up there is a good plan.
So yeah that has been the weekend and the reading and the crafting. Maybe next week I will have mojo to workout...cause my back is telling me all about things.
