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Typical Summer Saturday
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femme4jack is right when she says I'm happiest when keeping my hands busy. I started a new embroidery project yesterday and I've been feeling much better. It's only a vintage linen hand towel, but it's pushing the boundaries of what I know. It's my first project with silk floss, my first project working with a single strand of floss, and my first project with cutwork. So far so good.
This morning I went to my 8am belly dance class, where we didn't even get let into the rec center until 8:20. Despite that, we went through our very cardio routine lots of times by the end. I don't think I could've done another twenty minutes! Then I went to farmer's market (didn't buy much; only garlic, which I was almost out of, this week), four estate sales, and an auction. Three of the estate sales didn't have anything I wanted; only the first had some sewing and embroidery items I bought, as well as a few vintage photos and two vase frogs. Grand total of $6.75. The auction had two items I wanted; the first went for five times what I was willing to pay for it; not wanting the second badly enough to wait around another 45 minutes to be outbid on it too, I left early.
After the final new window was finally installed (yay!), Wonderful Husband and I elected to walk a mile each way to get hamburgers for lunch, and then this afternoon I harvested rather a lot of tomatoes, peppers, and six cucumbers. I have reached the state in gardening where I begin to truly appreciate plants whose fruit is a different color than their leaves!
Banana bread in the breadmaker, bacon-mushroom-chard quiche for dinner, and two cookie sheets of quartered cherry tomatoes roasting in the oven. Next, world peace!
femme4jack is right when she says I'm happiest when keeping my hands busy. I started a new embroidery project yesterday and I've been feeling much better. It's only a vintage linen hand towel, but it's pushing the boundaries of what I know. It's my first project with silk floss, my first project working with a single strand of floss, and my first project with cutwork. So far so good.This morning I went to my 8am belly dance class, where we didn't even get let into the rec center until 8:20. Despite that, we went through our very cardio routine lots of times by the end. I don't think I could've done another twenty minutes! Then I went to farmer's market (didn't buy much; only garlic, which I was almost out of, this week), four estate sales, and an auction. Three of the estate sales didn't have anything I wanted; only the first had some sewing and embroidery items I bought, as well as a few vintage photos and two vase frogs. Grand total of $6.75. The auction had two items I wanted; the first went for five times what I was willing to pay for it; not wanting the second badly enough to wait around another 45 minutes to be outbid on it too, I left early.
After the final new window was finally installed (yay!), Wonderful Husband and I elected to walk a mile each way to get hamburgers for lunch, and then this afternoon I harvested rather a lot of tomatoes, peppers, and six cucumbers. I have reached the state in gardening where I begin to truly appreciate plants whose fruit is a different color than their leaves!
Banana bread in the breadmaker, bacon-mushroom-chard quiche for dinner, and two cookie sheets of quartered cherry tomatoes roasting in the oven. Next, world peace!
