A Chilly Day
March is so unpredictable. Warm to cold. Wet to dry. I think spring fever is hitting the ole cowboy. With the batteries charged up on the small leaf blower, he is doing just that. The leaves that are still weighted down from ice, snow and wet hung tough. The rest were air borne. When Dennis came in it was due to the fact that the battery had to be put back on the charger.
Brett had asked a favor of me. He wanted to know if I could do some golf towels for him. I had no idea what a gold towel was or what its purpose would be. Come to find out, just as I had done towels for Megan and Carrie for the teams to wipe their skates off as they came off of the ice, these golf towels are to wipe off the clubs. Hmm. I would imagine not all golf clubs hit the ball on squarely.
Today I have been playing around with a very minimalist program I have from Bernina. For $600.00 I had purchased a program called Tool Box. I can free-form text layouts in multiple lines in multiple fonts. It is much like the Word program that home computers had with which to print out labels or posters. This Tool Box will actually take the design and digitize it for loading onto a flash drive, then loading it onto the sewing machine. I did quite a bit of it for Kersten when I had purchased digitized images of her Pokemon characters and enlarged them on Tool Box to do quilt blocks of them.
What a blessing when I can pull out a 9″ x 9″ pan of frozen meatloaf that only needs to be taken from the raw state to the baked state for supper. Earlier in the day I had hit our Dollar Store and our grocery store for some staples for the pantry. I do so much better when I can go into the pantry and pull out items for a meal rather than making lots of trips for one or two items as needed. When I got home Dennis helped me unload and add to the pantry cabinets. Bread and milk as needed is easy. I did notice that there were some shelves that were totally bare in both places that I shopped at. Noticeably the toilet paper and sanitizers. One thing I had been wanting to include in grocery purchases was a small box of instant milk. There are days when that noon bowl of oatmeal for Dennis is short of a bit of milk. When Dennis unpacked it . . . “Hmm, this hasn’t been in my world since I left Korea.” Sorry, but in a pinch, it sure will come in handy to open an envelope rather than making a trip in the car. Surprisingly, it was the last box on the shelf.
This has been a good week. I rousted out lots of loved memories from times past. For me it is a good thing to realize that where I am today didn’t happen without incidents of two people working through challenges and building fortitude that has served me well over the years. I can and do, silently think of and thank Orlin as that is where it all began.
May everyone have a great weekend of spring feeling weather. If Dennis is having episodes of spring fever, I am sure lots of able bodied people are right there doing their own thing.