A Hump Day
Wednesdays are sweet. I have made it through half of the week and the remainder looks doable.
Did I realize Wednesdays are senior citizen’s day at the grocers when Dennis said he would let me ride shotgun today as he had errands to run. No, I did not remember that. All I did know was that after we had made a stop at the post office, the drug store, and the Fleet and Farm store, I did have several items on the grocery list.
No way was I getting out of the grocery store quickly. There were many people I had not seen in some time. Yup . . . we were all in the same age bracket. As I headed back out to the little red pickup with my one bag of goodies, Dennis had snagged someone to visit with a while just by sitting in the parking lot. This will definitely go down as our social outing for the week.
As it has been some time since I have taken inventory of my stabilizers for the embroidery module, I took a cup of cold coffee leftover from breakfast and headed down to the studio. Later in the month of October, the sewing machine and I will head to Bird Island for the machine is to get a grease and lube job. Every six months that trip had been taken. As I got busy with medical appointments in 2021, it has now been a year. Kelly does a bang up job as he also replaces all of the cutting heads of the automatic thread cutters. Between the automatic needle threader and the thread cutters, it saves my hands and fingers a lot of the pinching movements.
Kelly does the repairs and Amanda runs the retail aspect of the shop. That includes fabrics, threads and kits. Amanda puts out a newsletter every month via an email. I picked up on her last one that there was an upgrade for my model of sewing machine. I phoned her and asked her to save an update package for me. This machine and I are in it for the long haul. There were items for the sewing aspects, including more fonts and more decorative stitches. The embroidery had enhanced placement while projects were in the hoop. I look forward to finding out more when I visit.
I have not as yet been in a quilt or supply store in 2021. I am looking forward to it, if for nothing more than to take in the ambiance of the Bird Island shop. I have felt cloistered. The grocery, drug and clinic have just not been cutting it for me. That tells me I am more back to normal than not. Sweet!
Dennis is doing supper. I am staying in the studio, keeping busy by cleaning my machine of threads and fuzz since finishing Megan’s quilt. I do plan on doing some sewing machine stitching before the trip to Kelly and Amanda’s. A new needle is warranted as well. There is something to be said that too many cooks in the kitchen might ruin a good thing.