A Saturday

A bright Saturday on Stauffer Avenue.

It never fails, if I need to get up in the middle of the night for a bathroom call, I go back to bed and sleep deeply.  What happens then is that I am not getting up at seven.  I was sound asleep when the phone went off at 8:15 when Dennis’ grandson, AJ, said he would be over in 15 minutes.  AJ lives in Mankato and had planned on working on his camper that is stored here in St. James today.  He and his parents had already been at the Home Town Café for breakfast.  Dennis was still in bed and we made tracks to at least have clothes on when the family arrived.

For the sum of $24.99 that we reimbursed AJ for, the Wi-Fi booster that is plugged into the east wall of the kitchen’s outlet, Dennis has a television in the patio porch that is working off of the Mediacom’s router.  Whew!  Check that off of our list of things to take care of this spring.

I was set to do some tidy, tidy when the phone rang.  My brother from Decorah called, which is not often.  I gave him 54 minutes.  We are now caught up on the latest and greatest.  I am sure the house is quiet since his wife passed away earlier in the year.

The tidy, tidy that needed doing was the shelving in the kitchen.  We had a tub and surround dismantled this week as well as having sheetrock work done after the new walk-in shower was installed.  No matter what takes place to keep things under control, I have lived with enough remodeling projects to know that debris takes flight and lands at will.   The shelving on top of the refrigerator is next on a list . . . sometime.  It all needed to be done under the guise of spring cleaning.

After pulling choices of scrap fabric in the studio, I am getting close to cutting the sizes of blocks for the next pattern.  The sizes range from 7/8″ square to 1″ x 1 1/2″.  I am actually finding this project to be enjoyable.  No time frame.  No pressure.  It will be some time before the sewing machine is turned on.  There are to be 20 blocks measuring 3.5 square when completed. 

I think supper will be frozen waffles and Jimmy Dean precooked sausages.  Sounds good to me.