Laundry Monday
Laundry indeed! Three good sized loads and for a short time the basket is empty. Nothing feels better than putting on clean clothes. Tomorrow will be bedding laundry, another great feeling to get done.
My morning routine is one that I like. Peddling the bike and then on to a walk down Stauffer Avenue. Out came the garden tools as I was going to lob out a bit more clover under the Hosta. What? Not a patio porch kitty in site. The end result was more greenery to dry out for it to then be burned. The clover patch is getting less. As long as the soil remains damp so I can work the hoe, we may get to the end of it. This time of the year, the weeds aren’t apt to try one more growth spurt.
Dennis and friend Dwayne were on a road trip this morning. The 2022 Heston belt buckles are out. Miller-Sellner in Sleepy Eye handles them. Dennis’ collection was started at the very beginning in 1974. It would be silly to stop picking up each year’s buckle after all this time. I knew I wouldn’t see Dennis until noon, if then.
I enjoyed a cup of coffee while cooling off from the clover weeding. I had worked up a good sweat and reading for a bit while enjoying the coffee fit just right.
Dennis got home after one. He and Dwayne stopped at LaSalle and had noon lunch. He let me know that supper would be light if non-existent. A half portion of a beef commercial plus a piece of strawberry pie can do that to the appetite.
I now have enough fabric cut for sewing up two quilt tops in the Log Cabin pattern. Using the rotary cutting tool, it is best if I cool it for the remainder of the day. Stopping the use of the hands and arms when it begins to ache . . . it’s too late, the damage has already been done. I have a booklet from mom, Lena, that is called Quilt in a Day. When I do start sewing, I may well follow her step by step instructions, rather than doing the willy nilly of times past. Reading “the rest of the story” is a good idea before beginning. Read twice . . . stitch once.