Lots of Freshness
Another day that needed to be dealt with in regard to gloom and cold. How cold was it? Cold enough that we put in the two plants that have been on the edge of the Koi pond for this summer and quite a few summers in the past. It would be a shame if we let the frost get them as it might have tonight. All of the greenery in the patio porch made it look fritzie fresh. 
After Dennis bundled up he headed to the Koi pond. The winds of last night had brought the leaves everywhere but most importantly where they were not welcomed . . . the Koi pond. The water filters needed to be cleaned. The pond needed scoop after scoop of leaves taken off from the surface of the water and then also those that had gotten water logged and had sank to the bottom. The water was brown from all the dye in the leaves. Twelve noon brought us into the house and the heat within the house felt good to cold fingers.
It felt like a great time to get some of the pillows and blankets that have been used all season into the washer. In a perfect world it would have been great to put them on the clothesline. The clothes dryer did just fine. Yup, I feel spoiled. The first years when Orlin and I were married, right up to the time Carrie was not yet two, the laundry was hung out on the clotheslines. When the diapers froze stiff on the outside lines, Orlin put up multiple clotheslines across the width of the basement.
During the time that the laundry cycles worked their magic, I checked out the sewing studio. I had shut the sewing machine off last Thursday. Seven days of absence was all I could take. Deciding what to do and how to do it is the best part of the project. I had purchased for $1.00 each cloth 
napkins. I had mentioned this in a prior post. Fourteen of those napkins that were a plain color left Stauffer Avenue colorfully stitched and folded for a benefit. It was time to do something with the most undesirable ones. Plaid in dark colors. Ugh! I began pulling out scraps of fabric, a few spools of thread and then hit the library of designs in folders on my computer. Thank you Kersten! When Dennis checked on me at four this afternoon, I was in my element. I was using the applique patterns where a scrap of fabric is then stitched down all under the guise of machine embroidery.
It was a great day. The patio porch got a dose of freshness of the added plants, the freshly laundered blankets and pillows left a subtle fragrance of freshness within the house and my sewing studio has a fresh project underway. Priceless.