All in a Tuesday Afternoon

Sew many blocks to go!

Can I just say here how much I appreciate air-conditioning? Especially when it WORKS!

We had a freeze up of the old unit at the Quiltville Post Office over Sunday night.  When I arrived Monday morning it was 79 degrees in the post office at 9am. I turned the unit off to let it thaw -  and I watched that thermostat climb through the morning as I worked to get mail order out to the breeze of a floor fan.

It was at that point, hot and sweaty and only 11:30 am that I made the decision to let the unit just sit for the day and go to NC to start the moving of the stash.

But what to do with Lola? It was far too hot in there for her – 84 degrees and still climbing.

We have a split unit in the garage/shop keeping that space climate controlled for my book storage.  In these parts you deal with the humidity or end up with books with curling pages.

It was 72 in the garage, so we moved Lola and her stuff there overnight until the a/c could be dealt with.

And then the storms came, and took out the power at Quiltville Inn, the garage/shop and the QPO.

At least with the storm came falling temperatures, and cooler overnight lows.  By morning the power was back on, and we moved her back over to the QPO – the a/c unit unfrozen and functioning like it ever had.  Thanks for small miracles! 

I know at some point I’m going to have to replace that unit – but it is an expense I just can’t deal with right now.

Yesterday I reveled in cooler temps in that confined space – and by afternoon I found myself a bit of free time to dig into the Snails Trail project. (Pattern coming when the quilt is DONE – please stay tuned!)

These blocks make me so happy!

The whole object of this project is to use hunks, chunks and triangles that don’t fit my Scrap User’s System.  And there is LOADS of that kind of thing around here. Baskets and buckets full.  Some of the pieces are really too big to be called crumbs, but too small to be saved as a strip – you know that “stuff.”

This is perfect for that and I am loving putting all of the weird combinations of things together.

3 hours worth before it was time to come home – the entirety of my afternoon.

And this was the rest of it.

Unloading the van from Monday’s Stash Haul.

All of the fat quarter collection.  And stash yardage in neutrals (white to cream to beige to tan) all of the pink, all of the red, and a small bit of blue.

I need to invests in more Sterlite tubs!

And yes – I need to sew faster! LOL!

I had a good long conversation with my dad last evening, it is our daily ritual.  His daily challenge is to find some interesting topic or tidbit that we can discuss so that our conversations don’t simply revolve around “Another day in lockdown.”

As he is in the Phoenix area, and things are particularly bad there, not to mention the oppressive heat of the summer season – we laughed over his story that he got out and about to drop off the recycling.  LOL!  He said it was too bad it wasn’t further away because it didn’t take long enough.

I told him next time to just take a drive out in the country, play the music as loud as he wants in the car, sing along and just have a nice drive AWAY from his four walls.

We are extremely lucky that he is healthy at 80.  That he is active at 80.  He laughs about doing his exercises in his house because it is too hot outside.

He isn’t in assisted living – he is completely independent, but of course it feels like being on house arrest as he isn’t doing his usual pickleball thing or going to movies – any of those things that he takes pleasure in, and of course there is no girlfriend or spouse to talk to.  He feels the isolation.

And that is why we text in the morning and then talk in the evening.  We will get through this.

So this morning – he sent me this link and I LOVED IT!  I hope you do too.  Click to Play:

Thanks for the Wednesday ear worm dad!

Today – much of the same.  And as I flip through my memories of things that happened a year ago, 3 years ago, 7 years go in my facebook, my biggest fear is that I will run out of things to share with you here.  I’m not traveling, not teaching, not wandering antique malls like I used to do. (Though we did hit one place last week – GRATEFUL!)

The big question is – How to stay interesting and relevant without pulling in too much LEFT or RIGHT in this age of upheaval?

Can we hang on until mystery season when we once again have that excitement to fuel us?

Hope and Keep Busy -

Louisa May Alcott.

This was my friend Martha’s necklace the other day and I fell in love with it.  This is all we can do, right?  Hope.  And keep busy.  And stay off the news, keeping up to date minimally. To do what we do.  To care for ourselves and our families and take precautions when we need to go out.  To care for each other as much as we care for ourselves and our own rights.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

This is something that bears repeating on a regular basis!

Be kind! Be kind! Be kind!

Star Struck was one of the first free patterns that hit my fledgling website more than 20 years ago. It's fast, fun, and found under the free patterns tab at the top of the blog.

Have you made one?

And did you see that we have an IronEZ Gift-Away happening on Yesterday’s Post?  Enter on that post to win!  Drawing to happen Sunday.

Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!