Okay, I’m ready for spring
Two posts in two weeks. *Gasp!* This week was long and short all at the same time. On Tuesday, we were blessed with the blizzard that hit the rest of the midwest. Total snowfall 10.5 inches. Both Tuesday and Wednesday, I had snow days home from work, thank goodness. Driving 15 miles to work would have been downright dangerous. Needless to say, Bryan worked both days though his library closed early on Tuesday and opened at noon on Wednesday.
Besides the blowing and the snowing sideways, the blizzard presented other reasons to watch the snow come down. About 3:30pm, the postman’s truck got stuck in a snowbank across the street from our house. About 4:30pm, we realized he was still there and hoped that someone would be there to rescue him soon. Bryan took some almonds out to him and to let him know if he needed to use the facilities, he could just knock on our door. About an hour later, he took us up on the offer and said he hoped that someone would be there soon. After nearly three hours, a truck arrived to pull the mail truck out of the snow. We’d received so much snow that the truck pulling the mail truck out was struggling on our street.
On my days home, I got a lot of quilting done. I’ve been working on this quilt since August and hope to have it off to the recipient soon as I have other projects to be started. I challenged myself this time with free-motion quilting. I did it along certain parts of the quilt and with the variegated thread, it looks really cool. Free-motion quilting definitely takes some practice and a larger sewing space.
I don’t read as many blogs as I used to but there are a few that I read, one in particular is Young House Love. They are all about re-purposing things you already have and we were so excited today to get this moved around in our basement. When my aunt put the addition on the house we live in about four years ago, these cabinets that had been in the “eat-in” area of the kitchen were moved down to the basement. During that time they have collected dust and been home to random items. Last spring after using two small tables for our seeds I decided I wanted to use these cabinets for seed-starting and garden tool storage. This morning, we put on our grubby clothes and decided that today we would finally get these cabinets moved. They used to sit side-by-side with a counter-top ledge but because of extra siding being stored in our basement, we had to set them up in this arrangement, which actually works out perfectly. (We don’t quite know what the odd pipe in the middle of the wall is about but it’s definitely not a lab despite its looks.) I’ve already moved all of my garden supplies and tools into the cabinets and am ready to start flower seeds and cold weather veggies next week. Now I can’t wait for spring!
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