Same As It Ever Was

Sunday: 

It's been awhile since I posted. 

Summer seemed like it was going to let up for a minute there but now we are back to days in the high 90s. Gotta love climate change.

What's been going on?

Today I've been doing housework. Nothing major, just lots of little things that need to get done. I did some laundry. I cleaned what we call the middle bathroom (it's in the middle of the house where the other two bathrooms are in bedrooms on opposite sides of the house). I cleaned off the dining room table. I did the dishes. I schlepped a million little things back to where they go. I vacuumed and dusted. Just lots of little chores that need to get done. 

Dave went to visit his mother, taking the dog with him, so it was quiet in the afternoon. I haven't been outside today yet and it's almost 5:30 p.m. (No, wait, that's not true. I did take out the garbage and recycling and help bring the groceries in from the car, so I have been outside. It was hot.)

I've been rearranging my sewing area and I thought I had a good layout, but I'm going to have to shift things around because there is no useful outlet near the ironing board. Last night I was cutting some fabric and I needed to iron it first, so I had to move the ironing board closer to the outlet. That is not a long-term solution. I have so many projects started, but I started another one, cutting fabric into five-inch squares. I think I may make a quilt that pairs up colorful fabric with white flannel. 

Tuesday:

It's been raining on and off for the last couple of days. It's cold today--cold-ish, I mean--only 67 degrees right now and tonight it will be in the 50s. After so many days in the high 90s and 100s, it's nice to have a cool day and rain. Yesterday on the way to my appointment (another bust of an MRI, this one at Upright MRI), Dave pointed out that some of the cottonwoods around the village are already changing colors and dropping their leaves. 

Soon the hummingbirds will move on and the cranes will return. How many more years will we have of this, I wonder.

I've been working--very, very slowly--on a four-patch quilt though this morning I got the idea to make it a disappearing four patch. That's when you take a four patch block and cut it up and sew it back together so that you get a different block; you make the original four patch block "disappear". I cut up three of the eight or so blocks I had and sewed them back together and then I started to wonder if it was worth all the effort. I don't have a clear enough vision in my head when it comes to the disappearing blocks and they are a lot of work for a not-clear enough vision, so I put the blocks aside and made lunch.

I made sandwiches (tuna with nonfat Greek yogurt instead of mayo for me and a giant cheese and tomato sandwich for Dave) and we had baby carrots and nonfat ranch dressing (ranch seasoning mixed into Greek yogurt and kefir) too. While we ate lunch, we looked at placing an online grocery order at Whole Foods. They only have 8-9 p.m. time slots open for pickup, so we'll see about placing the order for tomorrow instead of today.

My allergies are going crazy today. I should rinse my sinuses out with some saline. I hate doing it even though it makes me feel better after.

Here are some random photos:

I was mending a pair of David's jeans and found plastic sewn into one of the seams. I took that photo to show Dave. (The shiny plastic bit is over my thumbnail.)

I found this little scorpion on the floor of the bedroom one night. Dave was sleeping but I knew he would want to see it, so I put a box over it until the morning when I showed it to Dave who took it outside.

I took a Covid test last week because I wasn't feeling well. It was negative. My brain is in hyper anxious mode right now, so of course since the Covid test was negative, that means I actually have cancer.

This is not a scorpion. It is a pseudoscorpion, a tiny (2-7 mm usually) arachnid (eight-legged and related to spiders but not actually spiders). They are sometimes called book scorpions because they resemble scorpions and were often found in or around books where they fed on book lice. We don't really have book lice anymore since our books are not glued together with starchy glues that book lice like to eat. So now pseudoscorpions eat little things like springtails and the like.

Do you play Wordle? I do. For the first time ever, I hit the word on the first try. ("Audio" is one of the opening words I use often as it helps to establish vowels ASAP. Other words I like are "pious" and "early.")

Okay, that's it. Happy Tuesday.