Tuesday

                Straw flowers love this time of year.  They are hanging on to all the warm they can get.

There was a little news last night...Oops.  I should have typed big news.  It came from Select Sewing about my machine.  And...a big repair bill is coming.  About as big as what the machine cost new years ago.  Yes...I wore my sewing friend totally to death.  New motor, new everything else as well.  But I'll have a new machine that still is so much cheaper the buying a bran new Pfaff.  Even the cheaper ones. Woo.  Those new machines need a huge bank loan.  So.  I'm off the grid for about four weeks.  That's something really new for me.  I have another 100 burps to give to Ginny with the hope that there are enough burps clothes until I'm back on the grid.

So what am I doing today.  Cleaning.  Organizing. Putting things where they belong.  Going through things.  All of that and more to wear myself out totally.  It's all the other things that now seem important.  The recycle gray bin is filling. I've had things I might do something with.  Well, if they have been around for a while the chances to do have been here for a long time.  It's out of the house time.  Some things will stay and some will go for sure. 

The weather is wonderful and it was time to dig the cannas who had gotten a taste of frost.  Others have escaped.  Cannas multiply like rabbits.  So there are a lot to work with.  

Out of two come many.  There are three more huge canna's to dig.  They just aren't ready for the shovel.  These have been dug and sprayed clean, drying in the sun.  Then stored for the winter to do all over again in the spring with digging.  You get the idea. 

I worked on recycling prayer candles used on All Saints Sunday.  The little ones got remelted for later wax needs.  Bigger ones got their wicks trimmed and will be used next year until they are to small.  It's a messy job and one I like to have finished.  And IT IS FININSHED!  They will go back to church soon along with a few other things I've been working on.

                    These are the meltdowns.  The save pile is about three times more than this pile

Doug was off to another bone check up.  Old people have a lot to check.  I'm happy to be here for all that needs checking.  Some never get to this stage.  I am greatful.

There was time to sit for a spell in the afternoon.  I took advantage of the chair.  We are good friends.

The refrigerator and freezer got a short clean out.  The freezer things reminded me of the unknown soldier.   What was it anyway. 


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