It was a great day not to be working today. I did some errands this morning (thanks Thoma Tires! The sign at Thoma’s is a local institution) and was back in plenty of time to enjoy puttering around, putting some stuff away, cleaning up a bit. The cats of course were puzzled by all this, but they coped. Gus followed me around and demanded some lap time occasionally. Deirdre took a nice long nap under the covers. She’s no dummy!

Not much sewing but that’s ok. Stay tuned for future adventures.

I’d like to suggest to the industrial giants that make irons, the following:

If you insist on putting bloody “auto-off” features on irons, at least make it possible to turn it OFF. You can make it a default. You can make it a painful little button to disable it. You can make me sign in blood that I will not sue you.

Or, you can come over here and finish iron this top, with an awful lot of 2″ seams with your iron that turns off very quickly while it’s being held horizontally.

uh, hello. Irons are used in a horizontal position, corporate masterminds!

Were you thinking about that at all? Ironing – iron held horizontally – iron must be hot. I’m just saying.

Now wouldn’t isn’t that be a great title for a blog? But it’s not the title of my this blog!

modified 2 april 2006

I’ve been in a “clean it out o’ here” sort of mood the last few days and it’s best to go with feelings like that. Part of me has been itching to both get on with the current in-progress quilt and get started on the new ideas that are now ready to begin. But alas – I know I really need to put stuff in bags and make them go away. That serves me in the long run. And the projects are like tantalizing things on the horizon.

Beautiful bit of alpenglow tonight as I came home. That gorgeous gold glow in the sky at the horizon that gets transformed by skimming over the hills until it hits the treetops and hilltops where you are with this amazing color and light. Bonus: many many deer out feeding in the fields tonight. They look a bit shaggy which probably means they’re starting to lose their dull winter coats.

In other news? Just a note that Saturday’s normal programming will be interrupted by the 30th anniversary of Apple.

That is all.

What a great day to be home! I put away a little more stuff and then went for a walk. It was a bit cooler than I thought but the alternating of sun and shadow and breeze was very pleasant. A few birds, a chipmunk, a pair of mallards (the male all shiny and irridescent), but not much else out and around. Lots of dry leaves chasing around in the fields. A few patches of snow! Lots of wind-broken trees. Some waterbugs. A couple of cheeps from the braver peepers. That unmistakable wet ground, decaying leaves sort of smell and that fresh fresh sunshiny breeze smell. A creeper pretending he was a woodpecker and making a lot of noise. Suddenly, a really big bird that sure looked like an eagle, but that was probably a big hawk (all I could really see was the size and the light-colored head). And a trio of crows yacking it up.