“The RoseBouquet”

I’m back from my one-day mini-vacation. Do you want to hear about it?

Well, I did my computer backups while I watered my plants. (A trumpet blows when the backups are done). Then with Dad away at a charity auction, I went to work cutting out tops and a dress on the dining room table. About 12:30 pm I got hungry and decided that might be enough. One dress and six tops were ready to sew.

I raided the fridge and then I went to the guest room which is also the sewing room, and got set to work. Only to discover that I was out of white thread for the sewing machine. The serger still has several cones of white, but they don’t work on the sewing machine. I sat and stared at everything a few minutes, thinking. Mom’s old serger is only a 3-thread, it doesn’t do the straight seam at the same time like newer models, so I usually sew first and then serge, but maybe I could serge first now, and another day, when I have the white thread, I could sew up the seams. It would be a shame to waste my sewing holiday, so why not do as much of what I could do and finish another time?

So I did. By about 4 pm I was getting a burning muscle pain between my shoulder blades. I began to think of myself as a lousy sewer, and I should never have bothered… Hey, it was time to wind up! I hung on another hour and a half, but then I stopped.

In the evening I switched to printing out that kid’s book for Elise. It would be too late for Monday, but it had taken me a couple of days to get that new printer Dad got with the digital camera to work. I got both a hard cover and a matching colouring book done.

Yesterday we made a shopping run into the city, and I bought some white thread. Hopefully this Saturday I can finish up my sewing, and have comfortable clothes for this hot weather.

Which by the way, is swinging in circles. We have a hot day or two, then a thunderstorm cools it all down for a day or two, then we have some hot days, and another thunder shower to chill us down.

Are you blessed like that too?