It has been a fairly quiet week, our life seems to be quiet these days. The usual hunting and gathering, sewing group, ukulele, choir......also quite a bit of wasted time with not much to show for it, but two houses were made.
The darker house has teeny cat footprints, letters on its roof, and flowers in its garden, while the other is a yellow and blue print with a nice green lawn in front. The cat print is a Debbie Mumm fabric from a v-e-r-y long time ago; there was a small piece in my stash, and now there is a smaller piece.
The sewing group had fun making folded fabric coasters. I suggested making one of each style to learn how it's done, and they all seemed to enjoy their lesson. I predict that there will be coasters made for home use and for gifts, especially for one member who has family overseas and is always looking for lightweight gifts that don't cost the earth to buy or send.
Recently, after seeing one being used by a member of my quilt group, I bought myself a 'lap app' table. You can pay a large sum of money for the real deal, or you can buy a less expensive option - guess what I did? Mine came without a cover, so a padded liner then a pretty outer cover need to be made. My stash yielded a cute print from long ago, a small-scale print of sewing machines and thread spools in blue on a cream background, which will be used for the outer cover. One can buy a pattern for the cover, or one can wing it......which one is going to have a go at doing. How hard can it be?
The leftover tumblers from the front of 'Why Not' are still being joined into a strip for the back, great portable handwork for in front of TV and for taking anywhere. Once that's done, work on the flower basket quilt will resume.
A couple of days ago when we were out and about we noticed that some of the trees are less green than they were a month ago. It's not yet time for colours to start changing but it is, it seems, time for them to fade a little and for some to have seed pods growing. Days are shorter now, mornings are nice and dim, evenings are a little shorter, and it won't be long until there is a feel of autumn in the air - and won't that be nice?
Not long now until we head south, about five weeks I think. We are so looking forward to it; apart from a couple of day trips we haven't been outside our town for 16 months now, and April is a nice time to be headed south where it's a little cooler than here. By the time we return, autumn will be in full swing.
Knowledge is quite a thing, isn't it? Most of us know all sorts of Stuff, then there is Stuff we don't know, and Stuff that we know we don't know, and Stuff that we don't know that we don't know.......this morning a photo from one of our trips to Canada popped up on the screen, a small town on Georgian Bay with boats drawn out of the water for winter. It reminded me that we also saw, in our travels, boats and an occasional RV shrink wrapped in plastic to protect them from the elements, and I wondered how it was done. So I looked it up, it's quite an amazing process! I doubt that it's done at all in Australia because our milder climate allows RVs to be used all year round, and in many parts of the country boats can be too.
Now we know how boats and RVs are shrink wrapped - a piece of knowledge that we may never need to use, but it's in our brains.
We move on to luncheon.
"Luncheon.
In many of our large cities, where business prevents the head of the family from returning to dinner until a late hour, luncheon is served about midday, and serves as an early dinner for children and servants. There is much less formality in the serving of lunch than of dinner, It is all placed upon the table at once, whether it consists of one or more courses. Where only one or two are at luncheon, the repast is ordinarily served on a tray."
When I was a child our midday meal was called "dinner", and our evening meal was "tea", terms, I believe, imported from England. Now we are more sophisticated so we have "lunch" and "dinner". "Supper" is a snack served, if desired, between dinner and bedtime......although "supper" in Canada and U.S.A. seems to be the name of the evening meal. "Luncheon" is also used here for a formal dinner during the day.
So long as you have enough to eat, and can eat what you have.
Enjoy your days!
well I never would have thought of shrink wrapping an RV... maybe fabric to protect it? Great to have some more houses... is a lap app what you put on your lap to hold the laptop? with cushioned under...
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Long while ago, I had a job, looking for problems in a manufacturing process. This meant I had to observe all the shifts. On my first 11PM to 7 AM shift, at three in the morning, one of the workers, a farmer, who worked manufacturing at nights, asked me if I had "brought a good tea". I had no idea what he was talking about. Then he explained that it is hard to make it through the night shift if you don't have a good meal at 3AM. This area still maintains a strong Irish influence, "up the valley" in the farming communities, so a meal at a time when a body shouldn't be awake, became tea.
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