Monday, March 12, 2012

The wind sure howled last night and into this morning. According to the news tonight, depending on which channel we were tuned to, our winds were anywhere between 111 and 113 km/h. Two panels in the fence in the back blew down, and the birdhouse Will made for us blew off it’s hanger. We’ll have to fix the fence, but the birdhouse is okay.

I had everything packed up for BOND this morning. I was making a stir-fry with rice so planned to take two of my own pots and my fry pan with me. It was while I was loading up my bags that I noticed the damage to the fence. Just a short time later the BOND office called to say that they weren’t going to do the lunch today. They didn’t think many would come out in the weather. As it turned out by noon the winds had died down a bit, but it would have been difficult getting the groceries to the car from the store and from the car into the hospital. The power was off at Safeway this morning so I expect Save On Foods (where I shop for the lunches) lost their power as well.

So what to do with my day off? When the kids were small and I had an unexpected day off the first thing I did was put in a load of laundry. My laundry was all caught up so I made myself a second cup of coffee and headed up to my studio.

I spent the day working on my Easter project. I finished the pieces for one unit, but I didn’t like some of the colors and I thought the pattern looked a bit off. So for the second unit I’m changing some colours and changing parts of the pattern I didn’t like. I’ve hit a rough patch on one of the pieces though. I’ve ripped it out at least half a dozen times because I always seem to be one stitch off when I reach the end of the row. The pieces have to fit together or I wouldn’t worry about it.

I’ll get my gear packed up tonight for the bee tomorrow and then maybe I’ll tackle the troublesome piece again.