Monday, August 17, 2020

Last night before bed we sat out on the deck and watched a lightening storm all around us – no thunder but big swaths of sheet lightening. About an hour after I turned in there was lots of noise from either heavy rain or hail; it stopped and started three or four times. Pat brought a fan into the bedroom and it helped but it wasn’t a comfortable night. As we listened to the radio this morning it was already 24 degrees before eight. It is really hot today as well and unless we have a good cooling breeze tonight it will be uncomfortable again for sleeping.

The good news of the day is that our restoration has started. It’s been ten months since the flood and we had learned to live with the state of mess in the basement. They have started with the drywall in the bathroom and, over the next couple of weeks, they’ll get it all finished. Pat and I went out this morning and bought a new vanity, new faucets and a new toilet for the downstairs bathroom. Some of the “old” cabinetry we’ll move into the shed for storage and some of it we will take to Texada for the workshop.

Pat went across to the studio just after lunch today and I’ve been upstairs quilting. I’m working on a small-ish project and I don’t think it is responsible for the heat I’m feeling. There are nine blocks in the wall hanging I’m doing and I only have two finished so it will probably be cooler by the time I’m finishing up.

I have a good book and some hand stitching I can do while sitting under the ceiling fan in the living room.

Sunday, August 16, 2020

You would think after a couple of days I’d have something positive to report, or something to show you. Well I have nothing. I can’t even say what I did on those days to waste all my time.

I know I did some yard work and somehow I managed to make a complete mess of my studio without having anything to show for it. I really thought I would get back to my machine today but that hasn’t happened; it is too hot upstairs now to spend any more time working.

We are ready for the restoration people to come in tomorrow morning. I had all of my bins moved out of the basement before Pat got back from Texada on Saturday; I helped him out a bit this morning in boxing up some of the small equipment but he is still working on taking his desk apart and clearing his electronics from the surfaces.

I’ve managed to do a bit of clean-up in my studio and I’m ready to hit the sewing machine whenever I get back to it. I have a birthday gift cut out and ready to stitch, I have two rows of my UFO ready to start stitching on (these rows were the ones that required all the templates), and I have the latest steps for my mystery quilt prepped and ready to sew.

I finished the latest clue in my Hex-Along but I’ve decided that before the project gets any larger I want to get the centre piece done. I have that all prepped and it will be my stitching project for the evening.