Friday, July 21, 2017

Nothing is worse than a summer cold. I should know because I’m currently suffering from one. I should have known I was coming down with something – last night I didn’t have enough energy to even pick up my knitting. I didn’t sleep well and have felt lousy all day. It doesn’t help that it’s cloudy and showery outside.

Some things had to go on though. Our financial “people” have recently left the bank and set up their own business. We spent over an hour with them this morning transferring investment accounts and signing, what seemed like, our life away.

I’ve sold a couple of sets of my Stoney Creek magazines through one of the Facebook groups I belong to so I had to get up to the Post Office and find out what the shipping would cost. I thought I might have lost a sale when I told her what it would cost but she has come through with the money after all. I also sold a pattern so it has been a good “Garage Sale Day” from the comfort of home.

I’m just up from a nap; I intended to sleep until 3 PM but when that rolled around I rolled over for another hour. Can’t say as I feel any better but that could just be the feeling I have whenever I nap in the afternoon.

Thursday, July 20, 2017

I started cleaning up in my stitching areas today. But as I put things away I’m also sorting things because we intend to have a garage sale in September. I think I’ve gone through patterns and pattern books ten times but today, as I made my final pass before setting them aside, I still managed to retrieve a few that I decided I wanted to keep. I offered some of my Stoney Creek magazines for sale on one of my cross stitch sites and I’ve actually managed to sell a few. Hopefully more will go but if not they will all go back into the garage sale pile.

I debated about doing some re-arranging in my hand stitching area but decided it was going to be too much work. I have managed to empty out most of the bags I took with me to the Island last week. I still haven’t come across the one that has my cards in it and I know that time is slipping away and a couple of those cards should have already been in the mail.

I had a bit of running around to do (again) today so that ate up most of the afternoon. I had a couple of things to drop off at Cranberry Hall, I had a prescription to pick up, I needed to go to the bank, and I was in search of Rice Krispies that advertised a personalized spoon. I looked in two of the four possible stores but no luck so far; Gavin was hoping to get his own spoon. I still haven’t made it into the new library but as soon as I finish the book I’m currently reading I’ll get up there.

It’s a much cooler day today with a few rain showers – clear of course until I stepped out of the car at my first stop! Pat says there will be clouds and showers for another couple of days and then I can get back to my laundry.

I picked up some buttons today for a knitting project that was finished (except for buttons) a long time ago. I’ll hopefully get them done tonight and then I’ll have lots of packages to take to the mail tomorrow. I think my “nearly finished” basket has a couple of donation sweaters that just need the ends stitched in so maybe I should tackle them as well.