busy week, no sewing

What started out as a promising week (they all are!) got busy and I did zero sewing.

But that's okay because I did get some other things done.

Monday was quite a Monday...I got out of the shower to hear chirping.  I very much hoped it was a cricket, but it was not.  The cats had a bat.  And by had, I mean it was on the ground, but alive.  That made for easy disposal (I just scooped it up and deposited it back outside), but no less stress.

And then I got to the grocery store and my tire was flat.  The same tire that on Friday I had asked the guys at the tire and oil change place to look at.  They assured me it was fixed.  I have two air compressors at home that could fill it up, but none at the store.  Thankfully there was a nearby gas station with an air station, so I pumped it back up before heading home.

As I headed to work later that day, I was worried what else would happen, but the day passed without any additional major events.  Yay for that!

The remainder of the week passed fairly uneventfully (blowing up the tire a few times at home now that I know it's a big problem - eventually I'll remember to call the tire place when they're open (think bankers hours) and get a new appointment - since I bought the tires there, the repair is free, but I just have to coordinate a time when we're both available), but busily.  Though I can't tell you exactly how.

Work? Yep.  Anything else?  Ummmm.....

I did run to my local quilt shop for a back for the baby quilt.  Since both babies I've made quilts for are due in September, it's time to get this done.

It's directional and I'll have to piece it, but I can do hard things, right?

I did spend a little time this past week getting the longarm room tidied up.  It wasn't that bad, just hadn't been used in a while, so I cleared up the cobwebs and wiped down the table on the back where the cats like to hang out.

Today I plan to get both baby quilts quilted.  Fingers crossed the machine behaves.  (But the hubby is here to help me troubleshoot, so there's that.)

I did finish one book.

Last week I had just started it and had high hopes.

It was not a good book.

I mean, maybe 80-ish years ago when it was published it was good, but it was a story about nothing really.  Maybe it made more sense then?

A wealthy young couple is in the middle east, vacationing, and neither is happy.  A male friend is with them to make things more complicated.  They meet another couple (mother and son, but maybe not?) that makes things even more ridiculous.

Eventually they shake the extra people, but the husband ends up with typhoid and (spoiler alert - stop reading here!) he dies.  The wife wanders off into the desert and hitches a ride with a caravan.  The male friend is looking for her, along with a lot of other people, and of course eventually they find her.  But I think she's gone batshit crazy in the meantime.  Maybe she already was.

The descriptions of the landscape were nice.  But otherwise it was all just a bunch of words that I had to slog through.

Would not recommend.

It took all week to get it read because I just couldn't get into it and kept getting distracted and putting it down.

I'll start another tonight.  Hoping for a good one after two not so great ones in a row.

In other news (sorry, no cat photos again), I canned another 14 quarts of tomatoes yesterday, between resetting the pressure switch on the pump so we could have water.

(We have a plumber coming today to fix it - he was here yesterday and reset it, but the problem persists.  The hubby was going to replace it, but couldn't figure out how to get power to the pump off, even turning every off in the fuse box (he thinks), so a professional is in order.)

We also did the canning with the air conditioner off, though we didn't realize it.  In the process of turning everything off and on, the hubby managed to think the breaker for the A/C was not hooked to anything, so though the blower was going, the condenser outside was not.  Thankfully it wasn't super hot, but after a quick run for dinner and the house hadn't cooled one bit, we went investigating.  That one we figured out.

And THEN!  At 4am, I got up to use the bathroom and noticed some things amiss upstairs on my way back up and discovered the cats "pointing."  There was ANOTHER bat hanging from the molding around an upstairs closet.  Being stationary made it easier to swoop him to the floor and scoop him up and get him back outside with his friend from Monday.

So.

I hope we're done with drama for a bit.

Happy quilting!

Katie