I had a much calmer day today – took the dogs to the field-
Moved more stuff from upstairs – but nothing like that huge chest of drawers.
A reader said I should watch the scene “pivot” from Friends and it was spot on – I laughed and laughed. Another reader suggested a scene with Lucy and Ethel. Also true.
The blog definitely had some issues recently – started last night and I tried hard not to panic but I sat with my IPad in bed trying everything I could think of. By mid morning today it was back to normal. Sigh. After I complained about readers ignoring the comments the blog gods punished me, I guess. Haha! Without the comments this wouldn’t be any fun for me at all.
Reader photos
I can’t wait to get back to my sewing machine but don’t want to give up one single minute of porch time. It is so nice tonight that at 10:30 pm I’m writing this in the porch!!
The picture of the cornfield mist was fascinating, along with the humidity increase. I hadn’t even thought of my old pattern tissues and using them for tissue in packages. Thanks for the idea, Dale. Several book titles I wrote down. I just got Vol. 1 “Unselected Journals” by Beth Brower from the library.
Happy Birthday to the nonagenarians mentioned today in the blog!
Jan
Spent time this morning ready the blog for the month of August, for some reason my routine has changed and the month has flown by. Just like your comment that the days roll by the older you get. I might add to that that you slow down and don’t get things done as fast either. Hard to believe it is almost September.
My comments on the August blog:
So many wonderful quilts the 2 quilts at the fairs that grabbed my attention were not traditional quilts. The windmill quilt was perfect and looked like a picture. The duck with the umbrella was a cute happy quilt. Alice’s red, white and blue quilt was lovely, I love patriotic quilts. The garage sale quilt was a steal at what ever she paid, all of that hand piecing and quilting made it a true treasure. It is a beautiful quilt and I have quilt envy😂. Connie’s log cabin in neutrals was different but really calming. If I live long enough I may make one. And your folksy chicken quilt I love and wouldn’t sell it either if I were you.
I’ve missed the birthdays but the 98 year old lady looks fantastic. I hope she has a wonderful 99th birthday tomorrow. My Iowa born husband turns 90 tomorrow. Something about Iowa gives longevity!
Is Elderberry syrup like Elderberry wine? My paternal Grandmother made Elderberry wine.
Good thing you moved the furniture before your hernia surgery because it probably made it bigger!
Loved the Mayo joke😂.
I love Triscuits and have never eaten wicker furniture so I can’t attest to them tasting the same.
Your poor chicken looks like she has been plucked. You need to scold the chicken yard bully!
And last but not least the water expelled by the corn explains why Iowa is so humid.
Connie: tell your husband Happy birthday from all of us! And give him a great big hug!
That’s a nice rug on the loom, but the beautiful, color coordinated dog and cat, looking so contented together, are what makes the picture wonderful.
Funny joke, Mary.
At least the ads for drinking olive oil are finally gone. They were disgusting. Almost as bad as the earmites ads.
My neighbor gave me some beautiful peaches the other day, so I’m planning on making a peach crumble today, and making stuffed chiles from the poblanos in our little garden. I don’t usually cook so much (rather spend the time sewing), but want to use the fresh produce while we have it.
Interesting fact about corn and humidity, who knew? I so enjoy the blog about nothing and I don’t care. I made a trip to a local quilt shop to find some Woolies Flannel for a backing and found a basket of Country Threads patterns marked down to $1 each, needless to say I bought one of each. Fun to read and hope to make one day. I already own a few books and patterns from shopping at your shop. The owner knew all about the shop and had even stopped once on her way to Kansas City show where you were vending. Both of the kids are traveling for work this week so we are getting the mail and keeping 3 lawns mowed and even applied some weed n feed to them. Weather has cooled and we are trying to spend time outside while the air quality is good and cool. Fall is in the air. Need to think about cleaning up some flowerpots.
I’m adding to the chorus of best wishes & prayers for your hernia surgery next week. I hope all goes smoothly & that you’re back in the saddle (golf cart?!) post haste (acknowledging activity restrictions).
We’re enjoying the promise of Autumn here in SC. I’ve actually put a flannel shirt on the past couple of days.
I’ve noted your advice to face a ransacked sewing room. I had started a project to put my fabric on comic book-sized boards (like mini-bolts) but that proved too tedious for me. Now I’m refolding (& theoretically purging) using a piece of foamcore as a template to attempt to make uniform stacks. I have a problem getting started sewing in the midst of disorder. I am overdue getting a bunch of baby quilts done. This has been a bountiful year in that department!
Love the misty corn photo – so eerie!!
Enjoy the cooler weather. Hope you’re having a great day, all!
I only had two ads today to close, but usually when I comment and it posts my comment, I will get a whole bunch more to close. The jokes are funny. I’ve been cutting out fabric while at my mom’s. We move in Sept 12th and then on Sept 22 I am at a quilt retreat for 4 days. I will really enjoy the retreat after unpacking. I can’t wait to get my new quilt room organized so I can sew. It may not be till October. Thank goodness for the quilt retreat. A week after we move in we will be celebrating my MIL’s 90th birthday and we are hosting 31 family. It will be busy but I am ordering sandwich trays and all the family will bring stuff. I will use paper plates, which isn’t my normal but way easier this time. We also thought it is a good thing to host and then everyone can see the farm. I won’t ask for a card shower as it’s too expensive to mail to Canada. Have a wonderful day everyone.
Teresa – so how much is it to mail a card to Canada? I sure don’t care – maybe closer to the time you could give me her address?l
Mary, I don’t care about the postal cost to Canada ! Go for it!
Joy – I don’t either / I’ll talk to Teresa
Hi Mary , it’s $1.70 to mail from the USA to Canada. That would be really nice of you. Her actual birthday is Sept 28th. We are just celebrating a week early as it is the day everyone can make it. I will sent an email to you.
Thank you again.
Teresa, this is a milestone birthday and the postage cost is a lot less than most of us waste without a thought. Let’s celebrate!!
Pat – I agree!
Teresa – not one of us who want to send a card care a bit about $1.70 so about 2-3 weeks ahead will you please email me some info, the address, a photo / ok? Promise!
Mary, I will do that next week I promise. You are right 90 is such milestone. Thank you.
Teresa – I wish more readers would tell me about 90+ friends or relatives having birthdays. I’d send. Card to every single one of them!
Teresa, what will your by-line be once you move from port Coquitlam? I looked up the pronunciation so when you messaged the blog I could say it correctly! I will send a birthday greeting as well, the postage amount is manageable! Today I made three 9X9” size pans of apple crisp and one 9X13” pan. Where did summer go? I had to go to the grocery store just to get oatmeal as there was none in its usual place! That price has gone up, $5.49 for Quaker Oats quick oatmeal. I needed it. Fortunately the store had it! The apple crisp tastes great! Hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend, my hometown, Tracy, Minnesota is having its 98th-year celebration of Box Car Days! Tracy was a great hub for the C&NW railroad when there were passenger trains. My dad worked on the C&NW freight line and luckily I did have a train ride with my mother and sister Garnet we rode from Tracy to West Bend, WI, to visit my aunt and uncle and their kids. This was probably in 1955 or 1956. We got there in one day, it is not that far from WB to Chicago, which was the destination for the passenger train. It was a regular route. I would love to take an Amtrak train ride but it will be costlier than when my dad worked for the railroad for sure. It would be fun to go to Glacier and stay in one of the lodges that James J Hill and the Empire Builders built! The hummingbirds are still visiting my feeders. They’ve all been washed out and have new sugar-water.
Cynthia – passenger trains! I went to Mpls with my grandma on the Rocket from Mason City when I was a kid – I still have the picture – I wore my very best Sunday School dress! Different from today.
Cynthia, how sweet of you to look up the pronunciation of Port Coquitlam. I will be Teresa from Maple Ridge, BC. Probably 7 or 8 years ago my mom and I went to visit my son in Troy, MT. We went on a four day road trip to Glacier National Park. I will never forget how beautiful those lodges were. I’ve never seen anything like them. I would like to go again and spend more time there. I’ve never been on a passenger train but my husband went from Reno to Winnemucca to visit our son he absolutely loved it and wants to go from Sacramento to Elko , NV to where our son lives now. Our son a mine engineer so that’s why all the moving.
After you asked for comments the other night, I went to leave one – and there was no comment section on my end! That made me chuckle – the fates will insert themselves any time they wish! LOL!
Glad to see it’s back – enjoy this pleasant weather! There is definitely a fall feel here in east central Ohio… we’re really dry/droughty here and hope that the chance of rain for today comes to fruition. (We would like good weather for Saturday however, as our Buckeyes take on Texas in Columbus – the whole state is gearing up, I think!)
I finished Block 8 of Corey Yoder’s BOM last night – 4 more to go. I’ll send a photo when I get them all finished. I usually shy away from this type of thing, but thought this one looked like a good way to use some pre-cuts I have. SO good to get some sewing time!
I enjoy your blog very much and have loved your patterns for many years
The jokes at the end make me laugh out loud and then I read them to my husband and we both laugh
Thanks!
The rug reminds me I need to finish the woven placemat I’ve started, but I haven’t finished. It is definitely in the UFO category. Sewing on a top right now. Almost finished.
I like the jewelry ads, but the ads with mites crawling in ear canals and nostrils I can do without.
I read the Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion, Volume 1-8, by Beth Brower this summer. I miss being in her world. She is funny and has some great friends. Currently reading Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner.
Prayers for all the blog readers.
Lynn – I’m going to check out your book choices. I want to start a new rug for my bathroom and just can’t get to it. Maybe this winter.
I love the little funnies you have been putting at the end of your posts! They always give a giggle or a laugh out loud. Still don’t have an appointment for a breast biopsy, but I do have an office visit scheduled with the colonoscopy doctor for Sept. 22.
Praying for a quick recovery for you from hernia surgery next week!
Paula – hard to get an appt, isn’t it? BUt I would think a breast biopsy would rank pretty important. What about your land issue?
Richard is attending a meeting on that land topic right now. But the proposed route through our land is the most direct and uncomplicated, so I don’t hold out hope that the state will select one of the other seven proposed routes.
Paula – I’m so sorry / I’d be just sick if the state wanted to take some of my land! Let us know – I hate it for you
Loving this weather. Good days for walks. If I had a screened porch, I would use it until I couldn’t. Cold weather is around the corner and then it will be pining for heat again. Vicious circle. I hate heat and can’t do much in it.
Fran – and this morning the porch is perfect – like it went back to summer. I hate cold and love heat
Mary it wouldn’t be much fun opening my iPad each day and not seeing a blog post from you. Reading the comments all share is so nice to hear what others are doing with their days. I hope you share your “dresser moves” for many more years ahead. Lots of ads to click the three dots to close them this morning.
Kathy – our dresser move, now that I think back on it, was ridiculous! What made us think it would be a piece of cake? Like most things I do, I just dive in, never expecting that I can’t do it – haha!!!
Mary, your mind says sure I can do that, and your body says ‘you’re going to be sorry’ 😂😂
We’re from that era that thinks it’s easier to do it ourselves without asking anyone else. Thank God you had Becky come over and be a part of your Ethel and Lucy job. Some day you’ll become wiser – HA! 🤦♀️
Lots of ads to close. Those cookies know what I buy. There is one ad today that refuses to close. It is for some product or program to stop smoking. I never started!
This is definitely porch sitting weather in Wisconsin. There will be plenty of days ahead that will be ideal for staying in and sewing!
Mary, I love that you love reading our comments as much as I love reading your blog….. I’ve been in such a funk, it really lifts my spirits. It has been so stinking hot here it has evaporated my motivation to do much of anything…. I’m really looking forward to being able to sit out on in my screen porch – unfortunately I think it will be months yet…. but, then I am grateful I don’t have to deal with snow…… everything has its + and – I suppose. Still doing cross stitch — my sewing room needs such a clean that I really need to suck it up and get in there. I know that will help get my sewing juju back. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Does anyone have a good suggestion of where to donate old sewing (clothing) patterns besides Goodwill? Otherwise that’s where they are going.
Donate to guild (if there is one), thrift stores (besides Goodwill), church rummage sales.
Lynette – since it’s so hot you should stay inside and clean your sewing room. That clean sewing room will be such fun to sew in! That will get your sewing juju back – I can’t get motivated if my room doesn’t even leave me room to work. I’ll start the log cabin quilt around mid September – maybe that could be your goal to join me?
I want to have a top finished by mid September. I just need to make the dashing to join the blocks. It has been laid out on a bed all summer. I have 2 new kittens that love to play on it😊. Maybe we could all be motivated to either start something or finish something by then.
You get in a funk during the summer, but we do in Iowa too because of the heat and humidity! It was extreme this summer! So bad we didn’t sit in our sun porch either! While you r enjoying your sun porch we are bundled up in winter gear 🤣. Hope you get your sewing mojo back.
I don’t think thrift stores take sewing patterns, and I’m not sure where you would bring them. My husband takes me into putting mine in the garbage a few years ago. His comment, you’ll never use these again! And, I wouldn’t have, but they were part of my history 😵💫. In truth, I have not missed them at all!
Hang in there, your weather will be beautiful shortly!
Sewing patterns make wonderful tissue in gifts.
The corn 🌽 is so lush and beautiful! I wish my popcorn had done well.
I had the dreaded physical therapist yesterday and she acted like she didn’t know what I was talking about from last week. No apology or concern my knee was so aggravated and painful. I will be so glad when this is over!
I’m so sorry you have a PT professional who won’t listen. My doctor who did my knee replacement gave me exercises to do and recommended that I walk in a box store to get my exercise in. I didn’t do PT. Hope your gets better.
Yes, my doctor said this is why he orders 3 weeks home health care before coming to physical therapy center. Your knee has been through trauma and needs to rest. I have my usual nicer lady tomorrow. I was doing really well too….
Pamela – but did she go easier on you? I’d report her to the manager of the facility. PT is not supposed to be that painful. It’s hard for sure but it’s got to be hard to be effective. Hang in there! Hugs to the girls.
Thank you! Yes, she was a little easier but still had an attitude. Penny and Lucy send hugs and purrs 😻. Barney is just so handsome 😻!
Hi Mary, that joke tonight was funny, who thinks them up?Plodding along ,sewing leaves on a quilt for a friend’s daughter who has just lost her fiance to liver disease, very sad. Podiatrist tomorrow, diabetic checkup with doctor on Monday, thank goodness for quilt meeting on Saturday! Take care everyone ,best wishes from Sandy
Sandy – I have no idea who thinks up the jokes – readers send them to me. Sewing by hand? Good of you to do it but yuck – Dr. appts? The story of our lives at this age.
I understand about not wanting to give up porch time—-I read on my back deck until 10 PM and I am in heaven.
Your blog about nothing is the best. I don’t comment very often, but I am here every day 🙂
Dorothy in W WA
Dorothy – where do you live that you can read till 10 like me? If you’re outside with a light, don’t the bugs become intolerable? And what are you reading?
So, it was a Facebook problem last night that I couldn’t comment. That’s an amazing fact about corn and humidity. Christine from AZ comment reminded me to click on the ads. I went back and did that. They were for Michael’s and mattress companies. (I purchased a new mattress online last night. The memory foam one has to go after 11 years.) Back to the ads, I’m so glad that the mice ones are gone!
Martha – not actually Facebook – WordPress which is the program I use for the blog.
I so enjoy these posts every night just before heading to bed. The photos are wonderful to see but your little jokes at the end are priceless.
While picking up stuff that had blown into the yard this afternoon, I came across something I’d never seen before. It looked like a mouse had dug a hole about 4″ side to side and deep. It had been filled with grass and hair. There were 4 dead mice on the grass. Now they are in the garbage! It’s hard to be a mouse?
Something new for today? Take care. Betty in Rapid City
Betty – the nest sounds almost too big for tiny baby mice but I don’t know what else it could be and whatever killed the mice didn’t eat them? Hmmmmm
I told my neighbor about the dead “mice” and he thinks they are moles! Don’t believe I’ve ever seen a mole so I’ll have to look it up on the computer. Maybe there were more and whatever killed them ate some of them? Burning question of the day!
Betty – moles dont have long tails like mice – I’ll bet they were moles
I think the critters were VOLES. At least a couple pictures of them on the Internet pictured them with pointy noses. We’ll have to see what comes next.
We’ve got at least a couple deer up here in our end of town. They have been on the west by the hills for years. Very interesting to watch. They’ve just done some simple pruining of my geraniums, so far. Kind of nice to look out the kitchen window when I get up and see a deer looking in at me!!
Take care. Betty in Rapid City
One more thing, Mary. Did you take the drawers upstairs separate from the chest of drawers????? At least that would make the rest a bit lighter. Or is something to remember next time?
Betty – oh the drawers were definitely out – we’d never even been able to slide it over the floor otherwise. I wish I knew what it weighed.
I have to tell you I didn’t click on the ads tonight – they’re for post-partum underwear. That might’ve been interesting 35 years ago, but not now. The algorithm must’ve confused me with someone else 😂
I never knew corn could cause so much humidity! And I love your ending joke.
Phoenix had a big “haboob” (what we used to call dust storms when I was growing up) Monday. Plus rain! But happily it didn’t turn into a mud storm.
We watched our grandson for the day and he’s finally entered the terrible twos (at 2 and a half). I had to laugh when we were ready to take him home and he marched into the garage, grabbed his little wheelbarrow, and started wheeling it down the road, saying “come on, Nana, we walk!” He was very angry when I told him 7 miles was too far to walk.
I think just hitting the delete for each ad is enough, you don’t need to open them. Makes for a nicer reading experience, too!
The ads are sometimes sewing related, but sometimes? Crazy stuff!
Carol – thanks for telling readers again that they just have to close the ad – not open and read.
I’m very glad to know that you just have to carefully click the 3 dots and not open the ad. All the ads I saw today were the scammy “Click here to continue” ads, with no real product shown.
Here in North Carolina, we’re having slightly cooler, less humid weather. And the the 7-day Atlantic forecast shows no big storms for now. But the peak month for hurricanes is September.
I’ve been looking through an inherited box of really old patterns – Needlecraft and Hearth & Home magazines from the 1920s and 30s, some clippings with crochet patterns or quilt block designs, and several cardboard hand-quilting templates. Some of the clippings have sections continued on a different page – the two pieces of paper have been hand-sewn together with a few long stitches.
Dot – a treasure to look thru!! Hansen – never heard of that
Christine – haha! You didn’t want to buy any post partum undies????
Christine, aren’t little kids the funniest?!? My greats keep me in stitches with the things they come up with