Saturday ... A Day of Rest

A good Sunday morning to you!  I've never had such crazy nightmares as I did this morning.  I definitely need to watch my P's and Q's.  Unfortunately however, I won't be going to church to ask for help.  Instead, there is an Elks meeting being held in another town that I have been summoned to.  Truly, it's a nothing meeting, but they promised DONUTS if I showed up.  Who could turn THAT down!!

The first order of the day was to set JAMES in motion, cleaning the floors.  I tripped over him three times before kicking him across the room.  He went back to his station in disgust.  Maybe we'll try again tomorrow.

I fixed breakfast first in spite of the donuts.  That will be lunch.  This is the cranberry cinnamon bread from THAT store.  Gosh this stuff is tasty.  Alas, I won't be getting any more loaves of it soon, so I'm savoring every bite.  Cooper and I share the egg ... one scrambled and WELL cooked.  Otherwise, he makes a big mess on the couch.

I had two things on the menu for this day.  Putting my new license plates on the Van was first on the list.  Remember that Canadian screwdriver?  Was it a Robertson?  Anyway, I lucked out finding a small cash of weird screwdriver tips for my Ryobi drill and was able to get the back plate on.  The included screws were 1/4" long.  I doubt it will last long.

The front plate was another problem altogether.  NO screws were included and the holes were teeny tiny.  Lucky again, I save screws and general crap in my tool drawer.  I found four that worked, but again, I don't know how long they will stay on.

Next up ... the reason my lawn is brown in back instead of green.  That spot by the rose bush?  That's where I got bit by now a total of NINE fire ants.  Little buggers are long dead after a nice drink of gasoline.  Nothing else works .... so .......    

When I dug up the sprinkler, I found the ants had set up housekeeping not only around it, but INSIDE it.  The entire sprinkler head was completely full of ant carcasses, allowing no water to escape.  

I threw away the top and installed a new one.  YAY ... water!!!  Now maybe the lawn will green up a bit.

It was way too hot to do anything the rest of the day except sew.  By the way, I actually DID turn the AC down to 79 degrees.  I may have to go lower and stay longer in Quartzsite this winter.  OH DARN!!

Here's the newest quilt called Publick House.  I think I bought this at least 8 years ago when I was passing through Reno.  The good thing about fabric is it never goes BAD.

I spent an hour or so cutting up parts and pieces.  It always looks so daunting when I start.  At my age, this takes a LOT of concentration and triple checking the directions.  You never want to make a mistake because they never include enough material to fix it.  Oh yeah ... everything is labeled so I don't sew the wrong one to the wrong one.  Which of course I did ... and had to take out a yard of stitching.  Then I labeled everything.

Just for kicks, I spent the evening making peanut butter cookies.  I'm not sure how these are going to taste.  I usually put peanut butter chips in them ... but I am OUT!  DRAT!!  I had to use chocolate chips.  They just don't taste the same, but as you know, SOMEONE has to eat them so as not to be wasteful!!

And so I'm off this morning to the 10:00 meeting that was changed to 9:30 last night at 9:00.  I'm already running late.  I hope everyone has a fabulous Sunday!!!