The Last Day of Rest

 Here we are in lovely SUNNY California, only the sun forgot to show its shining face.  It's looked like this since I got here five days ago.  It can't be that long, can it?  Gosh, it seems like yesterday.  

I'm healing up nicely, rarely coughing and not sneezing since Roomba ran around the house not once, but THREE times.  I even dusted ... sort of.  Dusting is one of those things I do only after I can read the writing I scribble on the table.  

Last night was supposed to be the first day of the storm of the century.  We actually even got a warning NOT to be afraid.  Are you kidding me?  So far there's a little breeze, which should ramp up to 35 mph this morning, but not a single drop of water.  Maybe the storm needs a watch.  

It does seem to be hitting the Sacramento area and dumping snow in the mountains.  At least the fairy shrimp will live.  Never heard of them?  A national disaster that has cost the taxpayers millions of dollars because nothing could be built on hundreds of acres since it would kill the fairy shrimp that live in the puddles of water from the rain.  But then there was no rain and they died anyway.  Well actually they went underground and now can come back up because it's raining.  No kidding ... true story. 

As for the other little fish California was trying to save by keeping water OUT of California because tiny fish are more important than people ... well I guess they are goners since the government was forced by the President to let the water go into canals and reservoirs instead of the ocean.  No, I haven't seen the water running yet, but hopefully the farmers will finally be able to grow crops again.

Onward ... my kid loves being in the BIG house where he can play the ball game most of the day and snuggle up with Mom at night.  He's such a GOOD BOY!!

I finally felt good enough to hit the sewing room.  I did more organizing of fabric, whereupon I found this kit I bought somewhere.  I won't mention where, but this store ... they have caused me more trouble than they are worth.  I won't be going back.  The pattern calls for fat quarters ... 18" x 20" of fabric.  I measured these 18 pieces of fabric, to find they are all cut to 11"x18".  That's a LOT less!  They also package these kits so you can't open them or look at the directions.  

I think they skinnied up on the fabric so they could make more kits with the same yardage and charge the same amount.  I wouldn't care if they gave you cutting directions ... but there are none.  I have already had to dig through my own stash to find extra pieces ... and I'm only this far done.  How irritating!

To make it worse, these are 6" squares, not 12", so teeny tiny describes it perfectly.  Cindy will be laughing at me because I'm sewing 1" squares together!!!  I didn't sign up for THAT!!

For lunch, I decided to use up the last of the spinach and a can of mandarin oranges ... the same salad I made in Quartzsite.  I can't believe how good this is ... and filling to boot.  So of course I ate too much, but in my defense, the spinach was "fluffy"!!  

Yup ... this being sick stuff has made me a vegetarian.  I ate the rest of the salad along with the second half of sweet potato for dinner.  Maybe I'll steal some of Cooper's chicken today.

That's it ... I spent many an hour resting on the couch and thinking about all the ways I can get out of doing Elks work this week.  I think I can use the "I'm sick" excuse for at least the next ten days.  After all, they've done without me for the last 45.  

So here's the pictures of the table the fabric was sitting on.  I have many gorgeous pieces-of-art tables, and I think this one came from Jan Mains.  Maybe she will verify that for me.  They are very old, but still in excellent shape.

It's a game table.  You turn the top around, then open it up.  With only two hands, I wasn't able to get it to turn sideways, so I just snapped a picture and folded it back up.  Generally they were made in 1850-60 of mahogany.  Gorgeous, yes?  

And so my day ended less dramatically than expected because the storm seems to be passing us by.  Four days of rain the forecast says, but I'm not holding my breath.  

In the meantime, I'm getting out my armor and girding my loins for the peasant onslaught tonight.  Not really ......... they will all be so happy not to wait in line for two hours that they will all be smiling!!!  It's time for BINGO!!!