Day 67 of 2025

It's time to change the clocks, lose an hour 

and get ready for unusually late summer sunsets.

 

Day 346 of 2024

After starting close to Chicago

 and then traveling to another location in Chicago, 

this yarn arrived in Indianapolis. 

As shipments do, it then went to another location in Indianapolis. 

After its delivery date came and went

 I got a notification that it would be delayed. 

Finally after four days of radio silence, 

I see via tracking that it has gone back to Chicago. 

After several more station transfers it heads to Indy again. 

Two more days pass and I have finally received my new yarn. 

Good thing it's so gorgeous. 

 

Day 279 of 2024

Wait. What?

 

Day 152 of 2022

I understand the concept of monitoring the grocery carts

 so people don't decide to take them home,

 but this is a little ridiculous.

 At this point in my journey, still several feet from my car,

 the wheels on the cart locked up. 

I emptied the cart and walked the contents to my car

 after which I had to forcibly drag it up over the curb in order to move my car. 

I guess the next time I will have to go talk to the management

 about expanding the legal boundaries of the cart kingdom.

 I will also try to remember to never park in this aisle

 even if the first spot is open. 

 

Day 125 of 2022

I'll bet she's knitting right now.

 

Day 200 of 2021

Eventually there were six of the large trucks and four of the small ones. 

I guess I really didn't want to get to that street anyway.

 

Day 32 of 2021

When I entered the Vaccine Waiting Room

 my wait to make an appointment was just under 45 minutes. 

I worked my way down to a 15 minute wait when suddenly

 the next update gave me a shocking number. 

According to my calculations, 

my wait would now be just over 82 hours or just under 3 1/2 days. 

Luckily after a few more minutes counting down, 

it returned to a reasonable time of 26 minutes

 and I was able to get an appointment for vaccination in late March.

 

Day 193 of 2020

There are bandits in the back yard.

His operation: 

Crawl up the post to shade structure. 

Crawl upside down to the chain that holds the hummingbird feeder. 

Reach down the best you can

 and tip the feeder enough to spill out as much sugar water as you can. 

Crawl upside down back to the post. 

Shimmy back down the post

 and scamper across the deck to the spilled sweetness. 

Lick all the goodness you can from the deck and chair which are covered. 

Growl at accomplice if he gets close to chair or deck spill. 

He doesn't need it. 

He was waiting directly under feeder 

and is covered from head to tail with sticky liquid.

Repeat until feeder is empty.

Day 178 of 2020

Do you want to hear something ridiculous?

This is one of those fabrics

 that is hemmed along the two long parallel sides and sold on a roll. 

Sometimes I think people use them for kitchen towels. 

I usually use them for table runners. 

All one needs to do to make them useful is to hem the two short sides. 

I bought this one a long time ago, 

so long that I really don't remember when. 

Well, today I found it again on a stack of other fabrics. 

The really ridiculous part? 

It was already pinned and ready to sew. 

This project will probably take a little over thirty seconds to finish. 

After all, I will have to change the thread on my machine.

Day 46 of 2020

Finally. 

This has taken way longer than I was promised.

Day 208 of 2019

This is certainly not the prettiest picture I took today, 

but it certainly was the funniest and most perplexing one. 

Can this really be considered plumbing? 

Does one usually hold things together with a rag tied around parts? 

I am skeptical.

Day 323 of 2018

Who in the world thought this up?

Day 149 of 2018

Safe?  I don't think so.