This image arrived in one of the emails I get from people wanting me to "buy stuff". For many many years I was getting emails from people etc wanting me to "make things". Now it's all about "buying things". and I am STILL MAKING Things.
My oatmeal was good- I got about 5 numbers in the daily newspaper sudoko. Which is fantastic. I wrote a check for the Water Usage......have it ready for son to carry out to the mailbox. Finished reading the Bookstore book. Good enough to read again so it's now housed in the tall bookcase "hardback" bookcase. Yes, two bookcases.... Wiggs is a new to me author and seems to have written a dozen books- possibly more. Doesn't mean I will like any of the others especially if they all run along the same theme lines.... that gets boring. People Needing to Be Fixed. I started but won't finish First Time Caller- Borison. It's a good book but I 'm not interested. I didn't make it to page 100.
I looked on line for a book- The Fabric of Life: Lessons in Frugality from Traditional Japan. No Maine library has a copy. I think it's about the mending of old things.....I started mending my old things- favorite clothing, sweaters, bed sheets etc. when I first saw a book about the Japanese Mending. Mindful Mending was the term American's used.
I rarely leave the house so even IF my mending bothered my children---no one sees it out in public. And my mended sweaters bring me great joy when wearing them......even if one of them is actually more mending than sweater at this point in its life. In My Life...the sweater has a long ways to go yet. I have a donor sweater to use to fortify the weak parts. At one point I was even glueing broken bowls and cups back together...because I would have missed seeing them if I put them in the recycling box. Even thought they were unusable......at this point I might be considered un- mendable. That makes me smile.
Another item that made me smile yesterday was FINALLY finding a scrap strip of cloth that "worked" on the little scrap square I had stalled on....now I can add the four strips and start in on a new square. I was reluctant to start a new one.....at my age, unfinished things...well, I'd prefer not to leave behind unfinished things. Or unused things. Or unneeded things. The only cluttered space I enjoy the days is my desk calendar and all it's pasted down images and newspaper crap. This calendar has a Grumpy Lucy (Peanuts) with the title Number One CRAB. I have always BEEN a Lucy..... possibly a number one Crab.
I tried to watch Bones....Nope.....I have out lived Bones....Next up will be Law and Order...which is NOT on everyday as it once was.....I emptied my TiVo stockpile yet again......my kids might think I am "stuck in a rut" but I am amazed at what I am letting go of.......my Son did offer to upgrade my cable selection so I could have the Sports Talk Show back. I might decide to do that when we get closer to Fall.
Right now I have British Soccer to watch. Books to read...Scrap Squares to hand sew. And if nothing else works- I have paper, paints and colored pencils. I uncovered a Tarot book daughter bought me...cards I was supposed to hand color. I didn't......but that might be what I do when Summer Ends.
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