Daily Notes- July 3rd

Something I selected to put into my Kitchen file.  I don't think we will ever really make over the kitchen.  I can't imagine living thru that-washing dishes in the garage sink, etc.  But deep wide pull out drawers for my collection of pots and pans?  Yes, I would like to imagine that.

Perhaps the upper shelf in the existing pull out drawers can be removed and used to make a divider or two?  And then I will have to find places for all the pots and pans and sheet pans etc.

I walked out to the garden yesterday-after the soccer was over.  I have infant zucchini on several of the plants which are now flourishing out in the sunshine (heat and humidity).  We turn on the sprinkler each day when we turn on the soccer.  My two pickling cucumber pots need to get planted.  They are sending out tendrils to attach to something so they can climb.

I went up into the Magic Attic after Morning Pages and sorted and found more polka dots.  Interesting ones.  They are now in the Magic Closet.  The polka dot baby quilt top is now finished and starched and ironed.  Ready for layering and quilting.  I am tempted to do it myself.  It's been awhile since I have.  Quilted anything.  I used to do fancy things like swirls.  Now I stick to straight lines.  Evenly spaced.  I'm thinking I could use one of the  patterned cloths for the backing--make the quilt two sided. Perhaps the school bus one or the pancake one.

I was "saving" these fabrics.  For something.  I have forgotten what exactly.  Most are nearly 10 or 20 years old now.  I moved away children's quilts to art quilts to not making anything.  Now I am just trying to use this vast amount of fabric up.  And, it hardly makes sense, but now I like solids better than patterns.  Good thing I still love dots.

I am going to the store to buy zucchini for pickles.  I am not going to can the pickles.  Just put them in the fridge and G will eat them all within two months.  But he is out of pickles and needs some for his daily lunch.  The making without the canning is something I can manage.  Who knows I might even feel like canning the jars.  But I am not waiting for my own zucchini to grow.  Remember I made 7 jars in, was it April?  And they are gone.  Riley is giving me the-why aren't we doing something look--he hasn't gone on his walk in three days.  Too hot.  But today he is saying "enough of this--I want my walk".  He is already breathing hard and panting--in the AC cooled house.