Daily Notes- October 3rd

Grape juice results.  The far left is the cheesecloth I used to strain the second batch of grape pulp.  Not usable for quilting but a lovely color which I had hoped to get in this dye experiment.  The next left is white soft old linen and then next a stiffer less worn linen and the last a pale blue linen.  All from Goodwill shirts.  Mostly LLBean camp shirts that have darts and skimpy sleeves.  I bought them and then figured it out.  I hate wearing them.  You can see the dart in the farthest right cloth.  But the cost was far less than for a yard of "new" linen.   I don't have these colors in my collection.  I can see some of them working nicely with Karen's dye samples.

I over dyed a few pieces of an old linen robe that DebL had done some dye work on.  Too yellow for me.  And now--why I don't know- the grape has made the pieces a coral orange.  Don't like that either. I had hoped for green.  You know- yellow plus blue equals green.  No.  I'll give it a second chance after it dries.  Hopefully less orange.

This will be my last post for a few days.  Our son texted this morning (6 am his time) that he was boarding his first flight of the day and would text again from his stopover in Atlanta.  I''l be back here with news when he departs.

G vacuumed all the floors in the house and also the vestibule.  He did an amazing job of it.  I continued to wash clothing and towels and bedding.  I just have the dining room table and the kitchen to clean.  Then I will Swiffer the floors with wood cleaner.  Bona.  G is still eating breakfast and reading the newspaper.  

It's cold in the house this morning and I may need to start wearing my sweaters and turning on the radiators.  I already have transitioned to the corduroy pants and thermal long-sleeved shirt.  And socks.  The sun is shining but it's a cold Sun.  I will be taking my linen camp shirts up to the Attic and bringing down more long sleeved thermals. I hardly wore the short sleeved linen shirts this year- I hardly was outside much. But that's the way it goes with reactive asthma.  Now the cold air will be hard for me to breath.

Grace, I watched a PBS show on the fires out West last night.  They showed the Camp Fire and how it grew in a matter hours.  The entire show- I thought of you and all the others who lost homes, pets and lives in the fires. The phone camera pictures of people stuck on the road in their cars. Then I watched a show on Octopus and how smart they are.  I loved watching them figure out things.  It was nice the station lined them up like that.  One that was terrifying and then one that was gentle and even funny.  But the fire images stay with me.