Daily Notes- November 11

                                                

I found two more- The one on the left is more tan than the orange it shows up as here.  The one on the right- at first I was so excited because it looked silvery grey but it's actually a grey green.  Which is good.  A quiet color.

My coffee date went well after we found a place that wasn't crowded.  So many people out and about on Veteran's Day.  We found a table away in a corner.  My back to everyone and my companion getting to people watch.  I showed her all the cloth I have been working on.  She is always taken aback by the hand stitching.  Something she thinks is tedious.  I enjoy it and she does not. But otherwise she enjoys seeing my work in person and sometimes she asks to hold it.  Cloth has a very nice feel in your hands and I like tracing the line of stitches in the seams.  I sewed all with black thread.  To make sure it was visible.  For some reason, I enjoy sewing right now instead of reading.

I went up three times to the Attic to find a fabric to go next on the hot pink and gold.  Nothing.  In all that Attic- Nothing.

I always see it as a gift.  To change course.  Someday the cloth I was looking for will show up-- but not now.  Now I have to walk a new path. But I did find these two and more of all the others.  How many Times did I buy these dots?  That tan on the left will go around as soon as I figure out the "breathing" border fabric.

On the wall behind my companion's head- two delightful watercolors of our Town.  One- the corner where the Art Store is located and one of the busy Maine street with cars.  I would enjoy owning both.  I will have to go back when the coffee shop is less crowded and ask about them.

G is having the last of his Chicken Soup.  He had to make more noodles.  I need to think of something to cook next.  I could make a sheet tray of meatballs.  I have ground beef in the freezer- let it thaw in the fridge overnight.  Sounds like a plan.  When I was on my diet I would eat a bowl of just the meatballs as I couldn't have the pasta.  I started to look forward to bowls of meatballs.  Marinara sauce on them of course.  I would not eat a bare meatball.

Well, I sat here long enough and Riley is asleep.  He had two large Milk Bone biscuits for lunch so his tummy is full and we had a walk just before I sat down here.  He looks so tender when he sleeps- not a care in the World.

Oh something funny- a neighbor two doors down was out at his mailbox at 8 am for our first walk of the day.  Green pants fastened at the ankle with something.  Gold sweatshirt with a belt.  Red hat.  I looked and thought- oh no Joanne- too many Hallmark Movies!!!  An ELF!!!!