Daily Notes- November 20

                                       

I think I can do this.  Without crying.  So here goes.  This little work was made mostly on Sunday while watching football.  And waiting for the Vet office to open on Monday morning.  So the cloth holds some sadness. Well, all kinds of sadness.

Most of the cloth is repurposed linen clothing.  Except for the side rectangles from the wonderful Deb Lacativa.  I had just enough, cutting one piece into the two side pieces.  As you can see, I had to do some fussy reverse appliqué at the top but that was a good thing.  I had to really concentrate.  And Law and Order gifted me three in a row episodes that I had never seen before.  Never seen before.  Wow.

And I emptied the big old cupboard in the living room all afternoon.  Old Christmas things.  So many Santas.  All were taken to Goodwill as soon as I had them packed up.  I hope they make some buyers very happy. The thought of packing them up and storing in the Attic-- well, once up there, I would never bring them down again. So better that they go to live in a new house.  I kept a few things that had meaning to me.  Those will be wrapped and packed into the boxes I have been collecting just for this packing.

In the very bottom of the cupboard the four boxes of Swedish crystal champagne flutes.  They have been "lost" for nearly 15 years now.  Why were they in the bottom of that cupboard?  Anyway.  One box will get opened, gently washed and dried and used on Thanksgiving Day.

I just have to get on a ladder and remove the dried flowers from the top of the cupboard and then G and I can take it apart.  Old European furniture was made to be disassembled so it could fit up tight staircases when moved.  We'll take it up to the attic and bring it back down when the Painter is done painting the walls and ceiling.  February or March.

Yesterday G and I went out together for the first time since April (minus the 4 evenings of music theater this summer when daughter dog sat) and dropped things off at Goodwill and then went to have a late lunch at our favorite in town restaurant.  First meal out since April when Riley started having panic attacks and refused to get in the car anymore.  It felt strange at first and then it was good.  Neither of us cried. If DQ had still been open we would have gotten ice cream. We never had any this summer.

And I almost got thru this post..but my face is all wet..  So that's all for today.  Thank you for your emails- They really got me to sobbing but in the VERY BEST of WAYS!!!!