Daily Notes- February 4

                                                   

Cloth Two.   Worked on this yesterday and today before we went out for "lunch"  at 2:30.  The colors are muted by the almost 4pm light here in Maine.  Cloudy and no sun today. I've run out of the brown and lavender cloth in the left side squares. I didn't know that (I always feel like I have an endless supply of certain cloth).  Might have to un-sew or that side will be overweight. I was not liking the purple piece until I topped it with the black and white.  Now it doesn't suck all the air out of the room. But it might also get removed.  I got used to moving things around with the paper collages.  Now I'm feeling like I want to constantly move the cloth around.  We'll see how it goes.  Unsewing.

We just now hooked up the tv and the computer but we were told not to get anything closer than 12 inches to the walls or trim- but he'd prefer 18 inches so the paint had good airflow to dry properly and he asked us to wait 3 hours after he left to move anything.    G is already spread out on the couch. Watching tv at the dining table is not something we can do for more than an hour or two and yesterday it was 6 to 8 hours.  I was sewing and G was coloring and both of us felt our backs stiffening up on us yesterday and today. We would have gone to the movies but there is nothing showing that we want to see.

The walls around me are beautiful though it might not be the finish coat and he is priming the baseboards and the doors. And the Painter did one coat on the fireplace mantel just to let me know how it will look.  Looks marvelous.  Thinking about breaking into song- like they do in Summer Music Theater. Marvelous. Delightful. We are still a "work zone" with tarps and plastic etc. but we can sit on the couch and read and watch tv.   Painter will return on Thursday.

I made up a list of fruiting plants and trees for my class on Saturday.  Nice to have a list.  When you go shopping for things.  I used a list sent to me by a gentleman with a large garden and I added to it with my books and reference materials.  I'll go look for my Master Gardener Workbook to see if there was something about fruit trees and fruiting shrubs. That would be lovely.

Well, I am not stopping the daily letter to who ever reads this blog -enough of you sent emails to let me know you read but do not comment.  Which is just fine.  Comments are difficult on most blogs these days.  I can't reply on my own blog.  So anyone who manages to get a comment published is a super star in my book. And thank you for the lovely supportive emails.  So many and I was quite overcome reading them.  You are all so lovely!!! I'll try to deserve them.