Sadly, families are often separated by great distances, time together is fleeting and often rare. Each of us busy in our own bubbles, living our lives to the best of our abilities. For a moment as I was pondering where that thought would lead, I started to stay unlike in times past. But truthfully, when you really think about it, families have always separated. If they hadn't countries wouldn't have been discovered, migration would never have happened, shoot go back to the Bible, or further, folks have always been moving and changing. It's simply life.
As I jumped back into the doings yesterday, it occurred to me that I have one month from tomorrow before my craft event. I needed to stop being frozen by fear and really start working. I dug around in the garage and pulled out the old fan blades, I still have a few that I need to strip the hardware off of so that I can clean, sand and paint them. I have seven of them in progress at this moment. Need to wrap those up first. I simply ran out of counter space. This morning I need to pull out the saw and do a bit of cutting, I am using up some old scraps of wood to make stems and hat brims.
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| work in progress... |
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| work in progress... |
Waste not, want not.
I also found myself stitching for a bit while watching a bit of television with my sweet hubs as we wrapped up the day. Almost have another hat finished and ready to tag.
It made me smile yesterday and today when my sweet hubs woke me with a cup of amazing coffee and asked if I was going to be working today. He was being so supportive and sweet. He knows that I work hard taking care of him, the pups and our suburban homestead. It was his way of acknowledging my creative side, of supporting my dreams.
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| Beau definitely disapproved of mom being gone |
While I was in Arkansas, instead of relaxing and taking in a couple of movies and a few hours at the cigar lounge like he had planned, he spent his time making things easier for me. He cleaned up the cantry and added another set of shelves. He rearranged the man cave and my work space to give me better access in a way that didn't cause me pain. He cleaned up the entire house so I didn't have to worry about it when I got home.
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| work room improvements |
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| there is a middle shelf now |
He started to put a light that he had gotten me into my sewing studio, as I had voiced a concern with how dark it was on the one side of the room. One step into the mayhem in there and he walked right back out, terrified of moving something, knowing that while it looks like a chaotic mess at the moment I know where everything I am working on is. To be fair, I walked in yesterday morning because he was hoping to finish his honey do list and put it where it needed to go and even I turned around and said not today. Sometimes, you have to honor your limits. We both respected that.
After all of that, he even got 11 clocks made for the event. I am fairly positive he didn't get much rest in, I am equally positive that I appreciated all of that effort more than he could even imagine.
I was catching up on the garden a bit yesterday and today, harvesting, cleaning, getting ready to plant a fall garden. I think I am finally going to jump in and plant garlic. It's been on the list forever, just never felt confident enough to try it. Tomorrow I think I will harvest what is left of the potatoes, today was the green beans. They are pretty much spent. All the rain of the past two weeks has definitely stressed some of the garden to the point that harvest season is just about over.
We all know how sad it makes me to see the garden fading away each year. Today I will slice up a few more of the masses of tomatoes and get them in the dehydrator. We've discovered they are amazing as a veggie chip and that way there is no waste. I am also going to use the last of the green beans and add them to a mixture of veggies and make up a huge pot of veggie soup. I'll can most of it, so that in the cold of winter we can remember the flavors of summer.
I also harvested a fairly large amount of jalapeno's. Not enough for cowboy candy, but definitely enough to make up a batch of jalapeno jelly. And I am starting to run low on that. The colors and flavors will pop, it will taste great and look so pretty.
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| do you see him? |
I don't know if you can see my little friend from the garden, this year has been full of surprises, including the baby copperhead snake I almost ran over while mowing last week. This had to have been the biggest dragonfly I have ever encountered. Easily the size of my palm. The green bean hanging beside him is over 5 inches long. He was resting in my green beans as I reached in to harvest. I'm not sure which of us was more startled.
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| Belle deciding sitting on the humans is okay... |
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