Social Distancing, Day 2: Saint Patrick's Day

It's killing me that I didn't get to subtitle this post with Electric Boogaloo, but them's the breaks.

After eating breakfast and doing more dishes, ahem, I enjoyed a lovely hour-long walk. I have a game where I walk in a straight line (or as close to that as possible, I try to avoid sand pits and swimming pools) for 30 minutes to see how far I can get and then spend the next 30 minutes walking home.

Today I made it this far: just a few feet away from the intersection of Mill Plain & Garrison.

 Garrison Square across the street

Holy poop, I'm amazing!

Then I turned around and went home. Found some beautiful Forsythia bushes in full bloom:

People are still using the drive-through at the Starbucks close to the corner of Lieser and Mill Plain:

Random springtime flower shots to remind us that life goes on and things will improve (in case we ever forget that and fall into the abyss of despair, like we do when we have to go to WinCo):

And some shots of downed tree branches that broke during our recent windstorm, to remind us that crap happens and we will rebuild:

 And this is what I found when I came home:

LATER: The cooking and baking commenced!Corned beef and cabbage, bangers and mash and gravy, soda bread, and apple cake were on the menu.

A Happy Shiny Day in the Life of My Sink

Otherwise entitled, "FlyLady Makes Me Obsessed With Dishes"

9:45 AM:


Later I unloaded the dishwasher, loaded it again, and cleaned off more of the counter. These were taken at 1:25 PM.


I unloaded and loaded the dishwasher one more time, then washed the pots and pans, around 4:00 PM.


All this sink-shining, dish-doing and photographing inspired me to really clean the kitchen up. These were taken at 6:00ish.
Sink: Still shiny.

Illness

Roz woke me up around 6:20 this morning with, "I gotta throw up!" I helped her get to the bathroom on time, but she landed some on her pillow. Since then she's thrown up two more times. Today will be a big laundry day, I can tell.

8:15 - Puke #4

11:15 - Puke #5

All done. She ate some toast and drank some water, took a nap, woke up later and was pretty much fine the rest of the night. We'll see how she does for school tomorrow.

I didn't get much done, but a couple loads of dishes in the dishwasher and some laundry and the entry picked up. I worked on the first Christmas stocking this morning.

Pattern Ordered

Today I ordered the pattern for the perpetual calendar. Total cost was $5.98. It will arrive between January 11 and January 27.

Later I cut out the first piece of fabric for a Christmas stocking. Hope this works!

Carol and Kristy looked through my cross stitch magazines and books to find something they wanted me to stitch for Carol's piano bench. They decided on a design from the "Cattitudes" book - "Life is like a piano, etc." Carol will measure her piano bench when she gets home and tell me the measurements so I can buy the fabric.

I also gave Carol the framed "Music" piece I did back in Logan. She saw it in the magazine and liked it, and I had it in my closet. I haven't hung it on the wall for a long time because it doesn't really match my taste anymore, but it's so pretty and nicely framed, I hated to toss it. I'm glad she can have it. She and Kristy are so nice about liking my projects. :)

I Feel Cool Today

Fabric bought: After the Primary activity this morning, I went to Michael's and bought a 30x36 piece of off-white 18-count Aida. It's huge. It should make at least one stocking, front and back, and maybe more. It was $7.99 which I think is reasonable for a stocking.

Primary magnet board: The lesson for tomorrow called for a large chart to be made that will be used throughout the year, and I had no posterboard, so I took the metal "spitting prohibited" sign I was going to give to Shelly (but got bent) and sewed a little white fabric case for it, then attached the picture of Jesus (in a page protector) and wordstrips with pins. I'll also use it for posting song lyrics in a page protector on back, and since it's metal, I can buy magnets and post flannelboard figures, etc. I'm pretty proud of myself for that little idea. :)

Also, Bella and I cleaned the green bathroom, finally. ;)