Thursday morning

Looks like it's been a week since I posted on my blog.  Which usually means not a heck of a lot going on outside of body aches and pains (which I'm sure you're tired of hearing about).  I know I am.  But it is what it is.

Just got back from taking Maddie to school and I'll be picking them up later this afternoon when she finishes cross country and Hunter finishes tennis.  Until then, my day is free.  Like all  my days, more or less.  I think I'm going to attempt to wash a couple of windows in the living room today including the sliding glass door.  I cleaned them not too long ago but obviously I didn't do it right because the sun shining in the afternoon shows my handiwork.  I tried using a squeegie and vinegar but baloney on that system. Back to Windex and paper towels.

Had to turn the heat on this morning. At least to get the chill off the place. Fingers just won't warm up unless I'm up and doing physical labor. And I'm not in the mood.  At least not yet.  Gonna sit here and yak a bit.  After the windows, I plan on moseying on back to the sewing room.  I'm working on this quilt-as-you go quilt and having to tweek it now and again (because I'm not a blue-ribbon sewer).
Some of my special pattern squares are a teensy bit smaller than the others so I devised a way to adjust them by sewing a thin border around each one that is like the binding that surrounds each square.  I'm pretty sure it will blend in okay.  Will never pass the scrutiny of a real sewer's eye but it will get me through this project and on to another.

My "other" project is just something I'm playing around with using up scraps.  Wanted to also use some cross stitch designs I had made but I'm not exactly sure how this will work.  I'll find out as I go, I suppose. Looks a little nutty but at least it will be an original.

Sometimes I try again to dig into more clues on genealogy files but I continue to be at a standstill on what I'm looking for.  Going to have to try other avenues. Which means Charlie Blankenship. But enough about him.

Jake comes on Saturday to spend the night.  And Catie and Brandon are also spending the night. At least I'll have some pictures to share the next day.  Meanwhile, I'm looking over my rooms one by one and thinking over what I need to set up and away from busy hands.  Which pretty much means everything.  Ha!  We are going to take a trip to Sequim on Saturday afternoon and stop to visit Jenni at her scrapbooking camp near 7 Cedars.

She's had a heck of a bad week what with a UTI, a kidney stone, and side effects from her MS infusion treatments.  Was in ER a couple of days ago and in terrific pain.  I worry about her.

My new neighbor came by yesterday and brought me another crab and a package of mushroom.  I do adore these new neighbors.  They're a little older than previous renters (in their 50s) and are avid Seahawk fans and sport fisherman.  Heather takes a ton of pictures and we've hit it off right away.

Well, I guess I'll just post various old photos in  my collections and stuff I've seen on Facebook since I don't really have much else to share.  I'm tempted to tell you how much my 'new' shoulder has been bothering me but I won't go there today.  Aren't you glad?  Ha!

This is the one and only window that looks out on the front street.  This is my 'computer room' although there is a bed in here too for guests. Anyhow, I took a picture of this because I wanted to show how I found a solution to feeding the birds without having to feed the pigeons, rats, and deer. I hung the feeder from my porch eave.  I do have to get a stool to get up there but I can watch the little birds (the ones I like) and they're coming in all the time.  I had to rehang a window decoration, however, because they keep dive bombing my window and making  me jump.  They'll scatter the seed and invited the rest of the gang in to peck at it below.  Thankfully, the seed is missing the porch so everyone is happy.

This next picture (a lot of these will be repeats) is Andy and Mary and Jake's house in Renton. I found this on google maps and that's my car parked on the street

This is a picture of Bushwhacker Restaurant that has since closed after 40 years in business here in PA.  Sue and Paul were married inside this restaurant in 1996.

Here's a cool thing I saw on Facebook.  Man, I wish this would become a common practice.  It would be great for all those folks who can't get out.  Heck, I'd pay to ride in one myself.

Here's a picture from the PT Leader this week showing sidewalks going in on Sheridan Avenue between 12th & 19th Street.  This is a sign of the times in all  towns I guess.  Sheridan was a much wider road when I was a kid.  Below is 19th Street today and it looks absolutely nothing like the 19th Street where I rode my bike as a kid.

And here's a picture of the hospital neighborhood today.  In the top part of the photo where you see those round trees in the parking lot, is the spot I took a shot of Jenni and Sue when that little mall was first going in.

  

Well, time to hit those windows.  Tsunami alarm is going off and that's definitely a sound you didn't hear in days past.