The lost week...

This is not my photo.  It took it from my pinterest page, and it was for an Etsy item that is no longer for sale, nor can I find the shop it came from.  It reminds me of my mother, because this is the type of clown doll she made for the church bazaar.  She had the whole family making yo-yos and pom-poms for them.  I don't know why I'm using it for this post, except I'm feeling a bit like he looks...kinda worn down.  :)

Well there was no What I'm Reading Wednesday yesterday, because I haven't been reading a lot.  I'm still working on No Time to Spare by Ursela K. Le Guin, and parts of it are pretty deep and require some thought, so I don't read more than one essay a day usually.

Last Friday was our book club here at our house.  I was pleased with how much work I got done around the house, and I haven't re-messed things up yet.  My goal is to keep the dining room table and the kitchen table clear and unburied by mail and packages and mending, etc.  :)  And to continue decluttering, of course.

My knee was extremely painful last weekend (too much cleaning!), and mostly I've just tried to stay off of it.  I had to resort to taking Tylenol and Advil (not at the same time).  Just lying still it was aching badly.  I'm writing this on Wednesday night, and it is much better, but I want to give it the rest of this week to heal before I tax it.  I'm thrilled that I am able to be mobile again without too much pain.

Today I went to a quilt fabric store in the city with my friend Catharine, and we registered to participate in a year long quilt-along that meets monthly.  It's a cute chicken block that we will be making each month, with each block using different colors and prints.  I did buy three non-related pieces of fabric today, and one of them is the perfect color to match another piece I already owned to make a baby quilt.  I felt like it would while I was in the store, and when I got home and put them side by side they were perfect together.  THAT doesn't always happen!

On the way home Catharine and I were talking about a quilt that she is wanting to get finished using fabric inspired by the Outlander books and TV series.  I had also bought the fabric back when she did, but had never settled on a pattern to use, so the fabric remained in the craft room somewhere.  Since Catharine was missing enough fabric to make borders, I told her to come over and we could look through the craft room to try to find my fabrics that matched.  We got back to her house to pick up my car, and I came home to start looking while she followed shortly.  I was ecstatic to find it before she even got here, and I had several prints for her to choose from to finish hers.  

Carey's birthday is in a few days, so I guess I will make him a pie.  He's been working hard to get a fall garden put in.  Oh, and trying to rid us of a pesky, nighttime visitor.  Rudy got sprayed by a skunk TWICE last week!  Luckily we had some odor eliminator that really worked pretty well.  Between that and the air purifiers running non stop, the house smelled fine by book club day.

Yesterday was Rudy's annual vet appointment for vaccines, etc.  Good report.  We saw a new vet in the office, and he was surprised by Rudy's age.  He said he would have guessed he was several years younger.  (And he probably would probably have guessed that Carey and I are several years older.  Both of those assumptions would have been due to Rudy's constant motion and exuberance!  Exhausting.)

Well, this is kind of rambling.  I didn't have a clear idea for a post, I just wanted to reach out, and record the events of the week.