March 26: It Was Time

Yesterday afternoon, I worked on the patio a bit.  Moved a few pots around, contemplated what I'd like to plant in the empty ones, blew off the porch and patio again...And then John came along and mowed and blew loads of stuff onto the porches and patio.  I loathe doing a task and then finding it was all for naught and it definitely all went to naught yesterday afternoon.  Phooey.

While he was mowing, I started a freezer inventory and realized that my big stock up last month is probably going to carry me into April, but we'll definitely need to restock meats.  I dumped a few vegetable items that I finally determined I absolutely was not going to eat. I'd only been holding on to them for two or three years.  It was beyond time to empty that space.  I made note of items I really need to use.  Mostly though I got a good idea of what I have.  

I still need to inventory the bottom basket where I keep all the frozen fruit that we're not using.  I should start making smoothies for myself now that warmer weather is coming in and use some of that up.  And I suppose I could make a fruit crisp which would use considerably less sugar than a cobbler.

I ended up eating my supper alone.  I made Mississippi Chicken in the slow cooker and served it with Mashed Potatoes and English Peas.  We didn't eat the whole chicken breast half between us.  I plan to take the leftover meat, spread it on slider rolls and top with Pepper Jack cheese, which sounds really good to me.  

I like to eat before 5:30 and closer to 5 p.m. if I can so that I can eat at about 9 a.m.   Am I losing weight?  I've no idea.  John and Sam both have said I look as though I've lost weight, but I haven't weighed nor measured myself.  I'll have to judge by how my pants fit which seems to be as good a gauge as any.  Enough of that...

I woke this morning with an up and at 'em attitude.  I'd truly thought I'd go to the grocery today, but I've made no move to leave home at all.  I felt my room was not looking as well as it might, so I kicked myself into high gear and put things away properly.  Which led me to find the small stack of mending I set aside in January.  I'd forgotten said stack of mending included a pair of jeans that I needed to patch, and that explains why I thought I suddenly had no jeans.  

I took that stack of mending and put it on the dining room table where it was in full view.  Then I cleaned the kitchen, the living room and removed a leaf from the dining room table.  I set myself up to do that mending after that and got it all done, most all hand sewing, aside from using iron on patches on my jeans.

And then, I went into the guest room, set up my sewing machine and cut the grommet top off the new curtains and sewed a rod pocket in the panels.  

I was contemplating all this sewing and realized that I used to be a very good seamstress.  But I tend to do things less than perfectly these days.  I do things like eyeball measurements and finger iron seam allowances rather than iron the fabric properly.  I nearly made a mistake today and I'm glad I decided to at least check the two curtains with each other.  I was convinced they had both been folded in the same manner and planned to use the original fold lines as my seam guide.  Well one curtain was a good inch off the other using that method.  I saved myself a world of picking stitches by that one little check-up.

And the new curtains are lovely, truly lovely in the room.  When I get the walls painted it's going to be such a calm and pretty room.  You can get a sneak peek at the sample on the wall next to the curtains.  That's the color I originally thought I'd paint the kitchen and the more I looked at it in the kitchen the less I liked it.  In the filtered light of the bedroom, it's very pretty indeed.

The curtains truly transform the space.  Now of course my mind ticks all the things I 'need': new artwork, lamps, a small table to go with the chair, to mend and reupholster the chair...No small projects in my home, ever.  It's always just a task in an ongoing list of things I would like to do in each space.

The house does look better, I struck a few tasks off the to do lists.  Supper is pretty much ready.  I'm having the Mock Chow Mein casserole.  I found mushrooms in the freezer yesterday afternoon and added those to the casserole.  I'll serve the casserole with broccoli and Ambrosia.

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