A Day of Many Miles

No time for sewing today.  It was a day of errands.  It is a rare day when I go into Beaverton, and so I wanted to take advantage of it.  Our little town of Newberg has most everything we need, but for some things, I just have to go in the other direction.  That means traffic, and I would rather stick needles in my eyes than sit in traffic.  And that means when it's 3:30, I start heading for the hills...literally.

So here I am, having done all the things I needed to do in town, except that I forgot to visit the new quilt shop that opened.  No matter, I would have run out of time for the meat and potatoes part of the trip.  I'll save the quilt shop for another day.

It was an Instagram day because I was on the hunt for tomorrow's prompt:  something orange.  I'll show you what I saw.

The day started with my Curves workout.  No real orange here, but I was handed this booklet.  Do you see a quilt here?  Because I sure do.

When I finished my workout, I headed over to the local feed store (I love that our little town has a "feed store") and bought some potting soil.

I was planning to plant my tomato seeds yesterday, but then realized I didn't have any potting soil.  These are the tomatoes I'm going to plant.  The entire garden is going in the greenhouse this year, and so the only other seeds I got were lettuce, basil, and dill.  That will be for this weekend.

After that I came home and helped Smitty upload pictures for his blog post.  He's a pretty good typist, but for some things, a guy just needs some thumbs.  While he was writing his post, I ate my lunch, and then I took off to get my haircut.  

I got a makeover while I was at it, complete with face lift, botox, liposuction, and having my eyeliner tattooed on.  (Think I'm kidding?)  

After that I headed up to JoAnn and got a pile of embroidery floss for the new project I'm going to be starting soon.  I did see some orange there.

Then I went to an office supply store to cash in a rebate check and turn in some more printer cartridges for recycling.  There was lots of orange in there.  What do you think?  Are these orange or yellow?

Now these are definitely orange.

Then I went to the New Balance store.  One of the two pairs of shoes I got there last week is too uncomfortable to wear.  I don't generally return things once I've purchased them, but the shoes were not going to work at all.  They hurt my feet.  I took them back to exchange them, but they didn't have anything suitable in my size.  They're going to order some that I might like.  For now, they gave me a refund, no questions asked.  While I was there, I saw these oranges:

As I was heading to my car, I saw this:

Then I went to the Backyard Bird Shop to get some bird seed.  While I was there, I saw this.

Then it was 3:30, and I started getting weird, nervous, and thirsty.  Besides, I was drinking water all day and I had to...well, you know.

So that was pretty much my day of orange.  When I got home, I asked myself this one question:

"Orange you glad to be home?"

And I was.  The other thing I said as I went through the door was this:  "My kingdom for a bathroom!"