No Sun Day

It isn't precisely true that there is no sun today.  There was a brief respite from the rain earlier this morning.  I snagged that opportunity to run outside and fill the bird feeders.  It was also an opportunity to remove myself from a situation that was unbearably scary to watch.

We took our oven doors apart this morning to clean between the sheets of glass.

When we remodeled our kitchen and replaced the appliances some five years ago or so, I went shopping for appliances.  When I saw these double wall ovens, it was love at first sight.  Really.  I didn't look at another appliance line after seeing them.  They don't look terribly elegant in this image with the towels hanging from the handle, but there they are.

Most people don't get terribly attached to their kitchen appliances, but for a short time in 2007, I was smitten.  Now, they are as dirty and old-hat as any ovens.  Fickle, I know.  Over time, gunk (that's a technical term, not to be confused with "gook") has seeped between the glass where I wasn't able to clean it. We needed to take the doors apart to clean between the panes.  We expected to find two panes, but no.  There were four.  Four per door.  Eight panes of glass in total.  Sheesh.  No wonder they were looking so terrible.

In the process of taking them apart, one of the panes was extremely hard to remove even with pushing, prying, swearing, crying, banging, pounding, and the usual other un-tool-like tools that folks pull out in moments of frustration.  I made my escape and filled the bird feeders.  When I returned, the most death-defying part of the whole process was accomplished.  Seeing no broken glass anywhere, I assumed it was safe to resume my part of the process which involved oceans of Windex and vast quantities of paper towels.  

Fast forward two hours, and now my oven doors are clean as the day they were born.  And, amazingly, no paw prints.  Not that the paws didn't try, you understand.  Once again I can tolerate looking through them at my lovely baking cakes, cookies, breads, muffins, scones, um, let's see.  What else?  Biscuits, pies, cheesecake...you get the point.  Occasionally, I even bake healthy food in them.

So with that job done, I want to link up to a couple of parties going on in Blogville.  

This month's color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is green.  Here's what my little ladies will be wearing.

Soon some green ladies will join this quilt already in progress.

With different skin tones represented here, maybe it's appropriate to make some green people.  Then instead of calling my quilt "We Are the World," I could call it, "We are the Universe."  I think it's only appropriate to include little green people, don't you?  (I'm kidding, of course, but it would be fun wouldn't it?)  So I'll be linking this post to Scrap Happy Saturday

And then I missed linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching last week.  

I have completed a couple of quilt bindings in the past two weeks, but I'm still stitching away on this Gardener's Journal piece.  This is one of the larger motifs in the quilt and it has a lot of stitches.  It seems like slow going, but I'm getting there.  Tomorrow I'll take it with me to my guild meeting, and I should be able to get quite a bit done while I'm there.

This third block in the quilt has two embroidery motifs.  I haven't even started on the doghouse below.  That one is small, in comparison, and so it shouldn't take as long.

Yesterday I started top-stitching the appliques on my quilt for the monthly Doll Quilt Swap.

This one is moving along, and I hope to have it finished in the next couple of days.  You still get just a peek.

Any thoughts on what it might be?

So I'm hoping to get some sewing time in today, but I'm dedicating myself to some of those house worky tasks that you only do on blessedly few occasions.  Now that the doors are done, I'm turning my attention to polishing the hood above my cooktop.  I haven't touched it since the Great Engineering Repair Feat of 2012, and it has been complaining about the multitude of fingerprints it is sporting.  Yes, there is never a dull kitchen moment around here.  This afternoon's job will involve me crawling around on the kitchen island since that is the only way I can reach all the way to the top of the "chimney".  Hopefully, I will not fall to my death.  If this turns out to be my last blog post, you'll know what happened.  It's been so nice chatting with y'all.

Hopefully, your Sunday is more fun than mine.  But, man, that hood will be dazzling when I'm finished with it.