A Day to Do Nothing

There wasn't much going on here at the Traveling Three Cats Ranch yesterday. The temperatures warmed up a little from the day before, but not as hot as the previous two days. My plans included sewing, but then Mike was working on a project, and he was spread all over the interior of the RV. Since my sewing also likes to take up every flat surface, our projects were at odds with one another. In a show of great magnanimity, I gave him the time and space to finish what he was working on...mainly, because I wanted him to do it.

He installed a little filtered water spigot at the kitchen sink. We'd been using a Brita pitcher, which needed a new filter. And those things are expensive, so why bother when he had this project on his docket. Here's the "Before" image:

After Mike worked his magic...voila!

Nice, huh? And that space-hogging Brita pitcher is so outa here.

There was enough space for me to make up the fourth snowflake, but I won't start on this until I've done some more hand-quilting.

It's another addictive hand-stitching project. I'm loving the bead work on these. This next one will have these beads where the circles appear.

I've been using three colors of blue floss from my stash on these, but it's clear I'm going to run out. And we had a couple of errands to run, so I picked up a couple of skeins at JoAnn. (No JoAnn employees were harmed during this outing.) Also, Mike always has to make at least two trips to the hardware store whenever he's in the middle of a project. And then, we learned something yesterday that will make our life on the road so much easier at times. So here's what happened.

Without going into the whole sad story of our mail forwarding problems, I think we finally got it all sorted out yesterday. As it turns out, the post office has been forwarding our mail, but we weren't receiving anything from MyRVmail.com because I neglected to fill out a form required by the post office. And this meant another trip to Staples to print something. And, of course, the computers were down again at Staples. (Drat!) So we whined and complained and threw ourselves on the floor for a three-year-old-style tantrum, when a nice young man said something along the lines of, "Oh...well, just email it to us at Staples@printme.com, and we'll print it for you!" And we said in unison, "Huh?" (We're so very old and intellectually intact these days.)

Well, so here's the deal: You simply send your print project to that email address above...a pdf, in our case. Within a minute or so, you'll get a verification code by return email, and then you can take that code to any Staples store, punch it into one of their printers, and print your document. Whoa! Who knew? I'm telling you, I wanted to go right home and send another email with the novel I'm writing (which doesn't actually exist), so I could print that off right away. Also, it was cheaper because I only paid for the pages I printed, and not for the minutes I spent on their computer. Okay, so now I feel as if I have a new lease on life. Maybe the next time someone explains something to me, I'll say something more intelligent than "Huh?"

Okay, well, I was completely rejuvenated then, so I took a walk when we got back to the RV. These are some things I saw:

Looks like Garfield has spent a little too much time in the sun. But he's climbing a flag pole, so I suppose there's still some life left in the cat.

This one blooming thing. There was a dearth of blooming things along yesterday's path.

This bicycle is right at our own site. Mike thinks it belongs to the lady next door. It's actually at our site though.

Behind it is this hanging bird bath, all full of leaves and other debris. Wouldn't you think if someone went to the trouble of hanging a bird bath, they'd put it where they could see it, and keep it cleaned out? So, I have an idea these items were left behind by another traveler.

It was near the end of the day by then, and we were treated to a beautiful sunset.

Day is done. I so wish I could have taken a picture of the night sky after the sun set. I tried, believe me, but my pictures were all blurry. There was a little sliver of a moon...my favorite kind of moon, where you can see just the tiniest sliver, but you can also see clearly the spherical shape of the moon. Then, just above the moon, Venus was shining brightly. It was a beautiful evening.

Today I think I will get out my sewing machine and do some sewing. I have a couple of projects I could choose from, but I haven't made up my mind. I could sew my Tiny Tuesday blocks together. Here's the last picture I took of them before they were finished:

I need some fabric to finish them off. We're planning a trip to Oceanside tomorrow with a stop off at a quilt shop along the way, and so that's a real contender. I can still sew the blocks together, even without the fabric.

On the other hand, I could sew the "Stitch" sampler into a finished flimsy. There are actually two samplers I was planning to finish off by sewing the two together into a small runner. I'm not sure if I need more fabric for this one.

Or, on the other other hand, I could sew the Farm Fresh Eggs into a finished flimsy. Just as I was getting ready to include this, I realized I don't have it listed on my "In Progress" page, and so I don't know when I first started it. But let me tell you...it's been a while. The embroidery is finished, but I pulled fabrics and brought them along for sewing on the road.

If you've been paying attention, you might even remember I picked a backing fabric while we were on our last trip. This came from Cortez Quilt Company in Cortez, Colorado.

I'm kind of leaning toward the last one since I know have everything I need to finish it off. And while I've been typing this, I looked back over previous blog posts and figured out I started this on September 15, 2019. Now it's included in my "In Progress" page. Phew! Close call!

Okay, so lots to do, and decisions to make. What's going on in your sewing room right now?