Goodwill Glamour Girl

After three trips to the Goodwill in three days, I figure we're best friends by now. It's been an eclectic collection that I've turned over to them. We've now emptied one wall unit, one bookcase, and one whole closet. It sure feels good to be unloading 47 years of accumulated junk. There is still one closet left to sort through. It's the closet in my sewing room. On one side are my sewing things. On the other are two big boxes of family memorabilia and some other stuff. The family memorabilia will probably take the place of the silver serving pieces shoved to the back of the closet under the stairs. The rest of the stuff will be sold or donated. Today we're taking a day off from it, though. I really need to sort through my sewing stuff before we tackle the rest. And there's actually no rush since we're waiting for the final mold test to come back from the lab. They won't take up the old carpet until they're certain the mold has been removed.

Smitty was chomping at the bit to get outside yesterday. He was watching squirrels charging back and forth across the deck, and he wanted to play with them.

And when I say he wanted to play with them, I mean that literally. He caught two of them, and that's just fine with us. We have so many, and they do so much damage, and get into so much mischief. His efforts are always rewarded with extra skritches, and treats of valor.

I'm happy to report that my cucumbers are getting their true leaves. All of my seeds have sprouted now.

We're expecting several days of good weather this week, and so I'll be doing some planting outside. I have sunflowers to plant along the garage wall behind the blueberries. The cucumbers will be going into the greenhouse. For the time being, we'll probably give them little protective cages, just in case the squirrels get ideas about digging in their pots. We'll probably set a trap in the greenhouse as well. Any squirrels caught in the trap get relocated to a different zip code.

Before anything else happened yesterday, I did some slow-stitching. Now I've stitched enough to move my hoop to the last position.

What you see below is all that's left. I'll probably finish it this morning.

After that I did my little workout. When I came back downstairs I found Himself relaxing comfortably on the table. The dining room table is off-limits to kitties. Smitty wonders why we put a quilt there if he isn't supposed to lie on it. He makes an excellent point. He thinks this one would make an purrfect surface for him to lie on when he does his next sexiest cat alive photo shoot (swimsuit edition) next month.

I had some housekeeping chores to do, but then I had some time for sewing later in the afternoon. Sadie assisted while I sorted through my scraps, re-establishing the color value piles.

When we had that finished, she gave me her purrmission to continue with my purroject.

The animal's whole face is finished now. I was just getting started on the body when it was time to quit for the day. Here's your peek.

Any guesses as to what kind of animal it is?

We have a lot of stuff to do today. We need to do a couple of things in town. We generated a lot of garbage in our cleaning out of stuff, and so Mike wants to make a run to the dump rather than stuffing it all into our trash can. It would take several weeks before we could dispense with all of it. The dump will take it off our hands in a matter of minutes. There's also one housekeeping chore to do. 

We'll be picking up my old Nikon camera at the repair shop today. You might remember we took two cameras in to them, and they were going to take parts from the older model to repair the newer one. As it turns out, they were able to repair the newer camera without destroying the older one. I guess that one will get listed on Craig's List along with all the rest of the stuff we've listed for sale. I'm happy with my new Panasonic camera, and so Mike will lay claim to the Nikon.

If there's time for sewing after all that is accomplished, then I'll make some more progress on my challenge quilt.