The Run Around

Good morning, my friends. We had a run-around day, and I'm afraid we're in for another one today. We had a not-enough-fuel problem with Mike's truck, which meant we were running around in my Jeep Wrangler. We had in mind to pick up some flower baskets, and he wanted to do some glass recycling. Unfortunately, the Jeep is too small to do both, and so we had to split our running around into two days. Oh well. We'll accomplish some other things while we're in town today. I dislike going into town enough that I try to pack every single thing into one trip.

And speaking of flower baskets, we picked up these two beauties to hang at the corners of my greenhouse window.

We usually do this as a Mother's Day treat, but we were traveling this year. We're a little late getting these hung.

We also got our COVID boosters while we were out. We both feel fine this morning, but we have sore arms. I'm just glad to be feeling okay. I can live with the sore arm for a few days.

After lunch, I made my way into the sewing room to spend a little more time with my "Vintage" quilt. Smitty was my helper cat.

When my hour was up, I continued working on it for a little while longer until I could get to a good stopping place. I figured out how to use the filters on my new version of Photoshop Elements, and so I'll give you a bigger peek today.

It was getting too late in the day to start anything else, and so I worked on our Alaska trip for a while. I'm pretty happy with the route I've mapped out at this point. Now I'm figuring out what we'll want to see at each stop. There are some good "RV to Alaska" groups on Facebook, and those folks are a wealth of information.

When I tired of that, I took a walk around the yard. There isn't much new, but the Red Cardinal clematis has opened all the way. It has just one flower at this point, but more buds on the way.

With the running around we did yesterday, there was no time for any weeding. Probably there won't be today either. I'm getting close enough to finishing that I really just want to get it done. On the other hand, when time is short, sewing gets my attention.

So there wasn't much going on yesterday. But I would be remiss if I didn't wish Miss Sadie a Happy Gotcha Day. She joined the Three Cats Ranch 8 years ago today. She was about a year old when we got her, and so we believe she’s about nine years old now. She was brought to a shelter with a litter of two kittens. The kittens were taken into purrtective custody, and I expect they were adopted by someone else. We never saw them. She’s happy to live in a house with lots of snuggle quilts. She was all snuggled up when I left her to come upstairs this morning.

Okay, so there was no time for slow-stitching yesterday. I'm champing at the bit to get started on the last "Joyful Journey" block. Probably I won't get to my quilting again today, but I'm hoping to make some more progress on the "Vintage" quilt. I'm going to say it's a little more than half finished at this point. I'm still hoping to finish it by the end of the month.

What's going on in your sewing room today?