Everything is still pretty much iced over out there, although we got some rain earlier that promoted a bit of meltage. Then the temps dropped again and we’re getting *checks window* overcast mainly, although there’s still water dripping from the eaves and Weather Underground is showing a wintry mix over us with a promise of 96% precipitation that will freeze. So that’s fun.
In the meantime I have this unexpected gift of a space heater going and keeping the office downright toasty, for which Jeremy was quite appreciative earlier in the day. Why is said space heater an unexpected gift? Allow me to explain.
Our upstairs heating is rather wonky, so the craft room and upstairs bathroom get the bulk of the heat and the rest of the rooms are left to do credible imitations of iceboxes. Lyndon’s office has three computers in it which helps with heat to a degree, but this situation has required us to purchase a space heater for our bedroom which lives in front of the window and does its best to hold back the cold.
The first space heater we ever got seemed to stop working after a few years. Because I am who I am, I stuck it behind our bedroom door and got another space heater for the room, always thinking, “Yeah, I really should haul that downstairs and throw it out…”
Cut to yesterday when it was so cold in here it actually hurt my skin, it occurred to me that I might try bringing the supposedly dead space heater here, plugging it in, and seeing if it could fire up again. So I did. Lo and behold, it’s heating up (Lyndon came in and sniffed suspiciously but I reminded him that the damn thing was covered with dust and I was about to clean it off). Today it is decidedly cozy in here, so much so that I just turned down the space heater a tad.
Which is good because after I got my word quota done for the day and made dinner it was time to work on the Garden Path quilt. At left is a picture of what’s been put together so far, which is four columns out of a final five plus three inches of a border around the entire thing. Considering that I think I started on this sometime in 2009 it feels good to know that I’ll have the quilt top finished in a week or so.
Since this is going to be full size I think I may pay to have a woman who’s associated with my local quilt store quilt it for me on her long arm machine. I can just about get baby and twin quilts through my machine, but anything larger than that requires a long arm and I would really like to have a nice design on this quilt.
Once that’s done, I’ll have to figure out what my next closet project will be. I don’t want to do the black and silver dress just yet because that will scatter glitter everywhere, but I don’t want to immediately leap into yet another quilt. Maybe I’ll pull out the swing dress that’s been cut out and put that together (it’s probably too late to fix the issue with my freakishly long torso, but I’ll see what I can do to make it work).
Dallas got whacked with a bit of a winter storm as of yesterday, and today we woke up to this.
I have no idea why, but today I was absolutely overwhelmed with the urge to make a cover for the food processor so that it coordinated with the cover for the stand mixer.
Anyway, the food processor cover. As you may remember, I bought the fabric the 
So I found out that a family member died this morning (it was expected, the family member was surrounded by loved ones and had lived a good long life so while I’m sad this isn’t sudden or a tragedy). And all of a sudden I was hit with the strongest urge to clean. I mean, it’s like I have a voice in the back of my head saying, “Go clean. Go clean. Go clean.”
The Brit had headed off for his weeky D&D game and I was sewing and listening to episodes of 
And frankly it’s going to be two days of constant laundry due to the Ancient One, as much cleaning as I can stand, finishing three motifs for the Garden Paths quilt, and maybe finishing off Interview With the Vampire since it got put behind an AMC paywall and I’ll be damned if I’m paying for yet another streaming services so I just bought it.
Since I’m Olde™ and really don’t need anything these days, it makes buying me presents for my birthday and Christmas somewhat challenging. If I can’t get some sort of an experience I try to make it easier on the Brit by finding something cute on Amazon and sending him a link. Last year, I got a really cool skull cup for my birthday, but I was kind of stumped for Christmas.
Apparently someone asked the Bodacious Brit this morning on a business call if Dallas was handling the snow well. “What snow?” he asked, bewildered. It’s raining here today, yes, and the temperature is starting to drop, but the only snow we’ll see are a couple of possible flurries between 7 and 9 PM before the precipitation stops. And it’s going to be 48°F tomorrow, and the ground is too warm for anything to accumulate anyway so we’re fine.
I thought I’d give you a little more background on the plans I mentioned in yesterday’s post. So as you know, Bob, I took off the week between Christmas and New Year and quilted my little heart out while listening to old episodes of my favorite podcast 
Melanie Fletcher 