I Like Thursday: Finishes

I got lots of stuff done this week.

I like that I finally put up the window feeders.  One or two titmice watched me as I washed the window and hung the first feeder.  I had just stepped in the door when the first one landed.  They started flying by the second window, awaiting that feeder to be hung as well.  By the time I started to work that window, the chickadees were watching me.  I didn't have a chance to step away from the window before the first chickadee alighted.  In the hour that followed, word got out to the nuthatches and house finches.  It was quite the party all afternoon.



I like the new clips I got for hanging and photographing my quilts.  Wish I had done this ages ago.  Made the setup and flipping from front to back a breeze!  I bought silver ones, but now I'm already eyeballing a set of black (after I saw photos of someone who uses those).

OMG, I just received notice - two of my quilts have been accepted for a display at the Melrose Public Library in December.  Now I just have to figure out how to deliver them (without making a trip during rush hour).

I like that I'm finished hemming the dress.  I took this after hemming the dress but before I cut the outer shell.  It's a whole 9 inches shorter!  Cutting the outer shell turned out to be trickier than I thought - it looked really ragged unless it was a very clean cut.  I'm so grateful I purposely made my first cut too low because after trimming and fixing it, it was very close to the hem.  I would have been bummed had I cut the shell too short!  It's done and ready to wear in another week.  Whew.

I like the Wayback Machine website.  Do you know of this?  I have found it wonderfully useful for finding content on web page that no longer exists.  It doesn't store everything, it doesn't always work, but I have pulled PDFs for at least two different patterns that no longer exist at their original URLs.

I like my new name tag.  Not my best work, but it looks pretty good for a quick side project.  And it was done in time for the Fall Ball.

I like the Fall Ball!  Twelve hours of dancing from noon to midnight.  I pooped out at 10pm (facing a two hour drive home).  Once again, I danced around 17 miles and spent most of Sunday on the couch and limped around the house.  So worth it!


I like my pair of fuzz-butts.  They're both kind of eggplant shaped.  I especially like Mabel's zig-zag pattern.

Rob laughed at me last week while I squealed as my odometer flipped from 149,999 to 150,000.  I had wondered which would happen first 15 years or 150k.  Pretty close - my car turns 15 in two months.  Go little car!

I stopped off at the library on Tuesday to pick up a book and the librarian said I've been missed.  The last two books I've read had been loaned to me by friends, so I haven't had anything checked out in weeks.  I like the Rehoboth library (they had feared I was skipping out on them to go to the Seekonk library instead!).  It's nice to be missed!

More Rumi.  I'm not sure if I could give a practical example of what's being said here, but I like the sentiment.

Spirit and Body
Don't feed both sides of yourself equally.
The spirit and the body carry different loads
and require different attentions.
                                               Too often
we put saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey
run loose in the pasture.
                                    Don't make the body do
what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load
on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

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