August

My last full week before I have to go back to school.....

I was interviewed twice this past week about the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra) which starts back up again this month.  On Tuesday, it was with Paul Pepper on his Radio Friends on KBIA that airs every weekday morning at the end of Morning Edition.  On Thursday, it was on KFRU with David Lyle.  Of the two, I really enjoyed my time with David Lyle.  He really has a gift of making people feel comfortable and asking really valid questions.  I hope we gain some new members of the orchestra as a result of these two interviews.

I did all the beginning-of-the-month finances and shopping that takes up time.  Ricky Remus, our repairman, called Friday night to say he had some time Saturday afternoon to come by and fix stuff on my repair list.   Nothing on the list was urgent but we have been waiting all summer to get to the top of his list so it was with a silent “yahoo” that I said “come on over”.   He replaced our bedroom ceiling fan.  The motor in the fan stopped working sometime last summer. 

 

He replaced some of the “popcorn” that had come down from our ceiling.  He replaced our front-door threshold that was really looking ratty. I had to keep putting our door mat over it to cover up how bad it looked.  He hammered back in some of our outdoor siding (stupid settling foundation).  And he rehung our swinging café doors to the laundry room.  

 

  

I visited Laura Jost to talk over some humanitarian project ideas I have with some of my excess yarn and fabric and came home with some great plans.  I started the first project during a morning-long faculty training meeting I attended Friday and I finished them tonight – baby hats to look like pumpkins!  

 Aren’t they the cutest thing?  I started out making pompom tops but I kept thinking that a crocheted top would be so much better so I found my crochet hook, dusted off my knowledge of basic crochet,  and I am really happy with how they turned out. 

I also decided that since the frames on three of the four master bedroom walls were black, the ones on the north wall also really needed to be black so I pulled them off the wall and pulled out the black paint.  I will re-insert the paintings tomorrow.

 

 Emily gave me a free-hanging wall shelf and I painted it white and piled a bunch of my stuffed lambs on it.   Thanks, Em....   (Jefe, would you say we have a plethora of lambs???)

 

I finished an oil painting that I had started almost twenty years ago.

 

 

I re-stacked our woodpile out in back, thanks to the help of one of my piano students. 

(it is too dark to take a photo - plus, woodpiles look boring)

I sewed a simple top for me and I am not really happy with how it turned out.  Sigh. When I was younger, I could not understand why my mother didn't sew for herself.  I think I am now beginning to understand why....

And, we got over three inches of rain Wednesday night and Thursday!  It was SO welcome.

Steve and I watched his August movie  - Remember the Titans  - on Friday night and we watched Jack Reacher (which was surprisingly entertaining) on Saturday. And, earlier in the week, I watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and found it totally charming.