Friend Kelly and I have been doing deep listening canvassing in House District 5. And today, Swing Left quoted me in their email promoting their canvassing effort:
Thank goodness I have done more canvassing since I wrote that. I would have felt mega guilty if I hadn’t.
After “walking” the Camino, I was ready to get this done.
As I predicted in my Camino post, it was a long time before I finished. Almost exactly two years. Which is much longer than I would have guessed.
I am, alas, not done walking. I don’t know if I missed one, or if it was added later, but I’m now “walking” to get the Via Transilvanica badge. It’s 870 miles (approximately 1.9M steps).
After that, I will have finished all of the Garmin Expedition badges.
Hanging out among the Franz chocolate donuts at WinCo tonight? The Prince of Peace himself.
Here is the still-wet result of underwear dying using tea. The underwear (and a dress) sat overnight. They are a bit tan-ish, rather than brown. You can also see the 100 black tea bags that did the dying.
And here is the dried underwear. It’s a very light tan.
This was a good $1.82 experiment. That was the cost of the tea. I’ve now purchased some actual brown dye. More to come.
You may recall that last autumn, I took a class in making underwear. I wanted to draft my own underwear pattern, so I’ve been delayed in making more. But I’ve got the pattern drafted and didn’t get to eat for nearly three days while prepping for a colonoscopy, so that left ample time to sew, sew, sew.
While I sew, I watch/listen to saved YouTube videos. I’ve discovered the Stitchery, whose sense of humor is on point and who has interesting ideas.
Not eating for long periods of time, (plus I took the entire day off today, even though I could have worked from home for the first half) left me time to get this underwear project done!
And here is the “completed” underwear. The pile on the left contains the seven pairs I sewed for this part of the project. The one on the right is from the class I took.
Completed is in quotation marks because I don’t like how bright white the material is (even though I’m the one who bought it), so I will attempt to change the color by dying with black tea.
Back in November, I signed up for Grammar Revolution’s Sentence Diagram a Day.
Each month, Elizabeth selects a book to feature, and then gives us a week-daily email with a sentence to diagram.
In the email, she gives us a sentence, breaks down the parts, and shows us how to diagram it. It’s been a very good learning experience, though I am often a few days behind.
For the month of April, the book we were diagramming from was The Princess Bride. This was nice, because the sentences were somewhat easier than some of the books we’ve been working from. Books in the public domain often have a complex writing style.
She saved the best sentence for the last day of April:
I nearly got the whole thing on my own. I missed the infinitive as direct object. But other than that!
Best Buy (or their shipping companions, who knows?) went way overboard with the packaging for this remote we ordered.
From the future, I can report that this remote stopped working shortly after we started using it, so I ended up driving to Best Buy for a replacement. So it was delivered to the Orange Door in too much packaging and also via personal vehicle.
Sara adds a hello sticker to this cute Tom Lum Project for Awesome postcard
She reports that there isn’t much school left and that Summer Sara is trying to emerge before her time. Also that almost all the spring blooms are gone due to not much rain.
Matt poses with the remains of our complementary crème brûlée from RingSide Steakhouse. We had a delicious dinner for our twenty-fourth anniversary.
There was a plan to eat at a steakhouse in Boise that fell through, so I knew I wanted a steakhouse experience for our fancy dinner out. I got a delicious steak, baked potato, roll, and both a martini and a Manhattan. Plus we got onion rings, which were just the right kind of fried.
It was a good meal!
*book group selection | bolded means favorite
The first full month where I am not in a book group.
*Devils Like Us by L.T. Thompson
The Examiner by Janice Hallett
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
I enjoy when an entire community takes its turn at narration.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 by Beth Brower
Miss Lion continues to delight.
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act by Orsola de Castro
An excellent call to arms that will stick with me. As will the paperback’s shoddy design.
