Laundry day

I changed the sheets on the bed and decided that all my sheets are shit. Time to pair down and replace. Sheets are the hardest things for me to get rid of. I'm pretty good at buying new ones but I tend to hold on to old sheets until my foot goes through them one night. No more. New day. Two sheets. Both new. One for the bed and one to put on while the other is in the laundry cycle. (I don't use top sheets.) The current supply is going to Goodwill OR my fabric stash. I ordered the two sheets today. Plan execution underway.

I try to do laundry while the dirty clothes pile is still only one load. I rarely achieve this and didn't today but I did get it under 2 loads.

I'm reading the latest John Grisham and I'm so relieved. I remember distinctly the day I picked up The Pelican Brief. It had just come out and I sat in the living room and just ate it up like candy. It was like being carried away. I appreciate fine writing but I love love love a good story well told and this was. As were many many of his subsequent books. Along the way, however, he threw me some curve balls. There was Playing For Pizza. Judging from the cover art, I figured it was a metaphor for some lofty, barely logical, legal situation. Turns out, it was about this dude who got cut from American pro football and went to play in Italy. I read it to the end, thinking it would turn into something interesting. I didn't.

The there was the one late last year or earlier this year about a thief in a bookshop in some southern small town. I have, gratefully, forgotten many of the details. It was a horribly story, written very poorly with a totally unreasonable plot. I didn't even make it to the halfway point. I was ready for that to be my last Grisham novel ever. But, then, he had a new one - a new legal story - and I gave him one more chance. So glad I did. It's cut from The Pelican Brief cloth and so enjoyable. I've got 8 more hours and a really excellent next book lined up and even so, I'm dreading coming to the end.

But, reading/listening to books is rarely done in the daytime here. The days are for doing stuff.

Today's plans include sewing and goats. I want to get at least one of those pair of pants completed. And then, at noon, there is some kind of goat petting zoo up at the park. I am a total sucker for petting zoos so goats r us for lunch today!

The Tree That I Hate is finally giving up the ghost for the Summer. The leaves are drying up. They go from dusty (dusty as in city dirt) green to crinkly dirty brown. And then, thankyoujesus, they fall off. We've got some wind today. A good storm in the next few days will give me back my view. Fingers crossed.

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Testing... Testing...

I don't have the yarn for my next sweater so I practiced my idea out on the leftovers from the last one. I changed the crochet to a different pattern and then tried out knitted ribbing. Worked way better than I expected. I used an 8 mm crochet hook and size 7 knitting needles. I think I'm going to use a size 8 knitting needle for the actual sweater but over all, pleased.



I did go to the goat petting zoo and it was fun. The wind was blowing and it was raining pretty sincerely but there were still tons of petters there. They had something like 20 goats ranging from pretty darned big to babies. It was cute.





Then I wandered over to the teriyaki place and got enough chicken for lunch and dinner or lunch and lunch, depends on how I feel at dinner time tonight.

I also finished up one of those pair of pants and did two loads of laundry. When I went to put the laundry away, I got energized and took all the old pants - the ones I've been wearing forever even though they look old and most of them no longer stay up easily - and put them in the Goodwill bin. The bin is now full. Again.

And I also have very few clothes in my closet now that I did not make. I probably will be donating those soon as I have no interest in wearing them. My me-made stuff fits better, has pockets and is more fun.

My brother and sister in law are coming to visit in January. I have room here for one person but two people just makes a visit not fun so we found a loft in the next block on AirBNB and after some back and forth with the host, we booked it. It's south of here (about half way to the baseball stadium) in a building that I never knew had apartments. I think it's going to work out fine. We also need to rent a car because again... my car is great for one more person. Two is a problem. This time, however, we are going to go regular rental. I'm still burned by my last Trulio experience.

Ooops there's the mail carrier (I can see him on my TV via the webcam). I've got two packages. Better go collect 'em.