Rainy and breezy day...

It's supposed to be rainy and breezy and chilly all day. My favorite weather. It's already not quite chilly enough but I would be silly to bitch considering what was on our weather plate just a week ago.

Periodically, I check on swimming around town. The city pools are not even close to reopening. My gym has pools in two locations. The one I went to every day (and is free to me) is now not accessible (bridge closed) and the other one's pool is not open yet. "We believe it will open in Phase 3." The gym downtown has a pool that is available. But, it is really expensive and the pool is short and no locker room access so you drive home.

But the major pool news is that I find I'm just not into it. I could actually go swimming at the expensive gym but I've lost the will. And I'm ok with that. Maybe I'll get it back. Maybe it will come back with a COVID vaccine and more accessibility. Maybe it won't. I miss the feeling of swimming. But I'm fine without it just now. I think I might gather up all my swim stuff and pack it away. Ready but not today.

So that's on the agenda today along with cleaning out my sewing machines. I noticed yesterday they both needed a good blow job. Also the sewing room needs some tidying up. I will do that.

I have a meal delivery dilemma. There's a new restaurant delivery service in town - Runner. They operate differently than the rest and I'd love to give them a try. My own favorite burger place has now decided to do their own delivery in my neighborhood. And I really want to support that effort. But, I have food here. I don't need meals delivered right now. I have food in the fridge and food in the freezer. But, I ordered a burger for lunch anyway. To show the neighborhood love.

The Mariners had Season Ticker Holder Appreciation Night last night via YouTube. It was kind of cute. They had enough giveaways of all kinds so that, I'm guessing, everyone got something. I got a Mariners sweat shirt. You have to make an appointment at the team store at the stadium to pick it up. Rather convenient for me. My appointment is Tuesday. At noon. The game today is at 4. Four games left.

Now I think I'll go get started on today.

Passion detritus

For years and year, I knitted teddy bears and other stuffed animals. I made a kajillion of them. And then for several years after that, I sewed dolls and teddy bears, about a quarter of a kajillion of those. Stuffing - fiberfill - was easy to come by at first and cheap. And then, the good stuff got hard to find and expensive and I was using a fuck ton of it.

So I took to buying 25 pound boxes when ever I found it on sale. I can barely fit one 25 pound box in my car so it was a strategic maneuver. But, a sale is a sale.

I stopped a while back - stopped making the stuffed stuff mostly. And I still have two 25 pound boxes taking up storage space in cupboards on my terrace. I might, one day, make stuffed stuff again but I might not. If I did get rid of the boxes, my fear is that I'd fill up the space with junk. But someone could surely use the stuffing. It seems such a waste to leave it there. But, I don't have really any way of getting rid of it easily. So it sits.

I did pack up all the swimming stuff. I'm fairly shocked at how much there is. There's a $30 pair of goggles that are still in their plastic packaging. All of it is now neatly in a box on the shelf in the closet. I can bust it out again whenever. I'm sure not going to get rid of it.

But, I have swim suit fabric that never got made into swim suits. And swim suit elastic as well. Now it probably never will. Wonder if I should introduce it to the fibefill?