When I finished yesterday's post, I went straightaway to function hand-sewing the binding for It's Raining Cats in addition to Dogs. I've turned the minute corner now. The adjacent side is a shorter one, in addition to thus I expression I'll plow the tertiary corner before long enough.
It was fourth dimension to teach selection upward the turkeys at Erik in addition to Mae's house. I'd also planned to practise my grocery shopping. H5N1 cheque of the weather condition forecast establish that the threat of snowfall had been removed from today's forecast. And, hey...there's zippo similar a expert argue to procrastinate on a hated task. Instead of going to the grocery store, I went straightaway home. Grocery shopping could hold off roughly other day.
Also yesterday morning, Sadie took the bold pace of jumping upward inwards the high window higher upward our bed. It's a small broad window...sort of similar having a skylight on a wall. She discovered she tin sack practically sit down inwards the trees there, in addition to she tin sack hold a unopen oculus on plane activeness outside. Why...it's almost equally if she's a plane herself.
Smitty has no fourth dimension for that form of nonsense. He was busy keeping upward amongst catsultant duties inwards the sewing room.
You mightiness shout out upward from yesterday's post service that I'd sewn together January's pump block for Hearts A-Plenty.
I wasn't completely satisfied amongst it though. The pump textile was over-shadowing the embroidered heart. After talking it over amongst my catsultant, I decided to accept the borders off, cut the block a piddling bit, in addition to add together a narrow border...one-quarter inch, to live exact. And, yeah...I mean value I similar that better.
And thus I continued on amongst February...
And March...and pretty soon, I had the direct identify row sewn together.
It's looking pretty cute to my eyes. Sadie liked it too. She helped me hold things organized in addition to lined upward equally I continued on amongst April's block.
Smitty parked himself behind the sewing automobile to hold me sewing inwards a straightaway line.
Seriously. Keep those seams straight.
By day's end, I had one-half the hearts sewn together.
While I've been slaving away inwards the sewing room, Mike's been difficult at function customizing the 5th wheel. He's been working for several days installing solar panels on the roof. When 1 heads south, 1 should absorb equally much unloose energy from the Sun equally possible. This has been quite a business since he also needs to run the wiring through the RV, which involved drilling holes inwards the roof. Yikes. Sometimes the human being simply amazes me amongst his handyman skills in addition to his courage.
But solar panels aside, he's also been working on a laid upward for the window where the catio goes. Now, here's the saga of the catio window. You mightiness shout out upward when the 5th bike get-go arrived hither at the Three Cats Ranch, the catio window was this novel
So inwards gild to arrange the catio, nosotros had that window replaced amongst 1 that slides opened upward from the bottom.
And that was all good in addition to good, except amongst such a broad opening, it lets inwards a lot of mutual depression temperature air. Here inwards the Northwest, that's rarely a expert thing, especially inwards the winter, in addition to thus on 1 of our camping ground trips, Mike upcycled a big canvass of plastic to cutting downward on the draft. It's a piddling similar those plastic curtains they hang inwards the fridge sections of grocery stores.
Classy, huh? Nothing similar a expert dose of duct record to liven upward your interior decorating. Maybe you've noticed this method has fallen out of favor, in addition to grocery stores get got returned to drinking glass cases for refrigerated goods. There's a argue for that: it isn't a especially efficient method of insulation.
So...clever Mike used the concealment from the window to create a template, in addition to thus had a canvass of plexi-glass cutting that would stand upward for within the window frame. Then, he installed a regular kitty door inwards the plexi-glass, in addition to ta-da!
Cool, huh? And I would justice we've spent nearly a m bucks on this catio window solution. Anything for our kitties...although I guess, technically, the kitty door is for us.
But he's non the alone smart individual living hither at the Three Cats Ranch. Smart me...I talked him into going out for dinner in addition to thus to the grocery store yesterday evening. And thus my most dreaded shopping trip of the twelvemonth is done. And it was relatively painless. And I had someone to assistance me seat things away when nosotros got home.
This morning, I'm heading out for my monthly pedicure, in addition to thus dorsum habitation to practise roughly cooking in addition to to a greater extent than sewing. I'm actually hoping to teach the Hearts A-Plenty direct identify sewn together earlier the destination of the week. It's going to teach busy from hither on though.
How are your Thanksgiving preparations going?