Jinxed

Carol here ~ 

Well, I think I jinxed Lena Longarm.  A couple of weeks ago I was thinking to myself that Lena was running so well, hardly ever had to adjust the tension, pretty much would finish one quilt, load the next and continue on.  

I loaded quilt #21 expecting everything to be fine.  Oopsie, not so much.

2024-21

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday again, was cold this morning. I don’t know how cold, but cold enough that the leaves on the beach that I did not get picked up yesterday were frozen in place. I did the best that I could but unfortunately the enjoyment of raking and transporting the 109 loads up back into the woods will soon be transferred to snow shoveling. Nothing in the forecast, but remember, before I can relocate snow, I get the enjoyment of the process of removing the loader bucket from the tractor and attaching the snowblower. Not really difficult in theory, only in application. The first sentence of the directions states you must be able to easily lift 50 pounds. Therein lies the problem, that may be doable on a good day not necessarily true every day. I can only hope that when needed to happen it will be a good day.

While I was raking the multitude of leaves from the beach yesterday I found something rather strange. Well I guess not strange really, I just never saw one washed up on the beach. It was either a girls bathing suit top or a bra. It was green but I guess that doesn’t matter. There were a lot of leaves and I kept a real sharp eye out but never saw the rest of the girl.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday, where does the time go?

I decided that it was time for my second dose of the shingles vaccine. I am not a lover of needles and shots. So I put it off about as long as I could. I still need the flu and the Covid shots, they’ll have to wait a little. The first dose of the shingles gave me a reaction beyond a very sore arm. It was the second day after receiving the shot and I was still feeling lousy when I finally realized that the shot was what caused it. Well today as the nice young lady was about to plunge in the goody juice I was telling her this. Of course she says “oh with most people if you have a reaction to dose #1 you will have a worse one to dose #2.” I hear this as the goody juice burns into my arm. Now several hours and much exercise splitting wood later, my arm is sore. But then again so is my shoulders and back and both arms and my hands. I don’t think much really has anything to do with the shot, other than the sore arm injection site. Had the shingles, I would rather have vinyl siding, less maintenance.

Yesterday I went over to the neighbors and retrieved the last four or so tractor loads of big wood. Today while I was resting after getting my shot, I proceeded to get it all split and scabbed onto the main wood pile. 

What I've Been Doing

Carol here ~ 

I got the binding finished on quilt #15 the other day and got it washed yesterday.  Love the blue border on this one!

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And I discovered I must of skipped #14 so still have that one to do before I move on to #16.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening by the fire in shirtsleeves, temps today in the 70’s, oh what a day it was. There was very little wind and I only needed to remove two tractor bucket loads of leaves from the beach. That still took a couple hours. That brings the fall total to 62. As I look around the pond now I see very few deciduous trees that are not bare. The only culprits are the bloody oaks.

I am very intrigued about the oaks. Their leaves are much like people, they come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. Some of them are teeny tiny, with lots of indents and points, others more rounded and not too sharp and still others are huge. At least ten inches long. What I want to know, is if all these different sizes are present on the same tree, or do different trees have different sizes, each tree containing mostly the same size.

This and That

Carol here ~

We headed up to Rangeley Saturday.

As we were coming into Rumford on the way up we saw the most beautiful rainbow I have ever seen.  We could see the whole arc, of course a picture doesn't do it justice especially when in a car but...

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Another windy day with at least part of which I spent raking leaves on the beach. 

The total tractor bucket count to date is 39 counting the three from today. Most of today was spent doing errands. BJ’s and some groceries.

The Bluejays have been pigs at the feeder in the mornings. I only have a seed tray and some suet out now but the birds are loving it. The Bluebirds have been around some mornings and when I came home from errands I saw two Cardinals, a male and a female. The female took off right away but the male hung for a couple photos.