New Project

Dan here ~

What a wonderful stretch of walking weather we have had of late. I should finish out January with over 200 miles in my Walk Bank, well on the way to my goal of 2021 miles in 2021. 

I walk the same road several times a day and that road is icy in many spots. I walk looking at the ground in front of me usually doing quilt design math in my head. Works for me, I don’t notice how far I have to go and often forget where I’ve been. Yesterday I noticed a small stone on the ground. The stone was about 2-3” in diameter. What caught my eye was that for about 3/4” all around the stone the snow had melted down to the gravel road. 

Interesting that such a small stone could absorb and re-radiate enough light energy as heat to do that. Probably something wrong with me to notice things like that but I guess that’s just the way it is.

If you have been following along you are aware I have not shown a final on the top Rona 10. I did decide on a border but, alas, I did not get it done last night so I could show it to you today. At 1:00 AM I could see that I still had a couple hours left so I will show you a picture when it is done in a future blog.

Rona 11 is mostly figured out. I’m going back to the 4-patch pile and start getting rid of some of them. 

This is probably all you will hear about Rona 11 for a while as there is quite a bit of sewing that needs to happen.

PLUS

I have another project that I need to accomplish that will take a good deal of time spread out over many days. Out in the area of the fireplace there is located a square of wood about 33” on a side. It is the cover for the septic pump station. The project is to paint a top cover to mount over the existing ugly green cover.

Ugly green pump station cover

Anyone who knows me knows that when faced with problem I often will not choose the easy solution but will opt for the more complicated one. Just because. Don’t really know why, probably has something to do with proving to myself I could. 

Yes, I could put a couple coats of exterior paint on the piece of plywood and frame I had the carpenter precut for me. But no, I decided that would be too easy, so I will be painting a quilt on the plywood. 

I’ll take pictures on the paint project as well as Rona 11’s progression, in case anyone is interested. 

Until next time, stay happy and healthy.