May. 17th, 2010

thanate: (bluehair)
This weekend began with yard sales, of which the prize was from a nice lady down the street who spent 20 years as a seamstress and has now gotten over that. She sold us a 1952 singer with both plastic case and fold-up sewing table, mad quantities of foot attachments including more widths of hem rolling feet than I'd known existed, and a handful of folkwear patterns for $30, and has promised to drop by with some other sewing table attachment when she digs it out of her basement. The rest of it mostly involved sorting out the storage building and moving boxes of things (miscellaneous) and then getting irritated at each other because we've never sorted out our filing systems. (It does not help that I have a complex system of "this goes with this, and obviously you look for this here in the box marked with cryptic letter & number combinations which you're expected to listen to the first time I explain them," and [livejournal.com profile] grauwulf's system often boils down to "here is a box, and here is some stuff; I will put the latter in the former.")

The consequence of all this is that we now have more and more accessible space in the storage building, half a cube set up in the corner of the basement where [livejournal.com profile] grauwulf is planning to set up work space, a growing pile of things we don't need but someone not here present might, a sewing table currently sitting in front of the TV because we're not sure where else to put it, and stacks of boxes filling up the living room & the chair in the craft room that I need to sort. But so it goes; I just spent a few hours this morning outside in the drizzle moving more sod out of the garden bed.

The mourning dove (who may have been widowed after all) coaxed her fledgelings out of the nest on Friday evening about an hour before we had a brief hailstorm, but they or birds like them have been sighted since. We were tallying wildlife seen in the yard yesterday and came up with a pretty impressive total; besides the squirrels, birds (and there's a blue jay nest right on the other side of the property line, and robins somewhere nearby) and the rabbits, there's been a fox, a woodchuck, and a deer, and there was a turkey vulture just down the road the other day as well. Now if the rabbits would just stop biting the heads off plants that might otherwise grow big and feed them in years to come...

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