Yesterday was chilly. No, it was cold in the upper 40s. That doesn’t seem cold in the big picture but it was close to 80 degrees on Sunday.
I had a pedicure scheduled and I wore sandals which is traditional footwear for pedicures.
My toes were definitely not used to the cold! I might need to knit a pair of pedi-socks for myself to at least keep the rest of my foot warm until the polish dried.
Oh, and I should have picked a more autumnal color…like orange.
I like to feed the birds during the winter and hummingbirds in the summer. Last year I got a new feeder for the winter that has places for seeds as well as suet cakes.
I took down the hummingbird feeders earlier this week and cleaned them before putting them away. Actually, I threw one away as the plastic perches were disintegrating from the sun and looked disgusting. We have two hummingbird feeders, one for the front porch and one about 10 feet away from the deck. I’ll need to buy another one next year.
I thought I’d take a look and the winter bird feeder and my suet cake supply. The five cakes I have will be enough for now so I’ll watch for sales to replenish my supply of Woodpecker and Hi-Energy ones. I’ve got plenty of seed for a month or two.
Well, I evidently forgot to clean that feeder before I put it in the garage in the spring. Outta sight, outta mind. I grabbed a trowel, bamboo skewer, old toothbrush, a scrubby pad, and some disposable gloves and started scraping away the mess.
The trowel got the biggest clumps.
The bamboo skewer and toothbrush got in the crevasses and other hard to reach spaces.
The scrubby pad got the rest. It’s not perfect by any means but it’s so much better.
I usually wait till after the first frost to fill it but it’s already for seeds and suet cakes.
Do you feed the birds?
I love this little Zutter Bind It All O-wire binding machine (No affiliate). It’s small but powerful. It punched through a heavy book cover, a flexible plastic ruler, and one to several sheets of paper perfectly. How-to video here.
As long as I had it out, I decided to bind my sewing machine manual and add an index to it. I don’t know why some manuals include an index and why some think you can find what you’re looking for in the table of contents. Sure it took me awhile to find everything with the appropriate page numbers and organize it but now it’s done and easy to find exactly what I need.
I used a heavy card stock for the front and back covers and cut out the “title” in the front. I didn’t quite get the hole in the right spot but it’s good enough for me. (Unless my perfectionist self decides otherwise.)
The original manual is larger than letter sized paper so scanned it into my computer so I could resize it.
I included some Notes pages to the back in case I need to add anything..
Now when I need to find out how to make a buttonhole, I don’t have to scan the TOC. It’s right there in the index.
When I hit a snag in the stair refinishing project, I went to my BFF’s house for a few days to clear my head. Plus we hadn’t seen each other since 2013. Something always came up, like life.
She is the kind of friend that no matter how long it’s been since you last talked, wrote, or called, it’s like you were just together yesterday. Other than my sister and brother, she is my oldest and dearest friend.
I took a bottle of Chianti as I knew we were having lasagna for dinner with her friends. She’s not a wine drinker and surprise, surprise, neither were her friends! Um, I had to drink the bottle myself. It was a tough job but somebody had to do it. 🍷
We went to my favorite store: IKEA!!!! We also had Graeter’s ice cream 🍨 and Whit’s frozen custard. 🍦 We looked through Peddler’s Mall and Goodwill where I bought a 50th Anniversary banner and other gold decorations for our anniversary party for $2.00.
We played games like Tribond and Quiddler, giggled like school girls, and talked while imbibing cranberry juice and amoretto cocktails.
One of her friends gave her five or six HUGE tubs of fabric that her dear departed mother had. I went through and took what I thought I would use. I didn’t take much as I have so much fabric but already made two things for Pepper: a crate blanket and travel bag.
We packed in a ton of fun and memories in a few days. When I got back home, I was ready to finish the stair project.
Do you have a friend like that?
Knitting In Flashes 