AND THEN THERE'S MONDAY

What does one do on Monday? There's not much traffic on Rug Hooking Daily on Mondays.  I did the usual household chores and I normally have people for lunch and because of my busy schedule I make lunch time my big meal of the day and the last meal of the day is usually light, again because of my schedule.

Today I made a big pot of vegetable beef soup because it was chilly and I was craving a nice chunky soup. This time I did add chili and it's very good. As luck would have it I was all alone for lunch. No one came to eat, not even my husband. He went to town to get his hair cut, get some new cells phones even a black berry for my son and to get his passport renewed and expected to be back on time for lunch. It took him until late in the afternoon. I'll spare you the red tape details to get a passport renewed these days.
I weeded a fair size chunk out of my out of control flower bed and called it quit for that chore for today then went to do my afternoon barn chores. This evening again I'm alone and sipping on a nice cup of camomile tea to slow me down and I managed to take apart three wool skirts. One  grey, one tan and the other is a nice burgundy plaid and was pleated so I got lots of beautiful wool from this one. So... I'm happy. My basket is full to the brim and my husband just arrived with some red and white wine, so I switched to a nice glass of red wine to s-l-o-w me down.    Mondays aren't that bad after all.  JB

DON'T YOU JUST HATE IT WHEN...

Today was  a very good day. I slept unusually well and only woke up once around 3:00 a.m. and went right back to sleep after a trip to know where... At 5:00 a.m. I was wide awake and jumped out of bed... well that may be a little exaggerated... I got vertical,  made my bed went to the bathroom ... brushed my teeth etc. I usually wake up around 6:30 and turn on the other side  and sometimes I'm too tired to get up and fall back asleep and get up in a panic... cause I'm late for work.

Today, Sunday I was ahead of the game. Got my Swiffer and dusted the floors in two bedrooms, two bathrooms and two hallways and the stairs. I folded some laundry and put another load of socks and under-wares  in the dryer, checked my emails and blog and did all this in my PJs while my husband snored in the other room. I put on my work clothes and went to the farm to do my chores and shortly after my husband George came to help me. After the chores my husband and I  went to our favorite restaurant for breakfast with friends we hadn't seen for a while and then we went went to church as usual.

Why was I so up-beat you ask?...  I'm not 100% sure but it must be because today I was going to meet Heidi Wulfratt  of London-Wul  at Yarns on York here in Fredericton for a Summer wind up knit-in with knitters from all over. I didn't had any knitting to work on but met some people who knows my daughter and took courses from her or bought her scarves or dyed wool etc.  I had a great time and was amazed at all the beautiful yarns there was to choose from and the variety of knitting project and a sweet little 5 weeks old baby in the mix.

 Actually I got the buzz from Heidi about this event  and she said that she'd be there around 2 ish so I arrived around that time.  I wanted to take pictures for my blog but in my haste, I left my camera in my office  and only realized that I  didn't had it with me when I went to reach for it in my purse. Nobody was taking pictures. Don't you just hate it when that happens?

 I was so happy to see Heidi again however that it really didn't matter. We had a lengthy conversation, laughed and exchanged several hugs and it made my day very special. Unfortunately I had to return to work around 4:00pm but happy I went.  Hope that you all had a safe trip back home Heidi and friends. JB