This felt rather like a normal Saturday. I was busy all day doing one thing or another (of course, I did sit at the computer a little too).
I started out with my first "job", post dishes of course, being the not too large ironing pile. To tell the truth, the only reason I tackled that job was because I was beginning to feel the pinch of most of my shirts being in the ironing pile. Since I wear primarily cotton button up shirts, if the ironing doesn't get done regularly (in Florida, Savannah and I were each ironing our own clothes), I start to notice a thinning choice-wise in the clothing department. I'm really having that issue since I didn't bring that many clothes with me, thinking I was going back, and I haven't collected too many more yet. I listened to Charlie Zham most of the time, even trying to sing along (believe me, that didn't sound too grand). That CD sure has gotten a work-out this past week and a half what with my sewing and all. :) I'm glad I went back and got my own CD at the Reformation Day Faire...
Lunch was the next thing in order (one of my three favorite meals); the usual dishes job followed on the heels of post-lunch coffee. Some of us sat around and bandied a little more on the script idea Mama had. Savannah is doing most of the work on it really, but I'm always game for throwing in an idea or two. I did a little more doll dress embellishing while she wrote and bounced things off me and got started weaving in the ends of my latest pair of socks. (They've been done for two weeks at least!)
I cleaned the back bathroom/laundry room and the mudroom. I really actually kind of like cleaning the bathroom for some strange reason. I got some of the rusty colored stuff (whatever it is) off the shower which made me happy. I don't ever remember having my wrists (primarily the right one) start to hurt as fast as it does now when scrubbing or putting a lot of concentrated pressure on it. I guess that must just be some remnant from breaking it...
The cat has been kind of ornery today...I heard her sharpening her claws on a chair in the other room and bounced up to go stop her. She took refuge under the sewing machine cabinet (which doesn't have a machine in it), so I reach under and hauled her out--in the processes, I got the inside of my leg clawed (by accident). Later in the day, she kept swatting at my feet from under a blanket that was thrown over a chair. That was kind of funny. :)
I went out twice today (once in the morning and once in the afternoon) to check the chicken's water since it's freezing weather. I need a pair of gloves...perhaps I ought to dig out those blue things from wherever I poked them. I took a pan of "slop" up the hill and dumped in in the garden and decided not to take the ashes up because my fingers and legs were so cold (just below the knee skirts really aren't the warmest when the wind is chilly and blowy).
I helped Mama peel beets and squash (both cooked) before vaccuming the den and kitchen. I had to clean the beater bar before I could vaccum though. That is one thing about a house full of long-haired women...you have to clean the beater bars and shower drains out a little more frequently than you might actually like to! :D I really don't mind either job, so it doesn't really bother me, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to use the vaccum cleaner more than two or three times before needing to take the thing apart again.
I am now looking forward to supper (another of my three favorite meals ;])...
I started out with my first "job", post dishes of course, being the not too large ironing pile. To tell the truth, the only reason I tackled that job was because I was beginning to feel the pinch of most of my shirts being in the ironing pile. Since I wear primarily cotton button up shirts, if the ironing doesn't get done regularly (in Florida, Savannah and I were each ironing our own clothes), I start to notice a thinning choice-wise in the clothing department. I'm really having that issue since I didn't bring that many clothes with me, thinking I was going back, and I haven't collected too many more yet. I listened to Charlie Zham most of the time, even trying to sing along (believe me, that didn't sound too grand). That CD sure has gotten a work-out this past week and a half what with my sewing and all. :) I'm glad I went back and got my own CD at the Reformation Day Faire...
Lunch was the next thing in order (one of my three favorite meals); the usual dishes job followed on the heels of post-lunch coffee. Some of us sat around and bandied a little more on the script idea Mama had. Savannah is doing most of the work on it really, but I'm always game for throwing in an idea or two. I did a little more doll dress embellishing while she wrote and bounced things off me and got started weaving in the ends of my latest pair of socks. (They've been done for two weeks at least!)
I cleaned the back bathroom/laundry room and the mudroom. I really actually kind of like cleaning the bathroom for some strange reason. I got some of the rusty colored stuff (whatever it is) off the shower which made me happy. I don't ever remember having my wrists (primarily the right one) start to hurt as fast as it does now when scrubbing or putting a lot of concentrated pressure on it. I guess that must just be some remnant from breaking it...
The cat has been kind of ornery today...I heard her sharpening her claws on a chair in the other room and bounced up to go stop her. She took refuge under the sewing machine cabinet (which doesn't have a machine in it), so I reach under and hauled her out--in the processes, I got the inside of my leg clawed (by accident). Later in the day, she kept swatting at my feet from under a blanket that was thrown over a chair. That was kind of funny. :)
I went out twice today (once in the morning and once in the afternoon) to check the chicken's water since it's freezing weather. I need a pair of gloves...perhaps I ought to dig out those blue things from wherever I poked them. I took a pan of "slop" up the hill and dumped in in the garden and decided not to take the ashes up because my fingers and legs were so cold (just below the knee skirts really aren't the warmest when the wind is chilly and blowy).
I helped Mama peel beets and squash (both cooked) before vaccuming the den and kitchen. I had to clean the beater bar before I could vaccum though. That is one thing about a house full of long-haired women...you have to clean the beater bars and shower drains out a little more frequently than you might actually like to! :D I really don't mind either job, so it doesn't really bother me, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to use the vaccum cleaner more than two or three times before needing to take the thing apart again.
I am now looking forward to supper (another of my three favorite meals ;])...
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