🎶Chim Chiminey, Chim Chim Chiree🎶

Meet Nettle the Rabbit and see her dressed up for Halloween in her black cat mask!  Our slumber party was a success and Melany and I figured out how to make her.  Melany did all the sewing…I just helped her know how to run the sewing machine!  We had a good time and even stitched a little last night before we went to bed.  

Around noon, Nathan called to say that the chimney person was supposed to come sometime in the next two hours.  Nathan came by in the middle of that time to check on things, but had some errands to run and projects to work on so he went on after he visited a while and it was almost through the two hour span.  Melany and I took in all the decorations in the front of the house because my handyman is supposed to come either today or tomorrow to power wash the rails around the front porch.  So our part is finished to be ready t job to happen.  We then went in to fix a late lunch…we had eaten a late breakfast!  And, the chimney person arrived.  First…the chimney person that Nathan had talked to had not seen the correct chimney on Zillow…he had looked at Nathan and Kathy's former home next door.  He was none too happy to see the height of our chimney.  He told me afterwards that chimneys that high always scare him even if he is used to doing the job.  But he got to work…found out that the cap on our chimney was just fine, that it just needed to have the screening replaced and then sealed and he suggested having the chimney swept/cleaned (reason for the Mary Poppins' chimney sweep song reference for the tonight's title).  He said since animals had been down in the chimney, it would be a good idea to have it swept…to which I agreed.  He got another surprise, other than the height of our chimney, there was a wasp nest.  I don’t think that any of them got him, but he did get them taken care of!  So hopefully several problems have been taken care of…stop squirrels descents, eliminate a wasp nest, and make it safe for me to have a fire in my fireplace, if the need should arise.  All that and I got by for less than quoted since he didn't have to put a new cap on the chimney. So hopefully a win-win all around! Glad to have that over and done with!

Now to get the new front door painted and the porch railings…

I’m getting ready to settle in for the evening…going to make a hot cup of tea and pick up my stitching and looking forward to Elsbeth being back on the air tonight!  I’ll get back to Sunday's Sunday School lesson tomorrow! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

She's Sewing!

We've been busy…haven't gotten real far…we've been doing preparation steps so now the sewing can commence!  This photo shows her practicing on my machine so she can sew on the real project soon.  She is making a cross stitched rabbit, who is dressing up for Halloween as a cat.  Melany got the cat mask finished a little while ago…so one part done…that was done by hand…no machine sewing.  So she is going in the right direction with her cross stitch pieces.  So far I think she is pleased with the progress she has made at this point in our slumber party! Wonder how long till we slumber!  (I did take a little snooze this afternoon while she hand stitched the mask.)

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

A Bookish Day

Today centered around an invitation to The Friends of the Shelbyville Library Author Luncheon.  Linda H. invited Donna and I to go to this luncheon.  So Donna and I set aside First Baptist Church Library workday for a library event of another kind.  We got fed better than we get when we go to the church library!  We sat at a table with Linda's son and daughter-in-law and her sister.  We met at a designated spot and parked our car and Linda's son was our uber driver to the event.  The guest author, J.C. White, gave a very interesting talk about himself and his book, Dandelion Wine.  We enjoyed our lunch while listening to him talk.  A good time, I believe, was had by all.  Always nice to get together with friends!  

I will admit to giving in to a nap after my return home.  Once refreshed I got back to preparing for my next "event," the slumber party with Melany.  She and I have talked making final plans for our sewing/stitching time together tomorrow and Thursday.

Update on my chimney cap: I did get quote via text which I signed and accepted…so hopefully it is ordered and will be installed before too much longer!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Measured With Zillow??

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Today has been a day to try to get ahead.  I have a lot going on this week and have added in the Sunday School lesson.  So today I spent quite a bit of time trying to read the study helps that are provided for Sunday School teachers.  I have gotten underway with them…I guess I have about 1 1/2 of the lesson helps left to read.  But I do have a good start on preparation.  I even got the outline plugged into my iPad Pages app…a very empty outline at the moment…but a start!

I also worked some more on getting things ready for Melany's and my sewing/stitching sessions and our slumber party.  The sewing cutting table is ready for some cutting if needed.  I watched a couple of YouTube videos on how to finish the project that Melany is bringing…something that neither of us has done before.  We have to decide, too, if we might do the Christmas stocking that Melany brought me a while back to finish for her.  I know she sort of wants to learn how to make a stocking.  We'll see what time will allow.

I have had several texts and phone calls about the projects that are supposed to happen around here.  The chimney capping man hadn't gotten in touch with us by 2:30pm.  Nathan asked him to come after 1pm today.  Well, the person who is supposed to do it called him back a bit after Nathan called.  He needed to know what exactly we needed done…guess there wasn’t much communication between the office and the worker.  Nathan explained to him that we needed a new cap on the top of the chimney to keep unwanted creatures out.  He then told Nathan that he had measured and knew what size and how much it would cost. Now I was confused when Nathan said he had measured!  I asked Nathan when had he come and I had missed him.  Oh, no, he didn’t need to come…he had looked the house up on Zillow and knew what he needed to order?  I am confused…as my house is usually totally covered by trees.  Nathan questioned him as to which house he had looked at…Nathan's former house next door or my house.  He assured him that it was mine.  Nathan told him to go ahead and order.  When it comes in he will come do the work. Well, no money has exchanged hands…so if wrong size or he never shows, we're only out the time we have waited. 🙄  Nathan wondered to me why this measuring procedure hadn’t been done from the start…lack of coordination between office and worker?  I am wondering about this whole thing!!!

While waiting for the worker to come to measure, I read things for the Sunday School lesson.  And, I got a text from my handyman telling me he is ready to pressure wash the porch railing…Thursday or Friday…so he can paint next week.  All projects getting underway at once! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sunday Favorite Alaskan Photo

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Saturday

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We did get some rain in the night…enough to register in the rain gauge…around 1”.  That’s the most we have gotten in quite a while.  

I have spent a good part of the afternoon in the sewing room…getting ready for a sewing session with Melany.  She has her Fall break this coming week and she plans to come here midweek and we are going to have a slumber party…she'll come one day and spend the night and then spend part of the next day and we will spend it sewing and finishing some of her needlework projects…at least that is our plan. We'll have fun whatever we end up doing.  While dabbling around in the sewing room, I have been listening to another audio book.  Reading and cleaning…killing two birds with one stone!

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

The Flue Guy Has The Flu…

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Tonight's photo shows the view that greeted me this morning when I opened the blinds in the kitchen. And, I noticed as I drove into town today that the upper branches of many of the trees are beginning to show their Fall colors.

Tonight's blog title is Nathan's play on words when he called to tell me that the chimney folk would not be coming today.  So now…maybe Monday sometime after 1pm, if they are well.  My message till then: "Squirrels stay away!"

Once Nathan called to tell me that they weren’t coming today I headed out to Kroger.  I had more shopping to do than usual, as I hadn't been grocery shopping in two weeks.  I had quite a few empty spaces in my refrigerator and pantry.  I came home and first got the cold things put away, then had lunch, and later got the rest put away.  

This morning while I waited for the chimney people, I got Fall decorations put out on the front porch…changed the pillow covers, put up a Fall yard flag, put out a couple of pumpkins on the tables, and put the stacked pumpkin decoration on the front door.  I’ll post a picture another night. I brought the summer pillow covers and yard flag in and washed them.  They are now dry and I’ll get them put away after I blog.  I did another load of wash, too and that is put away.  So I have been fairly busy today. 

I’m ready to sit down and stitch this evening.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!