Monday Message

"We have been taught that we should build our reserves over a period of time, that we should not go into debt to do so, that we should buy those things we use and use them on a rotation basis, that we should use common sense in preparing ourselves to be independent and self-reliant. There has never been extremism or fanaticism associated with these teachings." (Victor L. Brown)

The weeks seem to pass so quickly.

I have been continuing to organize here, a spring cleaning in the middle of winter perhaps to trick my brain into thinking it's spring even though it's terribly cold out.

Here are some pictures of the end of working in the sewing room. It was a bit of a job but now I have more elbow room.

I put the ironing station to the left of the sewing table. I hope it works for me. I have always had it to the right but I was working around the heat vent and trying to make more room. The other way made it so I could not use some of the drawers, so now no more of that.

I also organized the storeroom/closet. It houses canning equipment, dehydrators, some Christmas decorations and tubs of coned yarn and some fiber and fabric folded in nice neat twelve inch squares on the shelving...it really is a store room.  

Our house was built in 1879 with no closets. It was built in a town one mile away. That town was a thriving town and they thought the railroad would go there but it did not. It went a mile away and so people began moving their houses there and that is the town we live in. Our house was moved in 1910. They would cut trees and make them into logs. The houses were then raised up and placed on the logs. They would pull with teams of horses and as one log came out the back, they would run it around to the front. It is called the town that moved. It is still a town but not as big as it was back then.

They did a great job building it back then as it withstood the derecho and that was pretty bad.

So a long story to say no closets, so we use a small room.

It also did not have heating vents. We added those later, it had grates instead that let the heat rise through but I am here to say brrrrr, not much heat went up there till we added the vents.

I am still weaving on the green scarf.

I also fashioned a basket to fit onto the inkle loom. I wanted to be able to remove it when other warping configurations would need to be done so I used what I had on hand to make it so I could.

I also moved my living room around. It has been a full week.

There was a grocery pick-up in there too, a more messed up one there never was. Some has come in boxes but not all of it yet. The website was doing very weird things, kind of like playing whack-a-mole.

What things have you been up to this week where you live?

Gus is really interested in what goes on in your neck of the woods.

Missy says keep being very safe not time to let down your guard.