Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Desultory day

I could have packed today, but still having tomorrow, little point. I'm certainly not the person I used to be.

Laundry was on my list, for a couple of days. Transporting even my little basket through two rooms, one handed, isn't fun. For a while I used the rollator, and that was convenient, save my great dislike of the thing. So easy to roll anything about the house. It's what I took to DC, so I could sit while the girls went off visiting Lincoln, Washington, and so forth and so on. That ended badly.

Actually, the rollator would be so convenient to use, except  it's so heavy and awkward. I cannot lift it into my car by myself, for instance, and once I  grew accustomed to two trips to transport my breakfast one handed I just was tired of seeing it hanging around the living room. I had Laura put it back in the shed, and I hone my one handed skills.


On one trip to the laundry room I noticed a package at my neighbor's door, across the way. On another trip, the package remained, so I called Cathy. "You have a package!" and we kept on chatting while she retrieved and opened it. Then a cry of dismay. Nothing she had ordered. The big reveal; it belonged one street over. Christmas will be over soon, and we hope Amazon delivery will improve after that.


I spent some of the day weaving. All my current stock is gone except one person I have not heard from, and one pair of pea green towels. I just realized the color is similar to this piece of packing tissue I ironed and hung on the wall. 


While exploring the whimsy, this little vase on the sewing table qualifies. While in Wisconsin last summer, we spent some time at a town with art shops down one side of the hill and back up the other. One studio made things from things. Laura came away with a picture frame from construction materials, and bolts and nails and all manner of one man's trash.


There was a box in the back of the room that said FREE, and full of things deemed useless detritus. This pretty little vase was both unbroken, and cheerful. The price was right, and I had a use for it. The shopkeeper even wrapped it in newspaper to protect it from all the metal parts of the picture frame in our bag. 

21 comments:

  1. Hari Om
    that is a fantastic little freebie! The father was having the same issues with his rollator... so whilst I over last time we got him a 'tripod' version for around the house. It is much lighter, takes less space and is considerably more manouverable. He was happy enough with it he actually came shopping with me for the first time this year... YAM xx

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  2. Your towels are proudly wiping up spills from all manner of things in my, the two girls, kitchens. Gracias, amigo.

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  3. Amazon has a lot of answer for in the coming days. They lost all of my daughters gifts for her 8 year old son.

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  4. I been slowly and I'm shouting the word slowly...getting rid of what I call junk and hopeful some will find use for it.
    Coffee is on

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  5. That is a delightful freebie.
    I haven't used Amazon for anything this Christmas, which sounds like a lucky escape.

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  6. That is a lovely vase/container you retrieved from the free box. I really like the colour and one can use it for so many things. I also love the tea towels. They look great in all colours but my favourite thing in your photos is that wonderful cross stitch on the bench where you sit and weave. I noticed it in an earlier post but forgot to mention it. I wish you good packing and a light load in getting ready to go. It is a pain to pack even when one has use of both arms. Right now my right wrist and elbow is so sore and I am also experiencing limited use. One really appreciates their limbs and so on when they no longer have use of them.

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  7. Someone else with desultory posts! I love it...Wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas time! Amazon is almost impossible to contact and I have the weird problem that they have issued refunds for several things which were delivered to me...But they think they were not delivered. They are having a bit of a mess, and a lot of it seems impossible to fix. There is something else not refunded, but also not delivered. Bah! And humbug!

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  8. Every so often I think I should jump on the internet purchasing bandwagon, and then I hear a story like this one about Amazon's delivery and I'm glad I still only buy what I can touch and examine and smell in person.

    The colour of the work you have on the loom now is so lovely. And why on earth were they giving away that rooster piece?! But lucky for you that they were :)

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    1. I think it was acquired to be broken into colorful bits to adorn some other creation.

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  9. bodies are lazy things. when you quit using them, they quit working so putting the rollator away was probably a good thing. your towels are so happy looking.

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  10. Yes, like you I no longer bound out of the car. Often I just sit there for a while. I climb stairs in stages too. I have a picture of the terracotta towel in its new home. :)

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  11. That little vase was quite a find - and you've put it to excellent use. Have a good Christmas!

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  12. What a whimsical, adorable little vase! And free too--a real treasure.

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  13. A very nice vase.

    My Amazon deliveries have been efficient enough. But I'm annoyed that they keep trying to enrol me in Amazon Prime which I have no need for. I did in fact inadvertently subscribe at one point, and then had to rapidly unsubscribe.

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  14. Love the pic of your green towels (greens and blues are my favorite kitchen colors). And no, I'm not hinting... or maybe I am. How would you like to exchange one of your towels for a Cheeky Chicken or two? - later in the year of course. Have a great Christmas!

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  15. Even the spools of threads are lovely. How can I order some towels?

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  16. Safe travels to Wisconsin. Have a wonderful Christmas!

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  17. I was thinking the towels were 'herb green' when I first saw the color.

    We received a package from Amazon that was empty save for the packaging that would have normally held the missing product. Weird. -also difficult was to find a place on the website through which to register that the item had not actually been delivered. I figured, too, that it was a holiday snafu of some sort.

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  18. Delivery mistakes - inconvenience most of the time but since prescriptions come through the mail it can more serious. Not very long ago I had a package of pills delivered here. It was off by several streets.

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  19. Safe travels, Joanne. Your towels are the beautifying my kitchen. I smile every time I see them, and I think of you. Thanks again.

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