Well, i haven't been outside the house since Monday afternoon 2pm. that's the time it started raining....and then sleeting.....and sleeting.....and sleeting mostly through Tuesday. it was tiny, almost just misty....but sleet just the same. we have about an inch of sleet or perhaps a bit more. the only tracks at our house involve going out the back door, across the covered porch and around the corner for about 6 feet to the wood stove.
I tried sweeping sleet but it doesn't sweep. i tried scraping with the snow shovel but that doesn't work either. we had about half a little bag of salt that i tried to put out. somehow it had frozen into a huge hunk of salt that i couldn't break up. how can it do that if it is supposed to melt the ice. i put the hunk of salt on the ice...nothing. it just sits there looking stupid. and i feel even stupider for trying it. dh says stupider isn't a word.....i say it is.
Last night it started snowing a bit....tiny flakes all blowing around. i went to sleep about 1am and it was still going. but this morning...thankfully, there isn't much snow. you can still see weeds out in the pasture up the hill...that's my measure for how deep it is. LOL and the front deck only has a couple inches.
All day yesterday i was at my sewing machine. i cut out some very graphic black and white fabrics and made a zentangle quilt top. very cute. then i dug into the box of projects that i brought over. there were large tumbler blocks of Laurel Burch fabrics and all the colors to match. i put that top together, too.
Then last night i started piecing something else. i drew it in EQ sometime in 2008, cut out hundreds of pieces and then put it in the box. there are 6" hexagons and 3" triangles that were cut with my AccuCut machine. no instructions. i had a picture....looked easy enough. figured out i have to stitch 4 triangles to each hexagon and then cut them off to square the edges. picture had 99 or so blocks. i only had enough triangles for 54 blocks. bad word...bad word.. apparantly my brain didn't figure out how many triangles to cut. and that fabric is long gone by now. so plan B goes into effect for a much smaller quilt. then...i still have all the rest of those hexs to do something with. it's never easy....is it?
In between all that.....i made cookies. i had to...the snow demanded it. when you can't get out of the house ....for amusement i make cookies. you've seen those recipes where you put the stuff in a jar, label it for someone to add butter, an egg and vanilla...and then make wonderful cookies. i sold lots of those jars at craft shows. i still had about 4 jars left from last year. when i had made them before they seemed a bit dry and hard to mix with just one stick of melted butter and 1 egg. so i increased it to 2 eggs and added about a 1/4 cup oil. much easier to mix and they tasted much better, too. made about 3.5 dozen. half of those are gone this morning....we are a cookie house. LOL
Thankfully we didn't get the huge amounts of snow that other places in missouri and illinois got. but hubby is bummed....he wanted to make more snow ice cream. he got a few gallons out of the last snow. i think he was going to stock up for summer....there goes my tupperware containers. LOL but there is no recipe for sleet ice cream and that is mainly what we have....sleet. i just get my ice cream from the grocery store.....nobody peed on it....at least i like to think that they didn't.
Although i have a camera at the house it is not doing me any good since my software to get the pics out of the camera and into the computer is at the studio and i can't get there. i can see the studio from the house.....it's just across the road....well, down a looong driveway....500 feet....and across the road. but i can't get there. our house sits on a hill....the driveway is downhill...a hill full of sleet....(maybe if i had a sled)....nah, that won't help. the driveway has a curve and my luck i wouldn't make the curve and would wind up in the trees in the ditch. i don't think these old bones would handle that so well. i am always leary of falling and breaking a hip or something. i've lived 60 something years so far without a broken bone and want to keep it that way. so, no pictures till i can get out.....hopefully tomorrow. i'll definitely be ready by then. i tried a nap twice yesterday and it didn't work either time. the first time i just couldn't fall asleep...the second time the phone rang just as i got comfy. no rest for the wicked.
So, all you get today are words....just picture it all in your head...you can do it. and picture a cookie or two, also....i'll share. now i'm gonna go back to the sewing machine and see what else i can get into. i saw a take 5 pattern all cut out in that box yesterday...think i'll work on that. oh....that hexagon top you ask...?? well, it can go back into the box for a while till it germinates some more. i don't want to think too much today.
Stay warm. i'm certainly happy that i don't have school age children at home that are having a snow day from school. if you do.....i feel for you....better you than me. sorry...LOL
