HOUSE
- Quick and Easy
- DONE Sewing Room - WHB
- DONE Back Stairs - WHB
- Detailed
- Kitchen (NOT counting dining area) - Zone
- Declutter
- DONE Side porch - Finish decluttering and clean
- Study
GARDEN
Yesterday I decided to machine quilt my bindings. After having removed all the bindings sewn on the FRONT of the placemats, I moved and pinned the bindings to the BACK of the placemats. And then proceeded to TRY to sew them on. The blasted machine wouldn't feed! Muttering a few words, I checked the feed dogs. Were they down? So I clicked them. Nope. And went to put them back up again. They wouldn't move! So remembering that the machine re-sets itself to default, I turned the machine OFF again and on and checked. STILL wouldn't feed. So muttering MORE words (I have an extensive vocabulary in this area - social work does that to you!) I removed the thread plate screws and the thread plate, bobbin case - and OH MY! Then grabbed (quickly, mind you!) the lint brush and removed all that mess (WHERE did it all come from?) Really cleaned that lint out of there - then put the thing back together again - aligning the bobbin case arrow with the dot on my machine (this is a mistake - I know!). Put the whole thing together again, tightening the screws, and tried to sew. Not only would it NOT feed (yes - I had thread) but now it had a real snarl of thread caught under the threadplate - where I couldn't get it!
So I CALMLY (hahaha!) take that blasted - uh - the thread plate OFF, check alignment (AGAIN!) on bobbin and move SLIGHTLY off center (this has a marking that is NOT to be trusted!). Pray!
Put it back together again! Pray!
Put the screws in. Pray!
TEST on scrap piece of cloth I don't want (has to be a don't want because if this doesn't work - I will cut it into a million pieces!!!!)
Pray!
This whole routine went on for something like an hour. Threadplate ON, threadplate OFF and my face kept getting redder and redder. Honestly - if the window had been open, my machine would have had to learn to fly!
Other than that - continue slicing and dicing. Get fabrics all sliced and diced for next step in quilting.
Spend NO MORE than an hour on straightening/slicing/dicing!
CALMLY sew Hexie flowers for an audio disc
I can't do the bindings that way since I took them all off and was in the process of doing them by machine (grrrrr!)
Tame the frustrated monster by doing rip-its (gently, gently) to any project needing that!
KITCHEN
Make cookies
DONE Make bread
Make cake - week's baking
DONE Make the Brazilian black bean soup I didn't make last night!
Process the Jerusalem artichokes I didn't process the other day! HAS to be done today!
Clean that refrigerator! Oh my!
MENU
DONE B: Rolled oats with raisins, hot chocolate (for just because and because yesterday's quilting was from H.....)
L: DONE Brazilian Black bean soup, MAYBE egg salad on crackers
D: DONE Ate chicken mustard burger - not bad! Homemade bread
- Weed
- DONE Salad stuff
- DONE Transplant remaining celery
- Orchard trees (2)
- Put down Landscape fabric between orchard trees
- Plant hot peppers between trees (3 or 4 kinds)
- Clear side fence - front and back half and trim tops
- Put down Landscape fabric along side fence
- Plant Iris
- Plant Bee Balm
- Herbs
- Determine herbs preferring sun
- Define NE area well
- Weed
- DONE Cabbage stuff
- hold Transplant any seedlings - They are too small and some areas still coming up
(Garden has now been completely WEEDED at this point! Still needs mowing - grass - and transplanting and the fence rows cleared!)
- Clear back fence
- Put down Landscape fabric along back fence
- Plant rest of Iris
- Clean up and move around herbs
- Transplant remaining herbs
- Define NW area well
STUDIES
I am WAYYyyy behind on this. Have this week to either catch up - or start over keeping track! which I can do since this is a self-designed course and something I WANT to do! Math I want to review and eventually work my way through calculus. Russian I truly want to be able to converse with some of my neighbours (Spanish and Arabic too for that matter - but one language at a time - can do more than one at a time - BUT it is a matter of TIME!) Botany I want to do since I am gardening and remember virtually zilch of my schooling! Social Studies - I really want to do this - am having a VERY hard time getting a lap book done - which is a sort of review of everything I'm learning - not because it's hard "has to be perfect" way of thinking - instead of "good enough" and "get 'er done" So am considering THAT one to have a dual purpose - one being studies of the earth's past - and the other - to learn to "tame" that Perfection required way of thinking to a realistic level! Religion I want to go through and re-learn - because obviously - I am NOT that observant - but need to review WHERE I am, WHAT I believe, and work on my level of belief as well as stepping out of my comfort zone and proceeding one step further.
As for yesterday I didn't spend a lot of time on my studies - and really need to work on these today. Will re-align my studies for the rest of the week tonight
I am WAYYyyy behind on this. Have this week to either catch up - or start over keeping track! which I can do since this is a self-designed course and something I WANT to do! Math I want to review and eventually work my way through calculus. Russian I truly want to be able to converse with some of my neighbours (Spanish and Arabic too for that matter - but one language at a time - can do more than one at a time - BUT it is a matter of TIME!) Botany I want to do since I am gardening and remember virtually zilch of my schooling! Social Studies - I really want to do this - am having a VERY hard time getting a lap book done - which is a sort of review of everything I'm learning - not because it's hard "has to be perfect" way of thinking - instead of "good enough" and "get 'er done" So am considering THAT one to have a dual purpose - one being studies of the earth's past - and the other - to learn to "tame" that Perfection required way of thinking to a realistic level! Religion I want to go through and re-learn - because obviously - I am NOT that observant - but need to review WHERE I am, WHAT I believe, and work on my level of belief as well as stepping out of my comfort zone and proceeding one step further.
As for yesterday I didn't spend a lot of time on my studies - and really need to work on these today. Will re-align my studies for the rest of the week tonight
Math -
- lesson 43
- lesson 44
Botany
- WOP
- Chapter 2 - graphic organizer
- Chloroplasts
- lab 2-1
- Plant ID
- DONE CB 3
- DONE CB 4
- CB 5
Social Sciences -
- DONE Nova film - The Beginning (this is a Netflix disc and I REALLY need to get it back!
QUILT
Language Arts
- Lesson 9 - Pre
- Lesson 9-1
- Lesson 9-2
- Lesson 9-3
- Lesson 9-4
- Lesson 9-5
Russian - Lesson 8 Religion - Shabbat
- H2R 46-65
- SWS 15, 23, 71
Yesterday I decided to machine quilt my bindings. After having removed all the bindings sewn on the FRONT of the placemats, I moved and pinned the bindings to the BACK of the placemats. And then proceeded to TRY to sew them on. The blasted machine wouldn't feed! Muttering a few words, I checked the feed dogs. Were they down? So I clicked them. Nope. And went to put them back up again. They wouldn't move! So remembering that the machine re-sets itself to default, I turned the machine OFF again and on and checked. STILL wouldn't feed. So muttering MORE words (I have an extensive vocabulary in this area - social work does that to you!) I removed the thread plate screws and the thread plate, bobbin case - and OH MY! Then grabbed (quickly, mind you!) the lint brush and removed all that mess (WHERE did it all come from?) Really cleaned that lint out of there - then put the thing back together again - aligning the bobbin case arrow with the dot on my machine (this is a mistake - I know!). Put the whole thing together again, tightening the screws, and tried to sew. Not only would it NOT feed (yes - I had thread) but now it had a real snarl of thread caught under the threadplate - where I couldn't get it!
So I CALMLY (hahaha!) take that blasted - uh - the thread plate OFF, check alignment (AGAIN!) on bobbin and move SLIGHTLY off center (this has a marking that is NOT to be trusted!). Pray!
Put it back together again! Pray!
Put the screws in. Pray!
TEST on scrap piece of cloth I don't want (has to be a don't want because if this doesn't work - I will cut it into a million pieces!!!!)
Pray!
This whole routine went on for something like an hour. Threadplate ON, threadplate OFF and my face kept getting redder and redder. Honestly - if the window had been open, my machine would have had to learn to fly!
Other than that - continue slicing and dicing. Get fabrics all sliced and diced for next step in quilting.
Spend NO MORE than an hour on straightening/slicing/dicing!
CALMLY sew Hexie flowers for an audio disc
I can't do the bindings that way since I took them all off and was in the process of doing them by machine (grrrrr!)
Tame the frustrated monster by doing rip-its (gently, gently) to any project needing that!
KITCHEN
Make cookies
DONE Make bread
Make cake - week's baking
DONE Make the Brazilian black bean soup I didn't make last night!
Process the Jerusalem artichokes I didn't process the other day! HAS to be done today!
Clean that refrigerator! Oh my!
MENU
DONE B: Rolled oats with raisins, hot chocolate (for just because and because yesterday's quilting was from H.....)
L: DONE Brazilian Black bean soup, MAYBE egg salad on crackers
D: DONE Ate chicken mustard burger - not bad! Homemade bread
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