Chiara sent me this on my birthday, which I enjoyed:
My Dad and Donna came over and we all went to the Ladies’ game versus BG. When we got back, I got my presents, which was a jar of some sort of weird sauerkraut-looking stuff with other vegetables in it from Donna, and printers letters of my name from my dad. We watched the squirrels in the backyard for a while, The squirrels were pretty active:
Monday, I spent a lot of time trying to get some of the ice up on the sidewalk and the front walk to get ready for the storm we had last night. I also got my sewing machine out to work on my blackout curtain liners for my bedroom. I couldn’t find blackout liners the right size – I had some that were long enough but not wide enough at all (30″ is not wide enough for curtains 57″ wide. Plus, the Ikea curtains in there afford no good ways to attach the liner…drapery hooks are for lameos. SOOOOOO I found blackout curtain fabric by the yard on amazon and ordered up 8 yards (!). That was something like $102. Then I was trying to figure out the specifics of this project and realized I needed snap tape to attach the new liners I was going to make to the curtains. For the 114″ of snap tape I needed…$56. Plus I bought thread and bobbins and this project was stupid expensive. But! What I wanted was unavailable, and I made it happen after hours of work (I could not get the tension right working with that weird blackout fabric…plus the large curtain size was difficult to work with in general). I’m really pleased. As an added bonus, the curtain rod did not fall down when I hung the liners, and it looks so nice from the street.
We got a mijillionty inches of snow last night and into today. It was not timed like the weather people said, so last night before we went to bed, we at most had 2 inches of snow…and they had said we would have the bulk of it by then. This morning, then, was a shoveling shitshow. Luckily the lady across the street was a snowblowing fool earlier. I did not go back out today to take better pictures, but here are some pictures of what I would guess is 8-10″ of new snow:
Really the problem is still WHERE DO WE PUT THE SNOW?? All the shoveling is much more difficult here because you have to heave the snow over the giant mound that is already there.
THEN! Excitement…My Australian birthday package came! Here are various cats with my super cool loot:
Today, I finished my slated sewing projects by finally sewing a new drapy fabric piece for my desk room window. Â I am not entirely happy with it, but I can’t quite place what is wrong:
