A Quiet Town
Out little town is quite quiet for a Saturday.
There is a whole lot of humming being done by mowers. Two inches of a needed rain will do that for yards. Our yards will be in for mowing sometime next week.
This forenoon, I took my handheld clippers and clipped off a lot of volunteer trees. I know they will be back. I just wanted the instant gratification of not having to look at them for a time. The Elm, Maple, Oak and Black Walnut got whacked. I took no favorites. I need to do a Lena. Mom had her ways. With rubber gloves on, she would have brush killer full strength. She would dip a rag in the brush killer and wipe and swipe the leaves of the naughty volunteers. It may have taken awhile for the effect to get to the stem and then the root. Lena was a patient person. The next sighting of a few trees, I am going to try to give them a treatment.
The sewing machine needed some TLC after a diligent job done well. A new needle, oil syringe, soft brushes . . . I went to work. Behind the bobbin case, with a pair of long-handled tweezers, I got a ball of lint that was hiding. Success! No sewing today. I did decide on a piece of tan suede fabric to make the pillow with for Megan’s cat to be appliqued onto it. I have the name “William” loaded from the Bernina Tool Box onto a flash drive for the embroidery to be done. As it is a small design, I plan on doing a prototype of the stitching first on a scrape of suede to make sure I have enough stabilizer on the back so it will lay totally flat with no puckering with the applique that is lying flat. You know . . . don’t have time to do it right, but always time to do it over.
Dennis tells me the air feels cool. It is the type of cool that I most enjoy on this spring Saturday.
With that I will take my leave.♥