Sewing and Strawberries

I worked on a curtain project yesterday morning. Our neighbor has two areas in his house that he wants to be able to curtain off for guests. The curtains he purchased were too long and needed to be hemmed. One of the areas has a textured stone floor, and he asked if I could also reinforce the bottoms of the curtains to keep the hems from fraying. I went over there last week and we pinned the curtains to the proper length. Yesterday morning, I cut the excess off each panel and ran the bottom edge through the Bernina serger before folding a 2” wide piece of twill tape over it and sewing it down on the 1541. (I found 2” wide dark brown twill tape on Etsy to match the curtains.) The twill tape will keep the bottom edges from fraying and also add some weight. The whole project went quickly and smoothly and I was able to return the curtains to him yesterday afternoon.

Yesterday’s mail brought a lovely thank-you note from Robin’s granddaughter.

Robin asked me last month if I could repair her granddaughter’s dress. This young lady had paid for half of it with her own money, but they first time she wore it, the dress caught on something and ripped. She was heartbroken. The dress had a tiered skirt and I was able to shorten one of the tiers and remove the torn area.

I am not interested in opening an alterations and repair service, but I don’t mind doing small projects for friends.

I also worked on grocery bags. In another day or two, I’ll have a respectable stack to sell at the co-op sale in September. And I am plowing through the fabric stash, which is also great. The bags are canvas with a quilt cotton lining.

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I just looked at the camera roll on my phone. The last half-dozen pictures are all of forest animals. I snapped this one yesterday morning:

I think Mr. and Mrs. Bunny Foo-Foo—we’ve seen two of them—are living under our porch. I hear thumping noises under there every so often, usually followed by one or the other of them making an appearance in the yard. They are welcome to live here as long as long as they stay out of the garden.

I also spotted another ground squirrel in the front yard. Hopefully it is the last of that group and we can dispatch it soon.

I did not see any snakes in the chicken coop yesterday.

These have been part of my breakfast every morning:

I just have to make sure I get out to the strawberry patch before the rest of the wildlife wakes up. I’m not a big fruit eater but I do love strawberries.

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The insurance adjuster is scheduled to stop by this morning to take a look at the BMW. The at-fault driver’s insurance company had my cell phone number in their system with a wrong last digit. I was able to call and make an appointment with him. I’d like to get that taken care of, although we’ve had such a rash of serious car accidents here in the Flathead recently—some with fatalities—that I am sure it’s only a matter of time before someone runs into me again. I’m at the point where I’m reluctant to go out on the roads both because of all the tourists and because of the way people are driving. Most of these accidents have involved out-of-state vehicles and drivers.