Sewcializing

Our sewing group meets on Thursday at the community center up the road, but this week, we had our annual birthday potluck at the home of one of our members. She has a lovely house with plenty of seating. The food—as usual—was awesome. One of the women made strawberry Jello pretzel dessert and I had two helpings. So good.

The husband is baffled by this kind of socializing. Men don’t do this. He knows that the quilt store hosts “open sew” on Thursdays and that a group of women spends the day there. Some of them even keep a machine at the store so they don’t have to lug one back and forth. He wonders how much sewing gets done. I was at the quilt store Thursday morning before heading to the potluck and a group of women was getting ready for “Quilt ‘Til You Wilt” weekend, which is open sew on steroids and lasts for three days. I mentioned the husband’s observation to my friend Nancy, and she said, “If I wanted to sit and sew in silence, I could do that at home.”

And that sums it up in a nutshell.

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I weeded the garden for a few hours yesterday morning. This little bug was hanging out on the potatoes:

I call these ladybugs but I know they might actually be Asian lady beetles. I am not particular as long as they eat the aphids.

I watered all the apple trees. The Lodi has a bumper crop this year, although it’s a bit hard to tell from the photo:

These will all get made into pie filling. The other apple trees are taking a year off.

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I’m still puttering in the sewing room and have nothing to show for my efforts. I might, in another day or two.

Today is the national launch party for the Bernina 990. Bernina dealers all over the US are hosting events in their stores. Our dealer is also having a party, although I’m not going. I’ve been in town too many times this week and have no desire to battle tourist traffic on a Saturday. I’ll work in the garden some this morning, then come in and sew.