Yawn

The National Weather Service has lost all credibility with me. I live in Montana. It snows here. Every system that comes through is not bringing the end of the world with it. From now on, I think I’ll just look out the window to see what the weather is doing.

Get off my lawn, LOL.

DD#1 and DSIL put in an offer on a house in Washington state and their offer was accepted over a competing one. We are all thrilled with the house they found. It’s on acreage and has a fenced garden, greenhouse, and chicken coop. The price was excellent.

I taught the Free Range Slacks class yesterday to three students. I was very happy with how it went. Sometimes I suffer from impostor syndrome—who am I to be teaching garment classes when I’ve never been formally trained?—but everyone went home with a muslin that fit. I always encourage students to try on my class samples, and I try to have samples in several sizes. That helps me to identify fitting issues ahead of time and gives the students a ballpark idea of what size to make. One student needed no alterations, but the other two had to shorten the rise on their patterns. I showed them how to do that.

This is one of my students tracing her pattern:

The store is closed now on Mondays, but the Monday classes that were already on the calendar are proceeding as scheduled. After next month, the store will be closed on Mondays and we won’t schedule classes on those days. While I was teaching, the owner took advantage of the peace and quiet to rearrange the displays and get some other work done on the floor.

This is a very full week. I am scheduled to teach two more classes, on Friday and Saturday, and have to organize supplies and handouts for those. I also have to prepare music for a memorial service on Sunday afternoon. We lost two elderly members of our congregation over the past few weeks. Both ladies were in their 90s and had lived long, full lives, but we still mourn their passing.

I am home today and I have a very long to-do list. Tomorrow, I have several appointments in town. I still need to put the buttonholes in the Geranium Dress but that may be the extent of my sewing this week. I also need to find some food for the spider. It re-spun its web the other night so I stood there and watched it for a while. That was fascinating.