Exiting Paperwork Purgatory

I am scraping for interesting blog content this week. The good news is that I did get a big chunk of paperwork done over the past two days. I should be able to finish the rest of it today. It would be lovely if the government could have a functional Social Security website so that it didn’t require dozens of attempts over several days to submit paperwork required by law.

I had a hair appointment first thing yesterday morning, then stopped at the store on my way home. (Hi, Kimberly!) They had received a shipment of 3D-printed accessories for the accessory towers, so I got a few for my serger tower. The towers are made by a guy in Utah. I have the large tower for my 880 and it holds all of my presser feet.

I like the large tower so much that I bought a smaller one for my serger.

I still have to get a few more holders for some of my serger accessories but at least the feet are corralled.

Monday will be a sewing day come hell or high water. That’s the soonest I can get back into my sewing room. I am hosting a church gathering here on Saturday morning—I’ve done this every year for the past four or five years—and I need to get ready for that event. The gathering is for our annual conference-wide Zoom meeting. We discovered that it’s easiest to meet in my living room where I can hook up the TV to my laptop. I make a big pot of soup and everyone else brings sides.

Before sewing, though, I have to organize the upstairs again. When the girls were little, I bought each of them a blanket chest and used it over the years to store school papers and other mementos. We took DD#1’s over to her on our trip, which freed up some space in her bedroom. I have my AccuQuilt cutter set up in that room, but I need to rearrange a few things.

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It has been very cold here over the past few days and the flies have all but disappeared. I have been worried about what the spider is going to eat, so I went to Petco while I was in town and got a couple of small crickets for $0.18 apiece. We fed one to the spider yesterday and the extra went into the freezer. The spider has been subsisting on an average of a fly per week, so a cricket should keep it satiated for a while. The husband makes jokes about the spider becoming obese and falling out of its web.

Yes, hosting a barn spider in my kitchen is weird, but my mother would probably love to regale my blog readers with stories of all the animals I brought home when I was growing up. The spider isn’t hurting anyone and it really is a beautiful creature. Every so often, I catch it re-spinning its web, which is fascinating to watch.