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Any excuse to get out of the house seems to include geocaching.
Mike
is now scheduling “Dog Daze,” his wintertime volunteer activity wherein he
takes one of the dogs to visit nursing / retirement homes. These days it’s Bess
who serves as the visiting dog. While it’s not out of the realm of possibility
that Nellie might also serve (she has in the past), she’s really quite happily
retired. She would really rather sleep on her pillow while Bess is removed from
the house. And Bess? – Bess just LOVES being the visiting dog. Her whole body wriggles in
delight and her enthusiasm is infectious.
Mike
and Bess had an appointment to “meet and greet” this morning, and on the way
they dropped me at Goodwill. You see, I need a white, long-sleeved blouse for
an event next week. Such a blouse used to be a staple in every well-dressed
woman’s closet, but no more! (And that’s probably because we are no longer well-dressed.) I couldn’t find one in local shops, and ordering at this late
date is problematic. At any rate, I did find a lovely ivory “Liz Claiborne” at
Goodwill for $7.00. It will have to do.
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Mike
picked me up at Goodwill, but that was not the end of our outing. We found a
geocache on O’Connor Road near the airport. As it happens, the sun is shining
today – a winter rarity here -- and the view over Clarkston was beautiful. I
didn’t have the camera with me, so I took these pictures with my phone. Then on the way home I found a micro geocache in Swallow's Nest Park that has been eluding him.
Closet
cleaning continues. The trouble with cleaning is that it brings me face-to-face
with my dreams and unfinished projects. I guess bringing them into focus is a good thing. I finished a doll afghan I started several years ago (see photo right). And once again I’m trying to gently whiten
vintage pillowcases in varying stages of “worn out” so that I might re-purpose
the embroidery – and that’s one of my dreams. After soaking and washing them in
Borax and Woolite, the pillowcases are now drying in whatever sunshine we have left today. (Grandma's way of letting the sun bleach the whites is still recommended today.)
I have many more pillowcases to wash, but unfortunately there's rain in our forecast. Mike is taking advantage of this sunny day to clean the vehicles and then ride his bike. KW
2 comments:
It's sunny here today and it's wonderful!! Hope it is there, too, and you can set out some more vintage linens for whitening. It's amazing how the sunlight works wonders on them and on us!
We did have another sunny day today, and I draped another batch of hand-embroidered pillowcases over my wooden rack. I learned the last time that trying to laundry them all at once is a mistake.
Yes, sunlight is so good for us, but often we don't get a lot this time of year.
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