Sept/Oct 2023 Island Trip- Day 6

No alarm this morning. First time since I’ve been here that I wasn’t compelled to get up at a certain time. Of course, I woke up at 7:30 😂, but stayed in bed until the heaters warmed Stella up above 59º.

When every small town in our state had a quilt shop, it was fun to attend the annual Quilt Shop Hop. A fabric line was created for each year’s Hop, and the idea was to visit as many shops as you could in a weekend. You had a ‘passport’ that was stamped at each shop that could be worth some significant prizes if you mailed it in to the quilting mothership. Each shop would give you instructions and fabric to make a quilt block. I have a few years of unfinished shop hop blocks in Stella. Today I made two blocks (would post the pic if the website would let me!), and have chosen the next ones to work on. Stella now looks like a mini quilting studio, but she is adaptable that way.

After sewing, and not quite enough lunch, I finished up mowing, both rider and push, for the year. There’s line trimming to do too, but maybe in a coupla a days.

Stella’s slope finally has weed barrier and chips going down!! It’s a slow process as pulling grass before laying the weed barrier is bet practice. I’m very excited to have time to spend on this!

I had dinner with my neighbor to the east. I finally took her up on her long standing offer to do a load of laundry, which was incredibly soothing somehow. Fresh clothing start… Don’t have to take my clothes down to the port to use their washer/drier… And it propels me to get my little washer/dryer combo unit set up with cold water (that’s all I’ve got in the lower barn at the moment) even if it’s via garden hose from the well’s pressure tank. Anyway, she made an amazing corn chowder with prawns and sent me home with some. I will not skimp on lunch tomorrow!