Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Home Life
Tea kettle is fixed (yea! so glad we don't have to buy a new one - I *liked* this one), dryer is fixed and parts are bought, once again, for the tractor/mower! Didn't I just say this the other day - that it inevitably stops working when he's in the middle of either mowing or plowing?! Well, it happened again. That thing is really on its last legs and, when we move, it's going to the great tractor heaven in the sky.

Hubby had another RFI treatment yesterday at the Pain Center, which will hopefully work this time. It was done in a different part of his back than the first RFI, so we're hoping. So, he was home yesterday, which makes today feel like Monday all over again! And, as is typical for Monday, even a faux Monday, I'm plowing through cleaning and laundry before settling in to REAL work.

In the Design Sphere
I finished the last Jester hat and mittens samples, which have been soaked and are on the wash line drying, I hope, in this moist 65 degree weather we're having today. It rained absolutely all day and night yesterday, and I WAS going to continue with the leaf vacuuming yesterday. Well not until all these leaves dry up.

Another shop inquired for wholesale terms this morning - always nice when a shop is interested in one's work!

I'm prepping all the new Pillbox Hat samples for photos, and hope to get the pattern rewritten today, as well as the Jester hat pattern. I have more crochet roses to make first.

I've been wearing the new Donegal Tweed cable and rib pullover the last few days and can attest to its coziness! Its pattern still needs working on, as well, though - not enough hours in the day!

Reading
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" It finally came in to our local library. It's been a busy book - many copies have been circulating, but I was still 12th on the waiting list.

To be special ordered today from our inter-library system:
Natural Home Heating, Greg Pahl
From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank, Joshua Tickell

Onward.