Meanwhile, In My Little Corner Of The World..........

 

Sitting in bed tonight answering comments on my phone in between knitting  in bed, which has become the new reading in bed.

Thanks for everyone's comments, sorry that I did not get a chance to respond to all. Feel free to continue to comment. In will continue to allow most all comments but the commenters who missed my editing this time will not be around again. I'm adding multiple blogs to the side this week, as well as removing just one or two. Most are not retiree related and some may even have something to do with food or creation or frugality. As to people who complain that I delete comments. Yes. That's why I have moderation. It's my blog.

I briefly had another wake up call this morning when I saw that Nancy (who if FAR from my favorite person gives the Dems a bad name on more days than not) had contacted the generals about the codes.  The had me having a Martin Sheen "Dead Zone" moment there.

In other news here at Casa Barb, my daughter has tested positive for Covid, exactly one day after taking the first vaccine. She says she is just tired, has bad cold symptoms and no sense of taste or smell. Her husband went and got tested and he is negative. He's going to discuss what's appropriate with his job, which also tests daily. At home he has moved to the guest room, they are distancing and both wearing mask (wonder how that's going with the dogs). She did text me that "Having no taste and smell is very unsettling". I can only imagine. Thankfully since she's an essential person who got ill at work, this is two weeks paid leave. I am trying to make sure from afar that she is caring for herself. 

This is a new pattern (photo from Color Connections quilts) and I am going to do this in bright SW colors and get it up on my wall. My new quilt to do for February (see Chreative to do list)

I of course am back to my lazy, "hide out at home except for walking or doing trunk pickup from the store"ways. I think about taking a long drive or exploring walking trails but I'll feel more comfortable doing that in the spring when at least some of the populace has been shot in the arm. Here in Texas we are at 1B which means (for this state at least) 65 and up or chronic condions. The vaccines are arriving slowly and I am on the list at a local health clinic (they've been receiving about a hundred a week) and hope to make the cut by February sometime. For the first one.

Definitely not my first choice in fabrics, but I was ordering online from Joanne's and I need to get rid of the Christmas decor.

Today I did do a brief "pop out" and picked up a few things from Target (using them more than Walmart or the grocery right now as they have two hour drive up for anything in the store) and bought batting (the insides of a quilt) to finish a quilt and fabric to make throw pillow covers for the large and small pillows. It's not exactly what I thought it was when I saw it online, but it'll work until what I really want is in stock. Which is similar in colors with more red and muuch more sothwestern. I'm on a no spend reset month but I had a Joanne's gift card. I also have another gift card-one of those so called entertainment one that's good at about ten places including Macy's and Bed and Bath. I'm either going to order a small eight inch round lectric skillet to use on my stove or get sensible stuff like fridge shelf liners. Once in awhile even I must be sensible, I suppose. 

I've rejected some small appliances, and embraced others (getting a cover for my oven so I can put things like this on it). A Toaster oven upgrade thad holds and eleven by seven pan is in the works post no spend period.

We're supposed to have rain and non sticking snow showers on Sunday (one of Texas' brief forays into winter days). It will be forty degrees but it will be down to as low as 29 overnight, so after taking my sunny walk tomorrow I will  be nesting. Knitting on my new pink short sleeved sweater (I think the blue one is too heavy for Texas so I have temporarily left it aside to think about), doing some sewing, reading my new Amazon Reads book, watching my Nordic show on Mhz.  Oh, and yes, there might be some packing up of the Christmas things. I am going to make a seasonal year round tree but it's going to be one of the ones shown below, not a green one. 

Just not sure I can look at a pine tree year around, even a small one. So this will be the substitute

There might be some actual cooking of some real oven mustard brown sugar pork chops (now that I have an actual chef knife and slicer to attack the previously mentioned hunk of pork in my freezer) and the baking and freezing of portion sized muffins and cake. There might be.

Oh, and that Target pickup?  I ordered a little thing of Valentine Hershey's Kisses.  And got a family sized bag. I may need to fill up sandwish bags and leave the kisses on a hall table somewhere before I eat them all.