{"id":6542,"date":"2017-02-23T21:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2017-02-23T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:33:38","slug":"folding-folding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6542","title":{"rendered":"Folding, Folding"},"content":{"rendered":"

I live such an exciting life.\u00a0 I sometimes can’t stand myself it’s so exciting.\u00a0\u00a0 My heart rate gets up to almost 70 beats a minute most days, my life is so exciting.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is what has been going on that is so exciting in my world.<\/p>\n

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Of course, socks.\u00a0 I am having entirely too much fun knitting up little socks for little boys in leftover yarn from other sock projects.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These knit together so quickly.\u00a0 I am still astounded\u00a0 I can actually knit socks now. Exciting.<\/p>\n

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Train watching.\u00a0 They are working on the tracks in front of our house. See that big pile of gravel?\u00a0 They dumped several loads of gravel to put on the tracks.<\/p>\n

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David and I spent some time sitting on our front porch watching them dump these three carloads of gravel. Exciting.\u00a0\u00a0 In another year there is going to be up to twenty trains a day going by our house.\u00a0 They are trying to fix the rails and crossings to get ready for the heavy train traffic.\u00a0 Molly howls every time a train goes by.\u00a0 She will be howling every hour on the hour once the train traffic picks up.\u00a0 Fun times. Not so exciting.<\/p>\n

Did I say something about porch sitting?<\/p>\n

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We spent some time porch sitting with our grandchildren.<\/p>\n

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Some of us are porch layers.\u00a0 But that’s okay.<\/p>\n

I know there\u00a0is an honorary\u00a0Porch Sitting Society somewhere out there in the world, but David and I have formed our own private Porch Sitting Society with David as president and myself as vice president. Membership is open to any friend or family member\u00a0who wants to join us on our porch.\u00a0 People who like to sit and watch the world go by. Conversation not mandatory, but welcome. We had our first meeting last week. Some friends brought pizza, but it was too chilly to eat out on the porch so we ate inside, but we still called it the Porch Society meeting!\u00a0 We plan to have them all Spring, Summer and Fall.\u00a0 Exciting.<\/p>\n

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Baking. I love to bake.\u00a0 David enjoyed this pineapple upside down cake.\u00a0 I don’t like\u00a0it\u00a0 so he had it pretty much to himself. I had made a chocolate chip applesauce cake last weekend, but we had grandsons over and it didn’t last long and I made another one today for a funeral dinner.\u00a0 I still don’t have any cake to eat.\u00a0 Exciting.\u00a0 Not the funeral so much.<\/p>\n

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Watching sunsets. I have noticed several people have posted beautiful sunsets on Facebook recently.\u00a0 We have had some gorgeous ones.\u00a0\u00a0 If you never look out and see a sunset or sunrise, you are really missing something. Exciting.\u00a0 God’s wonderful creation for all to see. No charge.<\/p>\n

And last, but certainly not least, I have been in a cleaning mood lately. Early Spring fever I think since the weather has been Spring like the last week or so. My shop has been neglected and with the dogs spending so much time in it this winter, it just needed a good cleaning.\u00a0 I also want to paint it sometime this year so I started removing fabric from the shelves, taking it off the boards and washing and ironing it all.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been working on it for a couple of days.\u00a0 Ironing for hours.\u00a0 I don’t mind ironing, but not so much at a\u00a0time.\u00a0 Finally finished it all today.\u00a0 I have been watching Victoria on PBS the past few weeks and got to wondering about who had to iron all those yards and yards of fabric that were in those Victorian ladies’ dresses.\u00a0 The Queen had her own laundresses and ironers, I am sure, but the common folk had to do their own ironing.\u00a0 No dry cleaners back then.\u00a0 No wash and wear.\u00a0 Mostly cottons, silks and linens.\u00a0\u00a0 It would be like me ironing yards of fabric all the time.\u00a0 Folded and folded fabric until my arms ached.\u00a0 But, it’s done now and I am excited about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Talked to our contractor today about replacing the rest of our windows in our house. We have been doing that for years now, it seems, because there are so many windows in this old house. Only four more to go. We also are gutting the upstairs bathroom that hasn’t been remodeled since the 1950’s and putting in\u00a0new dry wall, tile,\u00a0 toilet, a new cabinet, sink and faucets. I’m not looking forward to the mess, but am excited at finally getting it done.\u00a0 The last room in our house to be remodeled.\u00a0 Thirty-nine years of working on this old house.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Exciting.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Hope your life is as exciting as mine.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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