No pictures today

I am home alone. Home alone in a new house. A new house with NO window coverings. I feel like a fish in a fishbowl. So I am on the laptop in my bedroom. The only window in here is onto the deck. The deck can only be accessed through the house. Unless Spiderman or Batman are nearby. So I am using LogMeIn and am able to have MY desktop on this laptop. Pretty sweet. Well except for the flat keyboard and the mouse issues. I was TRYING to upload some fabric pictures but that just was not working. No idea why. The windows would resize. I would lose what I was working on. I gave up.

So, I sat in here while Rosie vacuumed the floors. Rosie is the Roomba's name now. You know, Rosie the maid from the Jetsons? That is where I got the name. It was kind of great to be sitting with my feet up, typing away, reading blogs, and yet the vacuuming was getting done. Sweet. Now if they had one that did the dishes. Rosie got in BIG trouble last night though. She almost lost her job, let alone one of her appendages. So she is scheduled to vacuum in the late evening when we are all most likely downstairs - sewing, scrapping,dinking online or watching something on the big screen. No one heard her vacuuming. We were oblivious to the trouble she was in. Since this house is so much smaller, finding a place to line dry some laundry was tough. I set up a collapsible dryer rack in the guest bathroom and that seems to work just fine. Well almost. Note to self: put dryer rack away OR close the bathroom door before Rosie vacuums. Hubby and son went to bed about 10. I stayed up until about midnight. When I came upstairs the dryer rack was in the hallway. Huh, not where that goes. So I turned on the bathroom light and see Rosie up against the tub, battery dead. This is not good. So I pick her up and UGH....she found a sticky pest trap that the previous owners left under the sink. It still had lots of stick to it and now it was all over one of her wheels and all over her little brushes that she feels with and sweeps stuff with. I mean this is BIG TIME sticky! Poor little Rosie had tried to get out of that bathroom but must have just been going in circles or just stuck in one place until her battery gave out. I rescued her, turned her upside down and tried to clean her. I finally gave up and wrote my hubby a note and went to bed.

In the morning when I got up I saw that Rosie's brushes had now been removed and there was a note from hubby. He said clean the sticky stuff off with Skin So Soft (works great on tree sap too). Great. Do YOU know which box the Skin So Soft is in?? Me neither. So I left her there and went to town to do my grocery shopping. Well I visited the one small quilt store (she opens at 8!) and the craft store. I just needed a fabric fix. I didn't buy any though. ;) I know, hard to believe.
Hubby finally found the box that the SSS was in and he cleaned Rosie up, reattached her brush arm and put her back on the charger. She was working like a champ tonight and yes, we closed that bathroom door.

I did sew yesterday and today. Last year, when my brother in law and his brother in law came here to hunt they really liked the fleece pants that I made for my hubby and son. They wanted some! They wanted me to go into production - uh no. My brother in law drove back to the big city only to return the next week to hunt some more BUT since it was then the day after Thanksgiving and JoAnns always has a big sale, he was there at 6 when they opened. He bought enough camo fleece for two pair of pants. So you would THINK that I would have sewn them right up and taken them to him on one of our numerous trips. Oh no. Not me! Well the guys were SUPPOSED to come hunt next weekend - the 22nd/23rd. I figured I would have time to get my sewing room set up and get those pants ready for them. Change of plans! They needed to come THIS weekend! Now I took pictures of my room (the BEFORE)and I will post them next week but it is really so much worse than it looks (if that can even be possible). Trying to get to the boxes I needed - what a exercise in balance and flexibility. I could not even get to my new machine. I settled for using my old one and my serger. That was tough enough to pull off.
The pants got finished and hubby and my son took them to the old house to meet up with the hunters. I HOPE that they fit them!

I wonder if they make a Roomba that unpacks and organizes. I need one of those.

Prayers - for the hunters for the next few days. For their safety and for a successful harvest. Praise - for my hubby. He has really been working so hard on getting us moved and setting things up. He even tackled our son's truck and got that fixed.

This has GOT to give me more sewing time

So it has been 11 days or so since I blogged. That can't be good. I miss being on the computer. I really miss sewing! My craft room is a disaster. Oh I have sewing that I SHOULD be doing. The thing is I am STILL waiting for the previous owner to fix a hole in the ceiling in here. He did have some dude come by to patch it, but no one has come by to tape it and mud it and paint it. It is directly under where my sewing table should go. Of course it is. The first dude that cut some dry wall made a huge mess that he didn't' clean up. I am NOT setting my machine up under there and then letting dude #2 show up to make another mess. I can't set up my table until it is in place because it has these BIG and HEAVY drawers which are full of fabric and patterns. This situation does not make me happy.

We went away this past weekend, to see my daughter for her 19th birthday. We took a couple of her friends from here along. We stayed with friends, took them shopping, ate, partied, caught up. The adults went to a semi-formal event for Families Northwest where John Tesh was the entertainment. That was a lovely evening.

The day we took all the girls shopping hubby and I went to Costco and got this;

I have it on the charger right now. I can't wait to let it do its thing! I figure it is one less thing I will have to do. I am going to schedule it to clean every single day. Otherwise the dark wood floors that show everything are going to be the end of me. Anything to create more sewing time is a good thing...RIGHT??? :D

My son and the guys we visited all made a music video this past weekend. It was so much fun to watch. Any chance my son gets to make a movie he jumps on it. This is what he wants to do after all. Good thing his friends are all hams and enjoy being in the movies.

It was so hard to say good-bye to my daughter again. She didn't want to go back to school. She wanted to hang out with us, not have studying to do. I suggested she drop out, move back home and get a job in this podunk town. She figured she'd better go back to school after all. Thanksgiving break is coming up soon and then after that she has a couple weeks and then she is home for her winter break and Christmas!!!!

I had minimal time to spend in TWO Super JoAnns. They were having a huge sale but having just about 20 minutes in the one store and seeing the very long lines, and not much longer in the second store and having three bored young ladies trailing me....wahhhhh!!! I saw so many things I would have liked to get. Did any of you get to their sale??

I am still not totally out of the other house, or unpacked of the boxes and boxes that are now in this house. I'd best get a move on. I just wanted you to know that yes, I am still alive. I did get two aprons off in the mail last week! Those were the final items to be sewn in the old house and then my room could be packed up.

Praise for safe travel to and from the big city and for my awesome hubby who makes the drive basically alone while the rest of us sleep. Prayers for my daughter as she hangs in there for a few more weeks until the end of the first quarter. Prayers that my son would continue to be diligent with his schoolwork too.