Life in the Fast Lane

Thursday morning is usually a good sewing time but not today. We had two vehicles to take to the panel beaters this morning, one each to drive into town. Terry drove the old truck that needs to have some rust removed above the windscreen before it can get its Warrant of Fitness renewed. I drove the Citroen that had had a minor altercation with the garage door a couple of weeks ago. Apparently automatic garage doors are good business for panel beaters. We keep the door opening gadget in the ash tray of the car and, when we got into the car, the garage door was open. Terry threw his pda into the ashtray and backed the car out of the garage. The pda hit the garage door button and, because the car was going we didn’t hear the door coming down. We lost the radio aerial off the roof of the car and it is lightly scratched and dented.

Next on the agenda was to sit and play a hand of crib at the Rutland. We had arranged to wait there to meet some customers from the USA who were driving up from Wellington to visit our nursery before travelling on to Ohakune and National Park. We had lunch at Indigo before leading them along the scenic route to our place. They had The Tour and a cold drink and carried on a couple of hours later. Thus passed the working hours of my Thursday. What was my biggest achievement today? Probably hopping on the scales for my weekly weigh-in and finding that I had lost 1.2 kg since last week...

I did get a little bit of sewing done before I left this morning. Last week I laid out a new quilt on the wall. I collected all my orphan blocks and arranged them in a medallion style. I'll put it together with plainish borders between each round that will pull all the colours together. That's the plan! This morning I added a border to one 7" block to make an 8" block. That's the block that's missing on the bottom 8" block border.