Some regrets

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Said quilt top prior to basting; hopefully it will be better featured once it's done.

But only a few; I never did get around to snapping pics of the latest quilt top on the laundry line. Now it's basted and well.... Hopefully tomorrow I'll get it under the machine for some quilting, then sit with it on the sofa for some hand-stitching. That's the plan, but certainly subject to change.

I am taking seriously this semi-retirement gig, in the letting things languish department, or not getting quilt tops photographed as I would previously have done. What's more, I am not at all bothered about it; regret might be just a little strong to describe my feelings. Other activities have emerged, like making playlists for my music player on my phone, reading through Alvin's Farm books and making small edits, then uploading those revised versions onto Smashwords. I cooked a pork roast for lunch today, after yesterday griping at my husband how I don't like to cook. I've been cooking since I was fourteen, and now, fifty-eight, I'm just not into it. Thankfully my better half loves cooking, but I need to take my turn every once in a while.

LOL.

I've also been good about reading a couple of chapters of The Hawk lately, yay! I've reached a turning point in the saga where everyone's lives go haywire, not that I plotted out all that hand-wringing from the start, but sometimes storylines go off the rails and not always for the worst. 

Sometimes quilts do that too, like the comforter I'm making for my husband. It's been basted for, um, several weeks, lying in a heap on the far corner of my sewing table aching for its turn under the presser foot. Before autumn, I promise, sweet quilt sandwich. I swear!

Before autumn I hope to be writing Book 5 of my current series, but if that doesn't happen, I'm not going to fret. Well, I might frown. But honestly, semi-retirement means pulling up the brakes a little. I'm still not completely comfortable with a slower pace, but I am thoroughly enjoying practicing, hah! Well, mostly thoroughly happy. A few niggles remain, mostly in my own mind when thinking of all I want to accomplish. Future Me has been VERY SILENT in this process, while Past Me is too absorbed in her own thing. Which leaves little old Present Me to muddle about with learning how to relax. To read for pleasure (mostly). To know that quilts and books will find The End at the appropriate hour.

And that maybe, if we do get a bit of rain this weekend, I'll finally get around to weeding the irises. Uh-huh, sure I will. Insert winking emoji HERE!

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