The other day my husband commented on how weird it is that just as I started this blog, we ended up staying home for months. He’s not wrong here. I decided to start the blog before we got home in October 2024. My first couple of months were fairly easy to produce some content.
Not so in April. I really had to dig deep to find anything to publish. In the end it may be excruciatingly boring. So here goes.
To be honest, April was a pretty good month. A lot of positive things happened – well a lot of frustrating things happened with positive results.
As I stated last month, I ran out of rick-rack for my daughter’s apron. I went back to Michael’s where I bought it and they were closing out all their trims. While I was looking for the rick-rack I met a woman – Robin (R) – who was just as frustrated with Joann’s dying and lack of any suitable replacement in Lane County. We started talking and ended exchanging phone numbers. Jumping to the end of this story, R and I have been texting ever since. The night she performed at Gratitude Brewery’s Open Mic Night, we discovered we are neighbors on opposite ends of the neighborhood.
Back to the apron. I received rick-rack I had ordered online from the big A (you know what I’m talking about) and surprise, surprise the color was not what was pictured on the computer. I called around and no one in Eugene and Springfield had rick-rack – before you say it, Hobby Lobby has an off brand and discontinued the color I needed.
This turned out for the best also. Michael’s in Beaverton OR had the color I wanted and held it until the next day. It’s a really boring 100 mile drive, especially in the rain, but this offered me the opportunity to stop in Mount Angel at the Abbey bookstore and have some alone time. Happy April.
I arrived at Beaverton only to discover Michael’s is right next door to Mill End, a fabric store a woman at church told me about. Really happy April. You know those moments in movies and TV when the main character finds what they’re searching for and there is music and birds sing and…you get the picture. That’s what happened – in my head – when I entered Mill End. I will return, since there is, essentially, no fabric in Lane County.
Apron finished and sent off to my daughter; it was time for another trip to Seattle. We were heading up to pick up David’s dad, Lloyd (L). The plan was to arrive at J’s house Sunday evening, spend Monday with J and her husband, K and pick up L Tuesday morning on the way back to Eugene. Amazingly enough, all went according to plan.
We had dinner Sunday night at Demitri’s on the Edmonds waterfront. The weather was cool but beautiful. The walk back to the car provided some pretty amazing views of northern Puget Sound.
L spent Easter with us and we had a very quiet, lovely Easter. We took L home on Tuesday after Easter and came back to Eugene the next day.
On our way back up to Lynnwood The Mountain Was Out. So was Seattle.
In the middle of all this mundane stuff my laptop died and the house computer stopped updating. So a new laptop for me and new computer parts for David to build us a new computer, before the dreaded tariffs go into effect.
David had the first of two cardiac procedures that Thursday. The sec ond was May 2nd. Once he has a follow up appointment we find out what our summer will be like.
Like I said; April was not very exciting. Hopefully, it won’t be long before there will be more interesting content.
Sorry about the boring format. I couldn’t get the format to work. Another reason I need to post more often. I’ll just have to try harder to dig up more content.