Grill!

I had my (marginal) wits about me this morning and thawed out a package of little chuck eye steaks to cook on the grill tonight.  That was the real reason I raked the leaves off the patio yesterday so I could get the grill out easily.

And I baked the sweet potato that I got at the drive-thru farmer's market a week ago, so along with some nuked broccoli I had a feast.  It was all I could do not to just shovel the food in.  It tasted so good--and there's the other half for tomorrow night.  Yum.




This morning I sorted through Mom's hoard of bias binding and half filled this basket with the size I need for mask ties, color coordination will go out the window the more masks I make.

Then I spent the rest of the day sewing up six pleated-style masks--two with elastic (not so successful), four with ties (more successful and easier to wear).  The elastic makes them too tight.  I even added two inches onto the elastic pieces on the second one and it's still too snug.  I'll stick with the ties.  Tomorrow I plan to cut out more of the formed masks and get those sewed up and sent out later this week.  I can sew a wire into those for a better fit since the seam allowance is a bit wider so it's easier to sew the wires onto it and not break needles or have to make a pocket for it.


07 April--Wimpy.

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday
for a hamburger today,"
said Wimpy to Popeye
in the old cartoons.
Did he ever get a burger?
Did Tuesday ever come?

Words make movies
play in my head.
Out of the wayback
they come, 
triggered to life
by chance. 
~~~~~

I'm enjoying Poetry Month and calling ACJ every day around 1pm to share the daily prompt.  We talk for a few minutes about this and that, birds and grandkids and grown kids, before we hang up to go tackle the prompt.  We both remembered Wimpy from Popeye and I joked that quote would be the beginning of both of our poems.  I'll let you know if that turns out to be true.

Good night.
--Barbara