I Might Have a Problem

I went to the grocery this afternoon for ingredients to make onion bread for Thanksgiving and I might have gone into the makeup aisle and I might have bought two more lipsticks. For someone who hasn't bought makeup in 25 years I don't seem to be able to stop. I think this might be the end of my buying spree. I haven't been thrilled with my lipstick choices. They've all been not red enough. I don't want a real deep red but a reddish rather than coral shade. I think these may be it. They'd better be, that stuff isn't cheap.

 

When I opened the drapes over the patio door this morning something was staring at me. The squirrel was in the square green feeder, propping up the lid, and staring right at the patio door. It didn't scamper off immediately and I didn't chase it. It was still really frosty out there so I wasn't going to go out to chase it away.

 

I was late to sit down to write this morning and only had a little over an hour before I had to stop for lunch and then haul in the trash and recycle bins before time to leave for the school run. I made it to 1417 words in that time and when I got home I tried to pick up and add more but not much happened so I quit. I'm up to 39,869 words so far so if I'm short some days I'm not worried. There are eleven days until the end of the month and I need to write only 10,131 words to meet the goal. Woo!

 

The next sports things to draw were Croquet and Darts. I lost my way a little drawing the circles for the dart board but as my friend, BF, says it's not a graded course. I think they look okay.

 

After supper I sat down to watch Jeopardy! (didn't get the Final, it was Chewbaca) then I knitted a few rounds on the Landscapes Leftovers Hat. I went downstairs to see if I could find any more Landscapes leftovers to add to the hat since I'm nervous about having enough yarn, but couldn't find any more. I weighed the last hat I made with that yarn and it weighs less than the yarn I'm working with so I should have enough. I know I'll be playing yarn chicken at the top of the hat. Fingers crossed.

When I sat down to write a check and address an envelope to the lawn mowing guys, I heard a loud leaf blower outside. It was them and it was getting dark, really dark. I went out to clip the envelope to the mailbox and he was right there and I asked if he'd get done before dark and he said, "Maybe." Well, I was on the inside where it was light and he was on the outside and I sure hope he could see out there better than I could see him. If I'd tried to take a picture, the frame would have been black with an orange blur when the mower went by. I was glad for the streetlight on the corner of my yard and for the motion detector lights on the front and back. On the bill, I discovered that I'm paying extra for leaf collection but I don't care. I am so happy that I don't have to deal with raking. My hamstring is still not 100% and I don't want to risk the progress I've made by stepping in a hole in the yard again.

--Barbara