A Mixed Bag
Feb. 16th, 2008 03:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichToday was warm enough that I dared to open the doors and windows briefly in order to get some of the weird "winter mismia" out of the house. It needs a good, strong cleaning. The open door lulled the birds that like to walk around on our front porch into coming a tad too close to the doorway, thereby causing my completely idiotic cat to startle a bird, which flew into the house, which made to cat jump like a basketball player before sending it carreening off the wall to hide under Arni's bed... the bird simply flew back out the door and shouted some choice comments from the safety of the willow tree. I don't think the cat heard any of it from her hidey-hole under Arni's bed though. Silly cat.
Arn brough home a set of printed directions for our Tai Chi forms that a classmate made up - I'd missed a class and have that "what, exactly, do we do here?" confusion about the transition from "Movements of the Tree" to "Branches follow the wind" (right and left). Arni is my hero. Now I can practise before the next class. I like our Tai Chi form but have not much appreciation for our instructor. I'm trying to develope the proper respect for him.
Lunch and visit with Shilo was nice. :)
My sewing machine, the good old (OLD) Janome is on its last legs. Apparently the gears are getting worn down and not making contact as they should. The local repair guy says, "That's just he way it is". The Grumpy Old Man At Ward's Corner (tm) could probably repair it by replacing the gears with ones he'd harvest from other old machines but the cost will probably be the same, or near, to buying a new one. On one hand, I really love that old machine. On the other, it'd be nice to have one with an owner's manual that actually told me what all the knobs do - this one is so old that the Janome folks laughed at me (metaphorically speaking) when I contacted them for a copy. It's about, oh, over 60 years old. Maybe a little older.
But sewing machines are expensive, darn it. If I were dreaming on one, I'd want one that does that fancy embroidery stuff so I could make really cool fighting duds for all my fighter-friends ('cause hand-embroidery for that is right out) but there's no bloody way in - ah, heck, that I could afford such a thing. And that being the case, a simple "straight & good wide zig-zag" is going to be all I'll be looking for. Anything in between is wasted on me.
*sigh*
Sometimes, I'd like to win a lottery. If the money still went to the educational system in our state, I'd even buy a ticket or two to try to do so.
Arn brough home a set of printed directions for our Tai Chi forms that a classmate made up - I'd missed a class and have that "what, exactly, do we do here?" confusion about the transition from "Movements of the Tree" to "Branches follow the wind" (right and left). Arni is my hero. Now I can practise before the next class. I like our Tai Chi form but have not much appreciation for our instructor. I'm trying to develope the proper respect for him.
Lunch and visit with Shilo was nice. :)
My sewing machine, the good old (OLD) Janome is on its last legs. Apparently the gears are getting worn down and not making contact as they should. The local repair guy says, "That's just he way it is". The Grumpy Old Man At Ward's Corner (tm) could probably repair it by replacing the gears with ones he'd harvest from other old machines but the cost will probably be the same, or near, to buying a new one. On one hand, I really love that old machine. On the other, it'd be nice to have one with an owner's manual that actually told me what all the knobs do - this one is so old that the Janome folks laughed at me (metaphorically speaking) when I contacted them for a copy. It's about, oh, over 60 years old. Maybe a little older.
But sewing machines are expensive, darn it. If I were dreaming on one, I'd want one that does that fancy embroidery stuff so I could make really cool fighting duds for all my fighter-friends ('cause hand-embroidery for that is right out) but there's no bloody way in - ah, heck, that I could afford such a thing. And that being the case, a simple "straight & good wide zig-zag" is going to be all I'll be looking for. Anything in between is wasted on me.
*sigh*
Sometimes, I'd like to win a lottery. If the money still went to the educational system in our state, I'd even buy a ticket or two to try to do so.
