Thursday, September 28, 2017

I headed out the door to my movie last night as planned. When I opened the gate to go out to my car I noticed my hazard lights were flashing. Right away I thought of my battery and sure enough the car didn’t have enough power left to turn over. So I wasn’t going anywhere last night and not for a few days.

I have jumper cables in the car but with Pat on Texada I had no one to call for a boost. Actually there were people I could call but I didn’t know who might know the ins and outs of jumper cables and I haven’t had to use them since I bought them.

Before we left the Lower Mainland the lights on the car started doing funny things – coming on and going off as if possessed. We had the electrical system checked but they were never able to figure out what was wrong. The easy solution was to turn off the automatic lights and go back to manual, and that seemed to work.

Over the last few battery issues (before I bought a new one) at least once when the car was started it was noted that the hazard lights were on. Now I’m wondering if they haven’t now been possessed by the same demon.

I thought I didn’t need to go out until Pat was home and we could get the car going but this morning I got a reminder about my QiGong class on Saturday morning. I checked the bus schedule and it isn’t a difficult trip to make by public transit. It is possible I might be able to get a ride home with someone in the class but if not I can walk back if the bus time doesn’t work out.

This morning I did a bit of sewing and prep work for my afternoon of hand stitching. I decided to go with the group project, although today I seemed to be the only one working on it. It will be a quick finish and it will be part of a Christmas gift. I learned how to make a bias binding so I’m glad I’m still learning new things.

Before Pat left for Texada he picked most of the apples off the tree. Sometimes we get good eating apples but not in this batch. I made a pot of applesauce this morning as I wasn’t even sure I’d have enough good pieces to freeze for apple crisp.

I may start quilting tonight – I would really like to have this piece done for the next meeting. But right now I need to find something for my dinner.