Friday, February 12, 2021

Today is the Lunar New Year. I always remember Gung Hey Fat Choy from Elizabeth when she is in elementary school and they were celebrating. At one point we even made fortune cookies. Sunday is Valentine’s Day and then Monday is Family Day so the Covid-19 briefing today was full of warnings about what not do. In the past there have been increases with every holiday and to have three special days so close together has most people a bit worried.

It was a noisy day in the neighbourhood. I heard a chain saw and first thought it was coming from the house behind us. But I got up to change positions at one point and realized it was coming from the Duncan side of the house. When I looked out the window there was some major trimming being done on the big evergreen tree on the grounds of City Hall. They continued to cut down limbs and chop the branches while we had lunch and we thought they were probably going to take the whole tree down. Shortly after we had our lunch all was quiet and I thought perhaps they were on a lunch break but they have moved all their equipment away and left some sizeable logs on the ground. If they take the tree down I will certainly miss it but right now it just looks a bit sad.

My quilting didn’t go as planned today but I’m happy to say an alternate plan worked and I’m ready to start on the border tomorrow – I’m too tired to go any further today. I managed only a few stitches with my quilting rulers before I broke a needle (going over a seam); I switched to some free-motion and made even fewer stitches before breaking another needle. So I switched to some straight lines and things went well from that point on.

I’m hoping I have enough energy to pick up my knitting tonight. The last couple of nights I have been too tired to even knit – I think it was all the tension I felt about the quilting.