Keeping It Classy

I spent a break raking outside yesterday.  We're those people who's yard is all prime for Halloween and Thanksgiving with leaves everywhere and Sedum looking beautifully brown.  Then we're too busy to do anything about it and wait until Spring to do the raking.  

The yards all around look pristine, but ours looks like hell.

So I took a load of yard waste out to the landfill yesterday.  Probably the first load they've seen this spring.  I've got many more to go, but we're taking baby steps.  There is lots to do.

But look what I found in the Clematis plant!  I KNEW there was still a missing egg!

The dye had faded.

I don't dare even ASK if I should eat it.  What with the weather being 5 degrees one day and 60 the next, then back to 32, then up to 57.  Yikes.  It's been crazy, but not uncommon.

I live in Iowa.  If you don't like the weather, wait a day.

The guy for the leaky dishwasher is coming today.  WOOHOO!!!  However I AM getting the swing of washing everything by hand now.  Got it down to a science.

1) fill one sink with soapy water and the other with clear.

2) empty the dishwasher.

3) wash dishes in the right sink and drop them into the clear on the left.

4) load them up into the dishwasher to dry.

5) wash off counters.

done.

JUST like when I was a kid.  Except then, we had about 5 handy maids and someone was drying with a towel and putting away while you did step 3.

We've gotten spoiled.

AND we have a leaky toilet...  It's not around the base, but under the tank.  YUCK.  And here I thought the mat kept getting wet from carelessness of some people...  I apologize.

Our plumber will be by tomorrow and will even install the bidet that I had given Robb for Christmas one year.  It's been sitting there for over a year now and we've been afraid to install it ourselves.

We don't have the best of luck when it comes to using pliers on pipes and such...

The parts for the broken dryer came yesterday and I popped them in.  NOT sure if it's working yet.  It could be that the batch I put in was too sodden to be certain.  I'm doing laundry today so we'll see.

Also, yesterday over my lunch and part of the evening.  I dug out the yards of black satin that I'd gotten from the free table and made 8 table runners for Meri's graduation party.  SO quick and easy to make with a serger!!!!  bingity-bangity-boom.  They're done and I get to mark off one thing on my massive "Do before graduation party list".  

PLUS, I was getting sick of always thinking about prom sewing and needed a break.  Back to that today.  

But won't cloth tablecloths and satin table runners make the grad party classy?  sweet...