The housework orgy was successful. My husband and #1 son helped me when they got home. The house doesn’t really look different, since so much of what I did was of the deep-cleaning type of thing — scrubbing the pantry floor, washing the inside door of the broom cupboard — but there is still a sense of satisfaction.
In the evening, I got some inches done on this nice mysterious object.
I also got my review (as distinct from my fact-checking) for the history encyclopedia mailed off.
Pokey and Distant Eyes and Scarf Boy are arriving today, so there will be grocery shopping and baking this morning, and I hope there will also be some yard work. With any luck, #2 son will get home early enough to assist me with the selection of some pumpkins. I foresee carving at some point this weekend.
The craft fairs are on in our area this weekend — school in the county to the north of us closed Thursday and Friday because of them. Not so much because the teachers all wanted to go to the craft fairs as that the buses cannot get through with the extra traffic.
Pokey is thinking of going to
the biggest fair — 170,000 people last year, making it one of the biggest craft fairs in the world — with her guests. This fair is at the War Eagle mill — a water-powered mill where they grind grains now as they did a hundred years ago. I have never gone to their fair, because they crowds and traffic are not my idea of fun, but we do go to the mill pretty regularly for our cereals and flours. It is a beautiful drive, and they make very good pies there, too.
The weather is cooperating with us. It should be a perfectly gorgeous weekend. I hope your is wonderful.
Sounds like a good way to spend a weekend.
Things like mills, fresh grain, and craft fairs for 170,000 people are quite different to here. Over here such things might be occasionally found in the very small towns (pop of a few thousand at most) but the number of people going would be far fewer.
LOL, house orgy, that’s a hoot. There is a B-52’s song called house work and part of what they sing is: Shake, Clean, Work it like a washing machine. I put that on to get me moving and groovin when I don’t really feel like cleaning. I do have that Denim People book and it has some of the best sweaters in it that I’ve seen. Right now its more like my dream book where I sit and browse through it. There are a couple I’d like to make but not yet. I might have to commit myself if I did. Especially with the two alien faces from the alien illusion scarf starring at me all the time. In fact they are staring at me right now. I must complete scarf now. LOL