Week 39 - Donations and Travel

It was another week of freaky hot weather that had me hanging in the basement because I was not going to turn on the AC at the end of September. It started out in the 90's, had a single day in the 70's and the rest were 80's. Ick! There was some productivity, a dyeing score in Omaha and some stuff was gone but the best thing was Anne and I booked our next trip.

I got a postcard from the company we did out last trip with announcing a big sale on their early spring cruises - $1000 off. Combined with the $888 credit from the cruise that became a bus trip, I checked out the options and called Anne. We chose a trip from Antwerp up to Amsterdam in late March/early April. We got on the phone and booked it, including airfare from Lincoln. It was a total score pricewise and it's early enough that I won't be sweating and it won't interfere with gardening season. I did say that if it's not going to be a cruise for some reason, I won't go. I doubt that'll be an issue so early in the year but just in case, I'm on the record.

On the gone is good front, I packed up a couple of piles of stuff for Becky when I was holed up in the basement staying cool to go with the stuff that I'd already collected upstairs. I also went through all the various shipping envelopes that I'd saved for shipping (way more than I would use) and recycled tons of those. I also got rid of many plastic bags while I was at it and I did a long overdue return/rebate on a steamer that had been recalled. I also called and made an appointment to set up an account and drop clothes at the consignment shop in Seward and emailed Changing Spaces SRS about consigning some Pyrex in one of their auctions. Hopefully these last 2 will lead to more things leaving my house.

I got out of Wahoo twice - once to Omaha and once to Lincoln. The Omaha run was to pick up a score Andrea found for me on Facebook Marketplace. A woman was selling all her dyeing supplies, including bunches of natural yarn, for $75. Since I was in Omaha, I hit some thrifts, of course, and the Rotella bread factory store. I found a cat cave at Goodwill and found a fun 3 tier plant stand at a little antique store while I was killing time before picking up the dye stuff. I went to Lincoln on Saturday to drop the donations for Becky at the garage sale that was in progress (the pic is just some of what I donated). I then met Anne at the Stuff Creative Reuse store (bought a couple of balls of yarn) and then we got ice cream at Zesto, which would probably be out last for the year since they'd be closing for winter soon. I got some groceries and headed home.

I ended the week out in the yard Sunday morning cutting sunflowers, starting by the sidewalk then did the bed under my bedroom window and around to the east side, which is the messiest in my yard. I took a huge load to the burn pile then showered and did 3 loads of laundry and hung most of it outside. At least that made use of the still ridiculously hot weather.

So it was a good week. I did some cooking and a few chores, got rid of some stuff and booked my next trip. Knitting was cancelled due to weather but I had a Ripples zoom on Tuesday and book club on Thursday plus got out of town twice - all this while the weather was too hot for my liking. I even got some gift socks finished and cast on another gift pair. Other than the weather, I'll take more weeks like this.