Week 38 - Satisfied with Progress

It was another blissfully nice week at home. I made some progress on projects and got out of town twice.

On the getting rid of stuff front, I cleared the heap of crap from my desk then went through the pile on the spare room bed and came up with 4 bags of yarn to donate to Becky for her Stuff for Strays sale. I also took the old grill (the one that had hornets nests that the Windstream guy nuked) to the metal recycling bin at the hardware store. I also took another load of sunflowers and weeds to the burn pile. Gone is good.

I went to my first ERA - Emeriti and Retirees Association - meeting on Tuesday. I had been providing them with data for years and the membership chair, who has zero tech skills, had asked me to help out with data but I'd put him off in the spring because.... cancer. Well, this was the first time I'd showed my face at a meeting and as a new member, I was introduced and given a welcome gift of chocolate. The program was an interesting presentation by the head of the emerging media arts school at UNL and I sat with Anne and a few of her workout friends, who I know a bit. As soon as the meeting was over, the membership chair made a beeline to me and I agreed to help. I'll chalk it up to giving back after working at UNL for almost 27 years.

The other out of town trip was on Saturday, which was my monthly spinning meeting. But before that, I went to Valley to check out the Quasar Bazaar, which is a flea market at the drive-in theatre. I grilled the person at the entrance booth and she said it was not super busy. I was there right around noon and with a 2:30 kick off for Huskers football, some of the few vendors who were there were already packing up. I did talk to a woman who vends at sales all the time and she gave me some tips. So it wasn't a total waste but it wasn't as inspiring as I'd hoped. From there I went to the Restore in Fremont before heading to spinning. I got the missing piece for my wheel from Helga and enjoyed the knitting machine demo and chatting with friends.

I had picked plenty of produce in my garden and made squash casserole and pork chops with one lot. After getting zero green beans this summer, my vines have all of a sudden started producing so I got my first green beans of the season. Then my friend Lorri stopped by on Sunday with a big bag of chard (I'd lamented my poor chard germination so she came to my rescue), a small butternut squash and some delicious cobbler.

Another good week in the books. A bit of this. A bit of that. There was plenty of knitting, of course. I finished 2 pairs of socks and redid the toe on another to make them longer so I could gift them to Janice. I found a few fun things while thrifting and otherwise had a nice mix of productivity and socializing. Works for me.