I'll Take One Yard of This

 How many of you have gone to the fabric store and found fabric you like but you have no idea what you make out of it so you get just one yard.  Well I have a ton of those just one yard pieces.  What to do with them.  I don't quilt so....

 I am taking this class on Saturday.  I had bought the pattern in case I could not attend the class. It is super easy to make, 2 pieces to the pattern.  The hardest part is picking out fabric.  I am making mine reversible which uses up 2 of those 1 yard pieces.  

Pattern is on Etsy: Sully's Upcycled Box Top Sewing Pattern.  Go get a copy it comes in a ton of sizes and have fun.  I have some scraps of fabric kind of like abstract art that I want to sew together and make a top out of it.  But that will be later.

I did a test run cos I wanted to see what size I needed to make. I made the small and there is plenty of room but then it is to be oversized.  I decided I wanted mine longer and the sleeves a bit longer too so I added to the pattern and made another one. I like this one much better and the sleeves could still be a bit longer.

Sorry I do not know how to turn the pictures upright.

 

How Long Can I go Without Water

 This morning I get up and see a lot of water and mud in the street, I knew it wasn't the neighbor across the street watering again and thought maybe the fire hydrant, it is in my yard.  Nope it was up the street from there.  I went outside and the neighbors on the side of my house across the street were all standing around.

There was a large buckle right by the fire hydrant and a pool of water right as you head into my cul de sac.  Water main break started at 2, here it is 7 and no sign of the city.  It took 4 neighbors to call and finally they came out after 9, shut off our water, said they could not completely shut off the main break and brought in 2 large steel plates to cover the hole that the water was creating.  

So here we sit 6 hours later, still no water and no sign of the city, really?  It is not surprising knowing our city, we have FIFA in town and I am sure they take preference although they dont pay the water bills or taxes or anything else.  

I have jugs of water, along with bottled water for the cats and I. I did manage to get a shower and wash all the dishes from yesterday and fill a tub for flushing a toilet, but the tub wont last long.  I thought about making myself a litter box out in the garage.

So how long will it take the city to fix this.

At one point before they came we had a guyser that sprayed a neighbor house. I am pretty sure if that tall tree had not been there they would have had broken windows.  

At least it is not winter and ice and we still have electricity. It is supposed to rain tomorrow night maybe we will all be out in the street taking a shower.

 

 

Licorice

 No not the candy, but I do love licorice even the black stuff.

 Licorice is one of my feral toms. I got him trapped 2 summers ago and got him fixed. He was Charcoal's dad, one of Lila's babies, a girl.  She got hit by a car and was only 6 months old. I never got to pet her.

It has been almost 3 years since he has been coming to hang and eat.  Lately I have been able to nose bop him but tonight he let me pet him for about a minute as long as I stayed in the house and reached my arm out the door.  

Lila let him hang with her and the kittens, I often wonder if they recognize him, cos when they see him on the deck they run to the window and make little chirpy noises, especially Lila.  

As we all know with ferals everything is on their terms, so I will take the baby steps with him that he lets me have. But for tonight it is a huge score.