Kaboodle and Dusky were socked away in their favorite sleeping places for the day. Boy, cats sure know how to pass time on a rainy day.
There were lots of other things I could have been doing. Like repairing the Christmas tree skirt and cleaning up the spare bedroom from all the Christmas boxes and paraphenalia that had gotten dumped in there the past week and rounding out my holiday menus by looking at recipes. Oh, and baking Christmas cookies. A rainy, gloomy, cold day like this one was perfect for baking cookies. I had the butter and the eggs. Hmmmm. But my subconscious was trying to stay away from that because I know I'd be dipping into them too much. Cookies and diabetes, good bedfellows do not make, even if you make them sugar-free. That's one of my weaknesses. COOKIES!!! And, for some reason, Christmas time has become the mother-of-all cookie making time.
Speaking of eating. Have you ever made Ants on a Log? Any good Girl Scout would know what that is. You take celery, spread peanut butter in the crevice, and then add as many raisins on top the peanut butter that you want. Very nutritious and yummy snack, for all ages. I mentioned that because that was my lunch today. I have also invented Fire Ants on a Log. Do the celery and peanut butter like I told you and then put dried cranberries (or Craisins as one package calls them) on the peanut butter instead of raisins. Very nice.
Later I did decide to repair the Christmas skirt. I've had this skirt for a couple of years now. It's green and has all sorts of teddy bears, of course, sitting around circle. It was something I found at a fabric shop that you had to cut out and seam together. I put some bias tape on the hem but did a really sloppy job. Plus the bias tape I used (some I found in my sewing box) was really too narrow for the task but I, the practical person I am and hating to run out for one item, used it anyway. There were lots of spots where the bias tape didn't hold to the hem. This year I vowed to fix the hem proper. BUT...it's my sewing machine. (Hey, Eva, you wanted more pictures of me, well, here ya are!)
Now, mind you, it's a Singer. A good brand. But I keep having trouble with the thread looping in big clumbs underneath the material. Adjusting the tension doesn't help. It loops big and/or small no matter what tension I put it on. I was nearly ready to throw the machine out the window but since I'm not a throwing kind of person, and these windows would be expensive to replace, I resisted the impulse realizing that it was midnight and what-the-heck was I doing trying to sew at that hour anyway? So, politely and sensibly, I went to bed. Bill was keeping late hours, too. He finally moved off his computer when he saw I was trudging down the hallway to the bedroom.
Good night. Sleep tight. And don't let the bed bugs bite.