T Stands for Tuesday

  T Stands for Tuesday is when we share a drink related post with friends. You are most welcome to join us with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth-find link in my right hand column.

  I actually had a couple days of "normalsy" is that a word?? 😉
     We have most things in the house moved to the lake house-still have two deep freezers that will go in the basement and Hubs has some large items-but we need help getting these moved.
    Even though I am not the one that is ill, driving up and back every day for several months is really really tiresome. I stay overnite a couple nights now. Pretty soon Miss Calico kitty will be coming with us to stay at the lake.
    I did get allot of sorting accomplished. Some things are not in place like the dressers for the bedroom so difficult to load them up.
    Today though and also late yesterday I have tackled my craft room.
I am not good at visualizing space so I have discovered that both of our extra rooms are much smaller than what we had in the wood's home. We each have a closet that helps out.
    I probably should have gone through more and eliminated lots of craft things, but like I have mentioned before I am just not ready for that & my stash collection of all things fibers goes back to the '60s. quilting, sewing, weaving and I have added spinning with loads of fibers yet to spin, rug hooking, journaling, paper, soap making, herb salves etc dyeing. Did I leave anything out?? haha
    I did eliminate allot of books-mostly cookbooks and gardening books, but I still ended up with lots of books both craft and art books and novels.
    Soooo today I did manage by the end of the day to see my floors in front of my big desk and sewing table. Still boxes to go through-some things will sit on my desk, but I have allot of spinning and weaving tools I need to figure out how to store.  I am getting there though
     On the two back to back steamer trunks (that sits across from these shelves, I put on top another trunk full of felted wools, and a wicker full of weaving yarns. So that area is now pretty high-oh well

These two shelf units are to the left when I walk in the door-I originally had all of my quilt fabrics on here but needed space for books etc so all of my fabrics are now in big plastic storage containers except for my 1800's reproduction fabrics which are in the shelf in my closet--I have needed to change up things as I started figuring out where to put things.
   These shelves in this photo have rug hooking, paper making, lots of dye supplies, soap making pans and molds, lots of weaving reference materials, novels, and there is some yardage to the right and the bags are silk, linen, lace, velvets and more
  All of these rooms in the house except for the bedroom and kitchen-dining area have no overhead lighting-so it is too dark now to take more photos.

This peak in the closet with shelving-lots of patterns and some of the reproduction fabrics

Tubs of quilt fabrics, and also felted wool which I didn't have room for in the trunks  This area is also loaded up with bags of spinning fibers
   this is going to have to get moved this fall so we can get to the crawl space in the attic to blow in insulation fun haha

shelving in the closet

Soap making supplies and butters for lotions etc also with basket of hexagon project.

  Sunday I woke up early enough to view my first sunrise on the lake

For my beverage reference today-I have had a taste for coffee lately. I have to have decaf and the coffee sold in stores still has too much caffeine in it for me, as does restaurants. So I searched online and found that the swiss water process is 99.99% caffeine free which of course is more expensive.
   After reading about several I settled on this one. They grind your coffee the same day it ships-and it tasted soooo delicious and I didn't get sick from it-so a happy camper for sure. Tastes just like "real" coffee

I got to see this sailboat sail by over the weekend.

Update on Hubs-the visit to the surgeon was a disappointment. We had to wait an hour and a half on him-talked to us for less than 5 minutes-and ordered more tests-I was Not happy and let the nurses know it.

Last week he went into the hospital where they checked his heart, all the prior grafs, stents etc.  That went well. 3 of the 4 grafs that were done in '99 are in excellent shape as are the stents. The issue is he needs valve work-this surgeon was pushing for open heart to replace the whole valve but back in '99 he had a massive staff infection that kept him in the hospital an additional 3 months so we are not liking that option.  We got a call this morning for another appt with the surgeon for the end of this month to discuss options-not happy about the wait time as his health is declining allot in the last couple weeks. So I wrote a long note to the surgeon's staff and they ended up giving him an appt for next week thursday-so it does pay to pursue.

These ducks swam by the dock while I was watching the sunrise--Happy T everyone