This morning it was colder than a _______ (you fill in the blank, there will be a test later).  Subsequently of course the sun shone, right in the front window making any viewing that direction almost impossible.  I’m not talking about JUST the TV, either!  However, those new drapes work great and are easy to draw, so we did.

When I use my serger, it has to sit on the end of the dining room table because the sewing machines [two of them] occupy the only other logical options.  They are full time employees, unlike the serger who has totally random part time work.  I’ve closed the curtains so I can watch TV while using the serger.  After a bit of head scratching and too familiar pondering, I’ve remembered how to change the thread, all four spools.  Minor interruption when the youngest granddaughter requests my presence on Skype.  Back to the serger and two garments later, wow, I really got them done!  Clean up my mess, do a bit of hand embellishment on one of the two drapey shruggy cardigan deals [for our teenage granddaughter], and it is lunch time.

Next, cut out a cloth book project, which included a trip to the warehouse for the lightweight batting to put in it.  Not going to draw a map, but make a note that one goes out the back door, and behind most sheds etc. to access the warehouse.  Nice spot of warm sunshine, smell of coffee from the coffee roaster down the road, birds singing… .  batting is not there, of course, because…it is already inside!  Well, heck.  Just found it and resume measuring and cutting when there is knocking at the door.  Our gate is locked and we heard no vehicles.

Sure enough, a lady from a few corners up the road is there, apologizing for her cow being in our yard.  “There’s a cow in the yard?” I dumbly ask.  “Yes, I was driving by and well there he was.”

Well, my gosh, who knew?  The cow is a well-grown steer, and isn’t in the yard but out grazing on our drain field.  With the curtain closed in front we never saw movement, and [remember] had only been out behind the buildings.  She had to duck under our driveway gate to get up to the house and alert us she would be traipsing back and forth trying to corral her vagrant bovine.

Nice gal, know her through her grandkids, so of course I offer to help. If nothing else make sure the steer stays out front and does not come up between the sheds where it can run amuck in board piles, through the carport etc. Visions of “Ada the Ayrshire” on a bad day flicker through my mind.  But, the sun is shining, and I need the exercise.  Right……