The Leaves Are Turning

 

Yesterday was a decent day. HeWho loves to go out to eat took me to breakfast. I wasn't even dizzy! On the way home, the colors were just lovely, but he drives too fast for me to get a picture. When we hit the road to home, he slowed and even stopped a couple of times for me to try to capture the foliage. This is on the road to home, just before turning into our little area. It doesn't capture what I wanted .....

After we returned from breakfast, I had him drop me off at my She Shed. My gardens are fading, but the marigold has grown to three feet high in some places. I made the mistake of bending over to deadhead some mums, but refused to succumb to the dizzy spell. So much to do to organize my shed awaited my attention. 

I had put some pegboard on the wall last year, just to be able to get the smaller items out of the way. It was temporary, so that was the first thing I intended to tackle. I had the wrong bit for my drill and had to ask HeWho to hunt one down. He returned with it, along with Charming Eddie. Eddie was looking for me, but he chose not to stay in the shed with me. Maybe too much chaos bothered his mind. It is bothering mine!

I was making some good progress, having found my thread holders to mount on the wall above the table that will be holding my sewing machine. The small piece of peg that I removed was put to good use on the side of a shelving unit to hold the overflow of cone thread. I have a lot of thread. Now when I open that box, I will be able to simply put everything away, knowing I won't be moving it again.

While I finished unloading the big plastic tote that held my thread holders (I have 4), I found the plastic bins normally used to house things related to tools like screws and nails and such. After I designed the plastic see-thru 1 litre bottles to hold such things for the tool shed in Missouri, I decided they would work in my sewing room.

I was busy patting myself on the back because my efforts were beginning to show and that is when I knocked over the largest one ..... buttons, needles, tiny beads, fake eyes for crafts, and sewing machine feet covered the floor. And bobbins, lots of bobbins already loaded with thread and empty ones. I hate to stop to load a bobbin when I am engrossed in sewing.

Nothing to do, but clean it up and re-sort it all. Had to be done anyway, since the move had a lot of the contents of the drawers in the bottom of the box. Still, it would have been easier if most of it wasn't on the floor, or under other things on the floor. I grabbed the broom, ever thankful that I had swept most of the area before I started, and made a pile of the various things rolling around on the floor.

I picked up a lot of the mess yesterday, all of the bobbins, since I had mounted the thread holder that holds my bobbins on the wall. I will admit that by the time I had put all the bobbins away, after rewinding the thread, I seriously considered sweeping the rest into a dustpan and simply throwing it away. No dustpan handy and me getting dizzier, I just closed up the shed and headed down the drive trying not to think about it.

I got all the stuff up and sorted today. Took me about 4 hours, since I pulled the other two units out of the tote and did all of them. My accomplishment of the day. Dizzy and tired, supper will be beef pot pies I previously froze for a day such as this one!