I had art class with Genevieve on Tuesday and we did paper quilling - a craft that I haven’t done since the 70s. As with most projects, there are so many new tools that make it easier and give the ability to do more detail, but it is basically the same.
Me, Genevieve, Kathy, Ann, and Judy
Judy and I took down our garden totem from art class on Wednesday morning and packed them away for the winter and I cleaned out the garden shed. Joann had been storing a lot of hummingbird feeders and artsy things that haven’t been used in the three years that I have been here, so I got rid of them and made some room in there.
I had a follow up echocardiogram in the afternoon to check if all is going well with my heart function. The results were in My Chart before the end of the day and it actually looks like there might have been some improvement. I see the cardiologist again next week.
And yesterday was cleaning day at the Bridge household - so nothing to write about except the eleven flights of stairs and 14,000 steps (6.4 miles) that I did. Deb walked Joey, so I didn’t have to be concerned with that when I got home. I did get ambitious and baked a batch of his liver treats for him in the evening.
I took this picture of the pretty trees in the woods behind their house - just as the sun was getting to the treetops and I was starting my job.
My car was due for an oil change, so I dropped it off this morning and Joey and I walked to the 9-mile Creek Trail and stopped at the parking lot of a church and got an egg sandwich from a food truck. It was a beautiful morning to walk the trail - there is not nearly as much water flowing in the creek now because we have had no rain the whole month of September and into October. The morning had a real feeling in the air. I spotted this cute woodland creature trying to blend into the tree.
I joined Judy, Cheri, and Kathy this afternoon to assemble 150 fall greeting cards for hospice this afternoon. Judy does such a great job of designing and preparing them, all we have to do is glue on the inside greeting and add a little bling to them, and leave with a good feeling that I have contributed to a good cause.
Cathy invited me to join her and her group of friends at Tilly’s house (a beautiful home in S Minneapolis that is full of antiques) for dinner and to hang out tonight. Originally, I told her that I wasn’t planning to go - just being lazy and wanting to stay home, but she called this afternoon and said that Tilly was disappointed and hoping that I would come, so I changed my mind and went. I’m glad, because it is so much fun to just hang around with a bunch of fun women, eating, drinking wine and telling stories. We spent most of the time around the dining room table - we had pasta primavera that Sandy made, Cathy brought calico beans, I brought green beans with almonds, Susie brought a salad with tomatoes and cucumbers from her garden and home made baklava, and Heidi brought apple pie from Kowalki’s. All was tasty.
After dinner, we headed to the living room where Susie had a bin full of her hand made wool lined mittens for us to buy. She charges $20 for friends, $30 online and they are beautiful - all made from wool sweater that she gets at thrift stores. I bought a couple of Christmas gifts. Also, Sandy had brought a huge box of antique tea and shaving mugs that she got from a relative’s collection after they passed away. I took only one just because it was from her - I just don’t have a lot of room for displaying pretty items any more.
As we left the house, we were asked to take apples from Sandy’s tree and house plants to reduce the number to be tended while Tilly is gone to Florida for the winter. It sure is nice to have a group of girls to hang out with and I’m glad that I changed my mind and went.
