And the sycamore propellers are coming down.
See how the wind whirled them into a circle on the path? Do you remember as kids trying to pinch them onto your ears, then balance them on top, like earrings? Then tie them into a necklace?
A walk in the park today and there's the first lovely fall sky, cloudy, fast moving.
First tinge of color change in the trees. It's only been down to the 40s overnight, no touch of frost yet.
While I'm waiting for my Misfits box minus broccoli, I'm doing the running stitches around the waist of the skirt, ready to gather into the waistband.
Handy selvedge markings provided a straight line to follow.
Usual approach: two gathering threads, strong thread, running in opposite circles but following the same footstep to make even gathers. Next I'll close the ends of the waistband, ready to pin the divisions in it. Same with marking divisions in skirt body, to get gathers evenly distributed. I think that's for tomorrow.
So Misfits box finally arrived, nearly 6 pm., Four hours later than I used to get delivery. And it felt a bit light when I brought it in. Usually it's a struggle to get it over the step while navigating the storm door. Then I opened it and thought it looked a bit skimpy.
Checked my list and found it was missing several items. So I notified them and will get a refund. A refund doesn't make up for not getting what I ordered when I was counting on it. I rarely had lateness and missing items problems before. And apples came in ordinary noncompostable plastic bags. I never do that.
Since I changed delivery days it's been much less satisfactory. This might mean that Wednesday deliveries (Tuesday packing) are not so good at the source nor at FedEx locally. I think I'll try switching back to Friday delivery (Thursday packing) and see. Misfits may be growing too fast, too. They keep announcing new regions.
What arrived is fine, and here's my salad supper of spinach, celery and a gala apple, with a ribbon of mayo.
But I'm currently a somewhat dubious camper. Poor me!
