Odd title? Well, I’m sitting here drinking my morning cuppa coffee (the first of many) and a blue jay swooped past my window. While the rest of the country is in weather Hell, we’re having unseasonably sunny and warm here in the northern Willamette Valley of Oregon. The weather people are starting to babble about drought, which is a serious concern, but right now I’m basking in sunshine and an abundance of birds at my feeders.
I maintain a hummingbird feeder and have hummers at my backdoor all year long. They must nest in my willow or pear tree but I’ve yet to see any baby hummingbirds. I also use a wire suet feeder in my large quince bush outside my kitchen window. This feeder is my “entertainment center” while I’m cooking or washing dishes.
But my favorite feeder is the large green platform feeder that husband built for me. This feeder is set outside our dining room window. The beautiful feeder sat snubbed by the birds for a few years and became mostly obscured by the overgrown butterfly bush. Once we pruned the heck out of the bush, the birds arrived.
Why am I going on about the birds outside my windows? Because this busy webmaster often sits at the table with my laptop while working on one or another of my stores/websites/blogs. It’s Monday and I’d like to get the week off to a good, productive start. My job du jour is mending. The stack includes a
Loro Piana leather jacket that has a fist-size hole in the cashmere lining, damaged & missing buttons, and damage to the sleeve lining.
Burberry’s green and plum merino wool ruana that was a moth-feast site. Sigh… there must be 20 small holes. I must be crazy to do all that mending but after I’m finished I may keep it for myself.
Chanel purple cashmere v-neck pullover sweater, again with moth damage sprinkled across the bust.
A lovely Scottish Brora cashmere open-front cardigan in a dusty shade of plum. If it were my size, I’d keep it. Alas, it’s a small and I’m not. My loss will be someone else’s gain.
I have my mending work cut out for me… so I’d better get to work.