Porch-- the word brings nothing but pleasant associations. Dining al fresco, rocking chairs, iced tea, leisure, neighborliness, summer. True enough but there is more-- green slimy stuff on the parts near the ground and black mildewy stuff on the rails and posts up above, spiders and insects in every nook and cranny and a much interference with light into the actual house. So yesterday, a beautiful fall afternoon, John and I attacked it with the hose, buckets, spray bottles, brushes and earth friendly cleaners (quickly abandoned in favor of good old chlorox). Looks great doesn't it? We have done as far as the stairs and will continue on this afternoon. We listened to Joni Mitchell's disk "Miles of Aisles" with long remembered live versions of all her best songs. Our working together was congenial and satisfying.
This is a very small quilt that I made in May after our tiny quilts class. The strips are 3/4 inch before sewing. I spent all summer postponing taking it further and couldn't really see how to quilt it. Finally I got the idea just to make a red french knot in the center of each light rectangle. Made a big difference in how it looked and soon I will have the binding on.
Am listening to David Copperfield (again) as it is one of the two Dicken's books selected for our Senior College class-- the other is Bleak House-- a book I have also read (listened to). I was looking forward to the class but our first one was mildly annoying. The teacher finds it valuable to read aloud for whole pages and I don't. We will see how it goes this week-- I am giving up the quilt guild meetings in order to take the class.
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