It will be a weekend of watching the tropics. Sydney is home from Gainesville for her first weekend visit, so sewing is not going to be high on the priority list. Kurt was gone all week, and he is back just in time to start following Tropical Tidbits for the latest storm updates. There might be a couple of days off midweek to sew the windy days away. How are your projects all coming along? Misterlinky is below. Please keep us all up to date on your progress.
The weeks blows by in a blur of activity right now. I have kids lined up to sign up for college visits and ask for advice on applications and essays followed by meeting with coworkers and then time to get work done. I've got little guys rummaging for felt and glue for flags. Then there is the administrivia that still comes creeping back. The learning curve is steep, and it is something new everyday. So far I am a big fan of the new job.
The morning sunrise photos are getting just a bit harder to capture as the days get shorter. If the sun rose straight over the horizon, I could still capture it and not get stuck in morning traffic, but with the usual banks of clouds delaying the appearance of the sun, it is often making a late start right now. The clouds do help make such striking colors though. I look forward to finding out what the day will bring each morning.
Sewing is isolated mainly mainly to weekends, but I have not been brining home lesson planning and grading, so there is time now that didn't use to exist. I got the light blue star sewn together and the bright green is waiting for its turn. I have cut out some parts for black and brown stars, but I don't think I have enough fabric variety yet. Grey and black can coexist nicely, I will just have to rummage in the bins to find out what is there. I will pull out another block collection today and take evaluate its progress. I know September isn't really the end of the year yet, but it is starting to feel that way. Holiday plans are just around the corner!
How are your blocks coming along? I know that September isn't the end of the year yet, but I am still starting to enjoy the idea of putting some tops together soon.
A new month! Is there anything more fun than digging into a new bin of scraps! I know we did blue earlier this year, but it is a color that truly needs more time to digest for most of us. When I don't know what color to choose for a gift, I almost always go with blue because it works for everyone. We are waiting on the rocket launch again. It is scheduled for 2:17 today. Hopefully things will go better than Monday. Because we are still waiting for the Artemis, here is a photo of a rocket launch from last September. The halo effect is still one of my favorite visuals.
Sydney moved into her college dorm on Thursday. We have officially moved out the last of the children. What a strange feeling to have just the two of us rattling around the house together. Good thing we still like each other!
I did manage to finish the binding on her t-shirt quilt just in time. She was very specific about which quilts to include and where to put them. It starts with her daisy girl scout shirt and ends with senior powder puff. So many memories!
The first week of the school year is officially done! It is so nice that we almost always start on a short week. Such a huge change to not be in the classroom every day. I am having plenty of time with the kids though, and they are starting to come in for help with resumes and applications. Lots of training so far and figuring out what I am supposed to be accomplishing.
The family was all in Virginia this week moving Anna into her new apartment at Virginia Tech. She is having fun getting settled in. Because she was in dorm for 4 years of undergrad, this is her first apartment, and she is full of questions about how to do things like setting up electricity and getting and Wi-Fi router. Sydney will move into her dorm on Thursday and we will officially be empty nesters. What a strange thought! All those years of raising kids and having them around all the time just to suddenly have them all move out.
Counting down the days until school begins for real. I think things might calm down a bit then. I am probably wrong about that though. I have managed over the years of RSC to curate a nice collection of orange. A few are already trimmed into squares and strips for my blocks this month. I will have some time to sew orange today, but I also need to make the flags for our homerooms. I will probably pop into work for a bit and try to get some things ready for the start of school. We will train the teachers on homeroom Tuesday, the day before the kids come back. Then we will meet with homerooms every day for the first week which should give us a chance to start decorating our flags. I had a 4 hour training session on Thursday when I finally got a full picture of how the new job is supposed to work. All summer I kept asking when the training would begin. Somebody dreamed up the job, funded the job at every secondary school and that somebody had have a clear vision of what we are all supposed to be accomplishing. So now my head is full to bursting with new information and things to do.
Just two more days left in July. I am working frantically steadily to get caught up. I think that I can! Though everything looks like a bit of a mess at the moment, all the pieces are in the works and the scraps have been sorted and cut. Now I can spend today and tomorrow getting everything sewn together. Many have already guessed that August will be orange this year. I used to struggle with orange, but through the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I started to enjoy the variety and spark that it adds to quilts. I have a reasonably sized basket now and I have tried to work it into quilt backs and bindings this year to keep bulking up the scrap supply
It is a busy time at school right now. Surprisingly there have been so many teachers in for pre-pre planning. For me that has meant lots of running around and checking on new people, meetings to discuss curriculum and training sessions of various sorts. Official pre-planning will start next week which will mean lots of meetings. We are all still defining my new job together, so it has been lots of fun with new things to learn. Today is for sewing though!
