Wednesday ...

  Yesterday I got one of the chairs recovered, but this morning I had to go back to the hardware store to find longer screws ... and then back again this afternoon to get a battery screwdriver and a bit to fit the screws. (3rd times the charm!).  It has become a project that I will finish on Sunday after the battery has charged.

  While I was out I stopped by the Greenbrier Christmas Depot and picked up ornaments for February, March, and April.  Pictures soon when I get the rest of my March decor out.  It feels like I came home yesterday and today with more on my dodotodo list than I left with.

  Monday night I will work on covering the sofa.  Probably another trip (or three) to the hardware store next Tuesday.

  Today, however, I was distracted by a heat-wave (woohoo!  63F!) and spent a while cleaning old birdseed off the back patio so that Charlie and I could just enjoy the fresh air.  Windows were opened, and even Gracie got a chance to roll around.    

  While I was running errands today, I stopped into a few shops on Main Street I hadn't been into before.  One of them was a "this & that" store with antiques and whatnots.  I've been looking for bookends to use for my cookbooks and found two large blue Mason canning jars dating from the mid-1950s.  

  Since my dietary choices have recently been reduced to try to keep from becoming a full-blown diabetic, I'm going to fill them with some white rice and white flour that I had already purchased, opened to put in another container, and now can't eat.  Photo soon ~ they have been washed and are drying.

  It was a shop with so much to see, that I'm sure I will go back to find more decor for the house and kitchen.  There were several paintings that I would like to have a 2nd look at, and many books and cookbooks to look through.  I did get a very large one of vegetarian recipes while I was there.

   The other shop I went into was M Shop WV with postcards and other goodies that I wish I had found last fall.  Another shop I'm sure I will visit again.  They had sweatshirts and hoodies which have become my work attire lately.

  Speaking of goodies ... This coming fall I want to bake and send German Christmas cookies from my grandmother's recipes and am going to make flavored sugars to use in the recipes.  I'm drying the rind of a blood orange right now to use, and will soon be drying lemon rind, and ordering vanilla beans.  I picked up some small glass jars to use.  

  I slowed down enough today to enjoy a fresh spinach & baby greens salad with pepitas, parmesan cheese chips, bacon, dried cranberries & sesame sticks with sun-dried tomatoes vinegarette.   

  I can't say I'm going completely vegan/vegetarian at this time, but lately, I've been dealing with side effects from changes in meds and insomnia.  Not a fun time for me.