Category: Covid19

After Coffee with Judy, I went to set up a second laptop at Gina’s office so that she and a friend can both attend Zoom classes about massage work – two different courses – two different rooms.

 

We bought some topsoil/compost mix for the vegetable garden and Wilhelm started exercising his wheelbarrow skills.

I was able to spent most of the day finishing this piece of leather tooling.
The original art was a drawing a student of mine did in class about 30 years ago.  I never complained if they were drawing while I spoke – I knew that they were taking in everything I said.  I would hate to teach now in the age of cell phones!

We went for a walk around the block and I took this photo of the sunset.  For many scenarios the phone cameras do a really good job, but not sunsets.  I used a panorama shot for this, hence the straight wires that are now bent out of shape….

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I had Coffee with Judy again.

In between things  I have been working on migrating my leather instruction blog to a new host – that will be ongoing for a few days.

Then I gave the last push to get this Bible box done.  It worked and I am very relieved.

 

On FaceBook I described the above photo with “Using the last bit of late afternoon sunshine to enjoy the last few drops from the bottle of Laphroaig while finishing the last few loose ends on a long tedious project!“

This evening I joined Gina for a walk around the block.  Luckily my feet are not toooo tender after the winter.  It was beautiful!

I then I still had time to use this 40 year old beast to cut my own hair:

Funky day.

Started again with “Coffee with Judy”.

Then called my mom and helped her with her computer.

I did leatherwork and almost completed the beginner blog post.  When someone on Facebook said the could not open it……

So then a big part of the afternoon was spent with a service desk chat with my service provider.  Not resolved – they escalated to a technical boffin.

This afternoon I took Wilhelm to a local archery range so that he could practice a bit.

 

 

And I modified the neckline of the T-shirt I had on.   What the hell is the problem with men’s T-shirt necklines that they have to be so chokingly high!!!!   Just plain stupid!!!!  BUT scissors do wonders:

Watched our church service online and was disappointed that it was a recorded service (few days before) and not a live broadcast.  I would rather watch a glitchy live stream than a recorded program where the person says “Good morning….” and you know he is probably telling a lie – he probably recorded this in the afternoon.  In these a-social times it is just not good.

I carried on recording video  for a big new blog post on leather tooling.

Quick visit to Mark to pick up excess groceries that overflowed at Ruby’s Pantry where he volunteered.

It was a good day.

Here is the Journal cover I made yesterday afternoon:

I took Gina very early to her friend’s office from where the three ladies were departing to take the friend’s move to Holden, MO.  They left at 8am and were in Holden at 6pm.  She is coming back on Monday.

I then took Wilhelm to buy more lumber for the vegetable garden he is building.

I made was able to finish a few cable organisers.

And I started with a very elementary leatherwork instruction for my leather instruction blog at 

www.leatherlearn.com

 

I also found and cleaned a pendant that I received from a correspondent in Engand – Patricia Bury.  Her husband Derek made it out of sterling silver.  He sent it to an assay office in London where they applied the for stamps that indicate that it is pure silver, was assayed in London, was made by DTB (Derek Bury’s makers mark), and that it was assayed in 1979 (the stylized “e” shows that).

I was able to join a morning devotion with a previous pastor, Judy Zabel.  Just about ten of us, but just to meet new people and share with them was very precious.

Still didn’t get the motivation for the treadmill.

Me and Wilhelm drove to my store to check that everything is still OK there and then we did a bit of shopping.  I wanted a bluetooth headset, but BestBuy only did curbside pickups – you have to order online first – so I rather ordered from amazon where I had a wider selection.

This is one of my leather pieces that hangs in my store:

In the evening we joined our small group again for a zoom get-together.