Monday, September 30, 2024
Carla arrived with a prize in hand! Remember when we bought countries of the world stickers for the church fall festival? It doesn’t matter if you do. I loved the stickers. Carla and the church ladies put together a world traveler basket with several books on great places to visit and an atlas with flags (!Flags! I am eternally trying to learn flags. I love a new opportunity to try to get them in my head!). I bought ten raffle tickets and put them all in for this basket and I won!!
Whooo hooooo
Carla and I signed up to take a class at the Fifty North Senior Center in Northfield. I met a woman who would be teaching the class at a craft fair. She paints patterns with dots and swooshes and teardrops, and they are beautiful. We signed up to learn how to do it. We convertibled on yet another 80 degree September day and then had lunch on the patio at Fielder’s Choice, a sports bar type place with a really good selection of food. (We both had fancy salads, like ladies who lunch) We were talking and talking (sometimes I let Carla talk a little too…in case you thought that didn’t happen) and I said I wonder what time it is. 1:04!!! Class started at 1:00!!! SCURRY. We arrived at 1:15 and they were just starting. We got positive reinforcement for being irresponsible. How 2024.
The class was grand fun. The teacher was very encouraging and it was loads of fun to be initially bad at making dots and swooshes, then to get better and better. There were ten other women who moaned and groaned about how they weren’t good at it. Um. Didn’t you just start ten minutes ago? Did you expect to be great immediately? Huh. I told them they were worse than middle schoolers and they said they weren’t. 🙂
Our class cost $19 and we got all our little tool dealies and two little canvasses to take home. What a bargain!
On the way home from brass band, three deer crossed the road in front of us. We stopped and everyone looked at each other for a while. I know deer aren’t exactly rare, but I love seeing them every time I see them. Hi deer!
