Let's not talk about Monday

 My morning started off like this yesterday..........

Yes, everyone wanted some morning love.  When the day starts off in such a cute fashion, where did it go wrong?  Well, I was so ticked (using a nicer word here than what I really was) that I just couldn't share my thoughts in a blog post yesterday.  You know how when you can't say anything nice you just shouldn't say anything?  My thoughts were really not very positive.  It might have sounded something like this........

Let's check Life 360 and see what the hubs is up to............oh!  He's in the field checking to see if he can run!  a little later  Let's check again and see where he is.........oh!  He's in town........at (zoom screen in) JOHN DEERE!  sends text to hubs YOU BETTER NOT BE AT JOHN DEERE BUYING PARTS FOR NEW COMBINE!  response -  I was, but they don't have it, so I'm driving to Sedalia.  My response - What about the warranty?  hubs response - there is no warranty on combines.  Now here's where my mind goes...........wow!  how smart of John Deere!  Create a really expensive machine (the combine) that only gets used 2 months a year and constantly needs new parts and don't warranty it!  Warren Buffet has nothing on John Deere!  I'd be really impressed with the business savvy if I wasn't the FARMER'S WIFE!  And then I think about our local Ag Power John Deere dealership that just built an incredible new warehouse and shop a few years ago so that they could be a parts hub for all the other dealerships around..........is the warehouse just empty?  Can they not afford to stock it after they built the new facilities, or are all the combines just so faulty that they can't possibly keep that many parts in stock?

So I decided to try cleaning up my feelings.

I emptied the bottle and the house smelled really good, but it really didn't do much for my feelings.

So I tried eating my feelings...........

This might have helped had I not been interrupted by the massive lady bug awakening and home invasion.  I ate my feelings while running the vacuum and sucking up ladybugs.  It kinda ruined the beautiful Pine Sol smell I had going too.  I mixed up spray (fortunately we had a full bottle of the concentrate) and started spraying outside the house.  I finally gave up stripped my clothes off which were full of lady bugs and went inside.  Hubs came home (still too wet to combine, but apparently the combine was willing to run now) and said, "Can you believe all the lady bugs swarming around in the field and yard?"  response - "Well I hadn't noticed because I couldn't see through all the ones on the house windows."  It was pretty dark in our house with no sunlight coming through the lady bugs.  The spray started working and hubby sprayed some more.  We took the leaf blower and made big piles of bugs away from the sidewalk and deck so we didn't have to walk in them.  Then, we put plastic over the front door (like people do to their doors and windows to keep the cold draft out).  Our front door seems to be the place that lady bugs come in.  Without the plastic, I would just spend the day standing in front of it with the vacuum sucking them up as they come in.  

Well, after all that, I found about 30 minutes to run some fabric through the sewing machine, maybe sewing away my feelings would help.  I needed to do something to improve my mood before piano students showed up and I went to direct bell choir.  I changed into my Avada Kadavra shirt (the killing curse from Harry Potter) and the hubs asked who was on the hit list, John Deere or the lady bugs?  

Music improved things.  My students are working on Christmas music for our recital.  The twins have been playing Sleigh Ride and Let it Snow.  I told them they couldn't bring on snow until the beans were out.  They said they've been watching the weather and think it might be cold enough for snow next Monday!  

The hubs is tempting the fates with snow thoughts as well...........

Got home from bells, fixed supper and sat down to work on binding my sister's really big quilt with some emotional support............

And we got it finished!

Today promises to be a better day.  I have a few errands to do this morning including a very short Walmart list, but I gotta get some more Pine Sol!  The hubs has virtually guaranteed that he will be combining today.  But if things go badly again, I want to be prepared.  I'd hate to resort to online fabric shopping therapy.  I have declared 2026 to be the year of the scrap quilt, but it's not 2026 yet!

Christi