RIP Mrs. Wingfield. God speed. May you no longer be in pain.
To Tressa: I wish you peace, my dear friend. You’ve been caring for your Mom ever since we met back in 2015 at Riverside Intermediate. Prior to this, you looked after your sick grandson. You are a brave, incredibly caring person. I am privileged to call you my friend. Once things are settled, take some time to rest and figure out what you want to do. It’s your turn. You’ve certainly earned it!
XOXO, your bossy “little” sister from another mother
Ding! Text message from our local quilty home stating the shop lost its lease and is closing. Big sale now through Saturday. Wait-what? Sadie’s about to lose her quilt shop? She absolutely adores the owners and enjoys our biweekly visits. Hubs just reminded me I need to take Charlotte to redeem her gift certificate this Saturday. Now to text her mom.
Meanwhile, I sincerely hope this text was a mistake. (Updated to add: No mistake. The shop is indeed closing on SATURDAY, 11/12 and I think everything is going away, including the online biz. Not sure about the long arming services.) No mention of closing was made when I was in the shop two weeks ago. I know things have been tight for the shop, but didn’t realize closing down the brick & mortar side of the business was on the horizon. I will definitely miss visiting and sew days with the staff.
This leaves ONE quilt shop within a 30 minute drive of my home. The thing is this particular shop’s not necessarily the friendliest place to visit. It really depends on who’s minding the store. So thankful for my sizable fabric stash. Guess I’ll be joining my Friday sew day ladies in ramping up the online shopping for quilty stuff when necessary.
Keeping one eye on the election returns while I continue cleaning and putting things back after the interior painting. My hope is for a clear winner in every race. In Georgia, this means someone receives 50% or better of the votes cast. I don’t think I can stomach another two months of campaign ads in the Warnock v. Walker race for the US Senate seat.
Right now, Governor Kemp and Senator Warnock are leading their respective races. That’s pretty much what the political pundits predicted. We’ll see if that continues to hold as the night goes on.
The local races – especially the school board and state house rep – are the ones I’m most interested in. Districts were redrawn very creatively this year. I have no idea how we wound up in the districts we’re now in, but we obviously don’t matter to the candidates as we received no visits, no mailers and no phone calls from any of them.
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