I am home from the hospital and getting good use of my health insurance with the doctor appointments, tests and drugs. It really did almost turn out to be like going for a 10-point checkup at the car repair garage, only this was a medical garage.

With this bump in the road being taken care of, I will write what I had planned to do last week. In a way I do not want to mention things happening in 2020 but I think everyone will be remembering the changes that took place and maybe writing about them will do or mean something.

Ah, where to begin! The stay at home lock downs are the basis of everything so that will be the determining root of all happenings. This was going to be another travel year and I was planning to go to Ecuador in February to spend a week at the Winter Sun clothing headquarters. We were going to design our own fabrics and have garments made from them. Our Regent Seven Seas 17 day trip from San Diego, through the Panama canal and up to Miami was canceled on March 13 as we landed in San Diego. The result was that we had a wonderful dinner and got to spend the night in a luxury hotel before we came back to Minnesota the next day. (A lot of people spent a week plus there because a large number of ships docked there because of the ban). Re-booked to February 2021 for a 21 day trip, Buenos Aires to Lima, but that also got canceled. We now are trying for July 2021 to Europe. Daughter Nissa did not come this summer or Christmas and we did not do our annual Washington D.C. Trip.

I did keep my mind in place by working on a wonderful Organic Applique project from a shop in Stillwater. A lot of the joy of that project was dimmed when I kicked out a piece of the project in downtown and it was never returned to me. I put the two remaining pieces to the side and still have not really decided on what to do with them. I have ruled out remaking the missing piece.

My cleaning hormones got on high at the beginning of Covid 19 and resulted in a lot of things going to new homes. It really was like shopping at home and I didn’t even need to use the Internet. Of course the major problem was what to do with the bags and boxes of no longer wanted items. We did end up doing about four pickup loads of items to two auction houses. And no, we did not bid on things to bring back four pickup loads of “new” things.

The “out of stock” items became a way of life in areas that no one dreamed out. It was almost like winning the lottery when I got a 10-pound bag of flour at Coborns in May! I had enough on hand to do a lot of baking and sharing with neighbors for a period of time. Sourdough was high on the list of to do items and I refused to pay $45.00 for an $8.00 bottle of yeast.

After an almost six year run at getting my She Shed in shape, it finally reached almost near completion! Oh, what JOY! With the help of neighbors Rose and Tony we got all three looms, including Husband Larry’s Grandmother’s Swedish loom, in and set up. Mention the word “heddles” to Larry and he will tell you he has installed thousands of them. She Shed Studio B is up and running.

Some spring concrete work needs to be done because it was impossible to get done as everyone was booked solid for 2020. One half of the living room is again visible as I had been gathering She Shed items for years in that space. There is carpet under it! Larry’s African trophies can finally be put on the wall since we can now reach it. (Larry put that one in)!

I did not do mask making at first but once I got into it, it became a lot of fun and my masks are now in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the East and West coasts. I still have a Stash! Husband Larry and I have been Covid 19 free and are very thankful for that. We await to see the 2021 program.