lydamorehouse | Quilt Updates and general Updatery (Reply)

Image: Cats stare intently at a crazy quilt on the floor.

I took this picture late at night (and it's a bit blurry) but I think it still shows how big my pandemic crazy quilt is getting. I recently started working on it again because I got an influx of new material from a friend (see the bin in the background.) Plus, I kind of enjoy that I am just adding things with wild abandon. I really don't care if my stitches are straight, I don't care how well corners match. I'm just having fun.

I also only work on it when I want to. This is, in fact, the same one I showed off over a year ago.

Pursuant to my previous post, I did try a one-on-one outdoors on Saturday. It was not exactly warm out--in fact at one point snow started to fall!--but my friends have a firepit. We sat, wrapped up in blankets, sipping coffee, and watched the fire in their beautiful backyard garden. I stayed probably an hour and a half. We had a lovely chat and good coffee. It was often cold enough that I could see my breath.  We joked a lot about the social skills we've lost, but I didn't notice if we had. I think that honestly, what we may have "lost" is some of the stuff we never needed. Our talk was frank and straight-forward. When they asked 'how are you?' I didn't just say "Fine," but answered with the awkward truth.

I did have a mild panic attack walking through their house to their backyard, but once I was outside, I was okay. I relaxed in no time. So, there is hope for me. I will be able to do this, given enough practice.

In similar news, Shawn got her second shot. Her first one was assembly-line like, there were people waiting with her in line. This time, she said that the clinic was deserted. Where were all those same people who got the first shot with her? Shouldn't they all have been back basically the same day? I've been reading about people not getting the second shot, but this is the first time I've been confronted with evidence that seems to bear that out. We weren't even all that far out of the cities. She got her jabs in Burnsville, at an actual hospital clinic.

I worry about my fellow Americans.

Are they really not getting the second shot? What are they thinking?