A little winter entertainment

I went to the post office on Thursday to find that Wednesday’s mail was apparently lost in a snowbank somewhere.  Thursday’s mail arrived, but Wednesday’s was missing in action, the delivery truck never made it to the local post office.  I suppose then that I am very grateful that my February Patrones came on Thursday, since the Wednesday mail (along with my WSJ which I get by mail simply because it is usually more reliable than the local delivery person) is still missing.

This issue looks even more exciting than the previous issue and there are several things I want to get to work on. 

I suppose now that I have the necessary sewing out of the way, I can look forward to copying off some of these spring styles.  However I am still dilly dallying over the decision as to whether I am sewing spring or sewing summer (as opposed to mandatory sewing).

We are off to Tucson for the weekend so any decision will be put off until some time next week, after I  have caught up with all the things life will leave at my door while I am away (hopefully including the missing mail). There will be no sewing over the weekend of course, but I am hoping to sneak off to Leandro Fabrics and Buttons’N Bolts while step-son Adam is off at coaching duty sometime.

In the meantime we have been highly entertained this morning by activities, or lack thereof, on the river:

This tug was pulling the barge down river painfully slowly and we could hear the ice crunching but the sound travelled almost as if in slow motion.  The coast guard cutter does come up and cut a channel at least once a day, but I suppose it is cold enough that the ice just closes back up and freezes in place.  It wasn’t long before barge and tug were stopped in place, where they have remained for the past several hours.   It is too bad we will miss the excitement of the rescue.   Once we had a big boat get stuck sideways and block the path of another ship.  In the end, both  got stuck and both had to be cut out and turned around. 

There is always something going on to provide a little entertainment.