A Lazy Sunday and Half Square Triangles

Sunday mornings have become laundry time for us. Since I decided last month that I can't stand doing the boys' laundry anymore, I've been taking them to the laundromat so they can do their own. At home, it takes forever: since we're on a well, we don't have the pressure needed to quickly fill the washer, and since we use a geothermal heat pump we are an all-electric home, so the dryer doesn't get all that hot. Subsequently, it takes forever to get one load of laundry done, start to finish. Both of the boys figured ways to get out of various parts of the routine. I was still doing almost all of the work. New plan: Laundromat. Yeah, it costs twice as much as doing it at home, but I'M not the one doing it!

The first couple of weeks, I would help with the proper settings and folding and stuff. Today, DD did his all by himself. Completely. Whoo hooooooo!!!!!! The big draw for him is that the laundromat is next to the train tracks. So he gets to railfan and do his laundry all at once. While he's doing that, I read or do computer work. (Today it was my new Evening Program on bison. Got quite a bit done. Wish they had wifi at the laundro, though.)

FTD opted to do his here, while I had pesky brother out of the house. DH helped him and they said it's all done. (I haven't checked his closet yet......) DH even did some of his own laundry. He does it sometimes while I 'work' out west, but hasn't done much here, because apparently, I don't 'work' here. Grrrr.....


Grown up time
We spent the afternoon with two other couples, which was a nice change of pace for me. We drove over to Fremont, Indiana to visit a small vineyard. Yes, it is possible to make decent wine in the midwest. We got to taste ten different wines, which was interesting. As usual, I liked the odd ones. Then we went to a nice family style Italian restaurant for dinner.

Half Square Triangles?
Oh, yeah, I found a new blog from the Empress's blog: Quilter in the Gap, who is a Michigander who has transplanted to Cumberland Gap, TN. You'll know this story: a friend of hers was in a swap, and ended up not making the quilt. So Friend One gave Friend Two the triangles. And now Friend Two has decided to pass them along. Pick me! Pick me! I hate cutting triangles, but want to get good at pinwheel blocks. So yeah, I'll take a pile o' triangles off your hands.


Coolest Quilter
And here's some really cool news. My college room mate, Jan-Bob, is an art teacher and quilter. She is in several virtual 'Bees' and starting on January 1 of this year, she has been making a block a day. She's using all solids and she just grabs the material that floats her boat that day and sews them into to all sorts of interesting patterns. Well, now, I knew this, but another blogger for the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild in San Fran CA, found Jan-Bob's blog and said it's genius. Well, I coulda told 'em that. But now I'm telling you.