In the kitchen. We don’t use the living room much although we should. It has many, many books and no furniture. It is a partial clothes drying room, book storage room, and exercise facility. The uses are not going to change but I need to find the time to get in there and tidy up. The kitchen has a table. We eat at the table. Right now, the far side of the table has a stack of books. I need to find the time to tidy up.

To me, belly up and tidy up are synonymous terms. I think of dead fish when I hear belly up. It’s the beginning of the end for them. It’s the beginning of the end when I have to tidy up because I’m then wasting valuable time doing something I don’t want to do. I inwardly go to the top of the fishbowl.

Hmm, this analogy is not the best, but it is not worth tossing out with the goldfish bowl water. There, a save.

The quilt we took home

Today I thought about the literacy center, and how I will bring it to life. I’d have a terrarium. And I’d have a turtle living in a nearby terrarium. And outside, a fenced in area. I’d bring my baby goats there, to hang out. People will stop outside and admire the goats. And they will stop inside and admire the turtle and the terrarium.

I wonder if turtles fight with one another or just crawl into their shells when there is a conflict.

Pete hung up the quilt today, in the lobby entryway. It is quite stunning – an attention getter. It has lots of bright colors, and the books draw your attention to the other books on the shelves. Now maybe I will make a quilt called Hoarder – it will contain several piles of books, and on the topmost book there will be a tuna can. Down below, a cat will be staring up at the topmost book. The titles of the books will all have to do with animal behavior. One book will say something about tuna.

And who knows? Maybe I will make a quilt. I do have a treadle sewing machine. If I learn on it, I will not think it hard to operate; this as opposed to learning on a modern machine.

What I need most is time. Amazing how it has become so elusive. Of course, when you get up at 9:15 a.m. like we did this morning it is even more elusive. The sun now makes an appearance at 10:30 a.m., which is coming over the distant peaks. And it’s just three days until the solstice.

I would like the time to learn how to quilt. I could do it, yes, if I do have time.

Tomorrow I am staying home unless a proposed appointment materializes. I cancelled getting together with the BLBP artist in residence and left the place looking good. I spent considerable time today tidying up. Har har. Soon I will say, and now I see the light.

Next: 345. 12/19/24: Heave ho ho