In the House

The Dining Table

As mentioned earlier, this week, I am focusing on the dining room, which is located at one end of the living room and leads to the family room and the laundry room, which is off the family room.  So far, I've cleared the dining table (I had my sewing machine and a crumb piecing project at one end and some baking equipment at the other end), dusted the furniture, and vacuumed the floor.  I spread a different table cover - a longer white table cloth and a shorter purple table cloth I had embroidered a long time ago over that.  The purple table cloth was made for a smaller, oval shaped dining table I had, a long time ago.  The larger flowers at each corner have cutwork in the centers and between the outer leaves and the table cloth is hemmed with a drawn thread hem.  There's a set of matching napkins, too, with only the drawn thread hem.  My daughter has told me that I should embroider a smaller scaled flower on them.  I told her I'll think about it!  LOL.  I'll have to find some matching thread in the first place.  I looked through my cookbooks, but, didn't want to declutter any at this time.  This room is "done" for this time around.  I will tidy the laundry area for the remainder of the week.  

This morning, neighbor S called me with the sad news that her mother-in-law had passed away, early this morning.   I was sorry to hear that; she had been a kind lady.  She didn't speak much English and I spoke no Armenian, but, we used to have long conversations with many hand gestures and S's daughters translating from time to time.  I sympathized with S and asked if there was anything I could do to help; she said that family and friends will be visiting and asked if they could park in my driveway if needed (it's hard to find street parking, especially in the evenings, on our street because most houses have several cars and they are usually parked on the street) and also, if they could also have the use of my trash cans.  I said yes, of course, but, I'll need the drive way free for M to park on Friday evening when he is here to tend to the garden.  But, otherwise, they can use the driveway.  I noticed that at least one car was parked in my driveway this evening.

Brunch was a tuna salad sandwich (which was not on the menu plan!) and I had more tuna salad on crackers at tea time (Dancer had a share of the tuna, too, before I made the salad).  Dinner was rice, chicken curry, broccoli leaf mallung, and peach chutney.  There are leftovers for tomorrow's dinner, too.

Today, I am grateful for:

- Being able to help S by letting her guests park in my driveway
- Afternoon sunshine
- The electric space heater and electricity to run it
- An afternoon spent repairing the quilt
- Internet services

Today's joyful activity was video chatting with my daughter.

Plans for tomorrow (Friday) include more housework and tending to the garden with M.  

How was your Thursday?  What are your plans for Friday?