Waste Audit, 14 Days

Contents of sewing room garbage can - 14 days

Homework for Master Recycling class: a personal waste audit. Held on to all household waste for 2 weeks to see what I could see. This is the bag that came from the sewing room trash can. Clockwise, from top (before sorting): 

• Marathon of Hope sticker. September - when a young girl's thoughts turn to Terry Fox. My daughter ran for Terry.
• Two lunch bag love notes can be made from one grocery store receipt. 
• Yellow name tag from a hand-me-down backpack from the kids two doors away.
• Candy wrapper - one of two unexplained bits of trash found during my audit. Curiosity plus independence, or the beginnings of hyperphaegia? Too early to tell, but the next stage of Prader-Willi syndrome is long overdue.
• Thread snips and embroidered, used, alcohol swabs (you read that right) - the Humatrope Collar is finally finished! These are the rejects from making the labels.
• Broken twin needle - altered some clothes for a friend. 
• Granola wrappers - haven't been eating properly.
• Fish food package - my daughter finally owns a pet. Violet the beta is very well-fed.
• Light bulb from sewing room - I spend a lot of time here, late into the night. Not quite sure how to dispose of it...

Lunch bag love notes

Garden 14: Harvest

Much of this year's harvest: pickled peppers, rhubarb.
Basil submerged in olive oil is said to keep a year in the fridge!

Dinner: cheese omelet for my family, leftover Chinese sweet and sour fish and mixed veggies over reheated penne for me. Marinated cucumber salad, with chives, basil and pepper from my alley garden. Too hot for kids, almost too hot for me. My daughter ate 1/4 of my fish. I left most of the pasta. Not a great combination, but Iron Wok forgot the noodles! Kids: milk. Me: water. No major disregulation. No disregulation at all, come to think of it. Pretty good night.

Earlier there was a potentially exhausting exchange with my son. I persevered in "collecting" him (Neufeld phrase) and in the end supervised the making of a lunch of quesadilla with lemonade - but not before the tortillas got chucked across the room and the pan was loudly tortured by the flipper.

Next: a lesson on reading instructions: 1 cup water, 1 1/3 tbsp lemonade powder. Wait. Back up: first, an introduction to measuring cups and spoons. Disregulation has denied us these learning opportunities until now. Things are looking up.

The Ratings vs the Truth: "You aren't killing anyone real,
and you get your anger out". Hmmm

I went back to writing in the sewing room, my son to killing hostiles in the living room. My husband says he's very, very good at Battlefield. Better than my husband, by far. I'm swinging back and forth over the whole shooting video games issue. Shortly after our return from Japan I banned them outright, with an edict to convince me they would not damage him before I would ease the ban. Now I'm starting to relax. When I hear him playing on-line I'm reassured. He calls out racism, sexism and bullying. He's chill, dawg.

Garden 14:  Harvest

Garden 13: Abandoned Stuff, Things of Beauty

Garden 12: Death and Potential

Garden 11: Japanese Maple Tree and Sedum (?)

Garden 10: Foxglove and Weed Digger

Garden 9: Veggies and Sweet Pea 

Garden 8: Gnomes and Slugs

Garden 7: The Lady Next Door

Garden 6: Euphorbia and Rusted, Metal Things

Garden 5: Cement Bench and Wallflower

Garden 4: Maryjane

Garden 3: Family Portrait

Garden 2: The Neighbours'

Garden 1: Lilac Bush and Abandoned Cans

October 3 Sale Specials

1 Sale Down, 3 to Go

Our last sale was one of the best we've had to date - pre-loved and factory left-over fabrics and notions flooded out of our little store! When all the customers had left we took a look around and noticed barely a dent was made on what we still have!

HELP! We have got to clear out as much stock as possible before we leave our location at the end of October!

Special for the next sale:

Patterns - FREE!

Zippers - FREE!

Vacuum Bags of 3m lengths of fabric - FREE!

Notions - $2 or less!

Rolls of fabric in the green bins: $2 each, any size

Fabric on bolts - $5 ea

See you there! 

Saturday, October 3

10-1

Vacuum Bags of 3m lengths - now FREE

Most notions $2/bag

Boxes and boxes of free stuff outside

Green bins of rolled fabric - $2 any roll