From the back porch - April 4, 2025

I need two things:

(1) somebody with some sense to make decisions; and

(2) a talented, eager apprentice with no agenda but mine (an elf, more or less).

There are so many irons in my fire that I'm in kind of a stupor.  

Yesterday was a yucky, stormy day.  I spent a large part of it in my chair, stitching quilt blocks together.  By bedtime, I'd finished Strip 4 and joined the backs of Strip 5. Strip5 is laid out on the sewing room table now, its seam pressed, ready to have its innards joined and its skin sewn neatly shut.  ;)  The plan is to finish Strip 5 today and/or tomorrow.

Innards showing.

My morning routine - coffee, news, email, word puzzle - has distracted me.  One click leads to another, and off we go on a tangent.  

I clicked on a video about painting chickens.  I did not watch it for long because it reminded me that I did some chickens a long time ago - a series of 4 colored pencil drawings portraying scenes in a chicken yard, the last of which needs re-doing because its colors clashed with the other 3 drawings. I think those drawings would make terrific greeting cards.  Off I go, looking for the chicken yard drawings.

I thought I knew right where they were, in the make-shift portfolio under the sewing table, where I keep my better artwork.  I dumped the portfolio contents atop the quilt.  The chickens weren't there.  I did not look for them in the other likely places because I got distracted, admiring my former work.  ;)

Once upon a time, I set a goal of producing greeting cards with these drawings.  The intention was to donate the cards to an animal rescue group fundraiser, and maybe even offer them for sale in a booth or something.  I even bought a card rack to display them. 

(These are not finished cards.)

Most of the drawings have been scanned, and I've created a card template.  I've got enough blank cards and envelopes to fill up that rack.  All I need to do is decide which drawings to use and then print them.  But my printer isn't "all that," and the printed colors are muted.  There's probably a setting, somewhere, that would make the printing better, but I haven't found it.

I should check into how much it would cost to just have the blasted things printed . . . . 

. . . while I work on the quilt.