october days

the weather today was lovely and mild - even though rain was expected - but we are still managing to think about the coming cold.

Eily snipping stalks from the thyme patch.

preserving celery and white beans
and trying out the winter coat. i found it at the thrift store and discovered it had a few rips along the seams where the polyester stuffing was coming out (like that's gonna keep a kid warm). so i fortified it by adding alomst 100g of carded wool and now it's divinely poofy and warm.

Today: another Tuesday. I spent most of it tiling the last wall of the bathroom, finally. And I had a chance to do some mending, including repairing this pillow. My Oma's things arrived here with my parents the other day: her sewing supplies, some measuring cups (one from Holland!) and kitchen utensils, and this pillow which I made for her from a kit when I was in grade school. I remember it always sat in a blue chair in the corner of her living room.