Before we get started here, I would like the record to show that I have been seriously nap-deficient for the last 20 or so years. I intend to change that starting now. That’s a joke. I already started. FYI – the chair pictured here is the infamous scratched one that precipitated the delivery of two free chaises. I always meant to get rid of it but I never could do it. It’s been living in hallways and spare bedrooms all this time. Now it runs free and wild in the dappled sunshine, next to a freshly spray-painted Walmart table.
Where is the time going? I’m busy all the time now , doing what I can’t tell you but I don’t have enough hours in the day to do it. I’m enjoying the little domestic activities that were, while I was still working, just a source of annoyance to me if I did them, or a source of embarrassment if I didn’t. Things like straightening out a closet or reorganizing a desk drawer. I do confess that more than a few drawers around here would provide a surprise much like a joke snake leaping from a can of peanuts for whoever opened them. I’m still haunting the kitchen producing loaves of bread of variable but still substandard quality and very, very good marmalades. Little bit sick of the washing up, though.
And crocheting dishcloths.
I hope you didn’t just laugh. I feel embarrassed that I like the act of doing this and that I like the end result. Me. A respected expert in my speciality field, a high powered executive business woman. Who is retired. I guess I’m not those things anymore. Now I’m a maker of dishcloths.
But look at it: my lovely double sided scrub mitt. There’s satisfaction in this, at least for the moment. At least until I get this out of my system. At least until the rain stops today and I can get back outside. That chaise lounge is not the only thing yearning to run free .
Cripes Suzette 
What a lovely napping corner! And I love your fluffy scrub mitt. Don’t be ashamed of anything you do from here on in; you’ve paid your dues… If you feel like simply napping by the pool for the rest of your days, no one -who matters- will care.
Would it be possible to put your crochet pattern for the gorgeous scrub on your website? Also noticed that I was able to find the red wine vinegar dressing by Wishbone — 15 oz. @ Walmart for $1.98. Just FYI, had my first pick-up grocery order from them yesterday and it worked like greased lightening. And no, I don’t work for them, but very pleased with this method of grocery shopping especially in Minnesota.
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