Sharing my frustration

Ah yes...something similar....but it happened with a serger :)

Needless to say a emergency trip to the fabric store was in order, after the air had turned a deep, dark shade of blue :)

-Irene

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--Mae West=20

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Having previously learned a *very* serious lesson (as in fabric from stash, so no replacement available) about checking the whereabouts of everything whizzing through a serger, I think I am beyond that particular foible. But with this heat and all....

Beverly

Oh no! BTDT. Got the t-shirt too....and it has this whacky wiggly line of topstitching.... ;)

I just did something similar the other day. Was working on a pair of capri pants for DD. Was topstitching the waistband...you know the almost next to last thing that you do on a pair of pants. ;) Caught the edge of the pocket bag. Grrrr. Luckily I only caught about 1" of it. So I was able to carefully pull out the topstitching, free the pocket, and restitch. I didn't have to redo the whole thing even. Just very carefully lined everything up...with the tip of my tongue stuck out and my one eyebrow raised way up...just so it would work...stitched over about 3 of the original stitches on either end. Looked great. :) No one else will ever know.

Have some therapeutic ice cream. That will cool you off and there are no calories nor fat in Therapeutic ice cream. ;)

Sharon

----it's finally cooled off here. Highs only in the 80's today. I almost feel like I need a parka. LOL

Yeah, that's what this was, the pocket bag caught in the side-seam topstitching. Rather than remove just the three inches, I picked out the whole line of stitching. Don't know why I bothered, because DD would never have seen a few overlapped stitches, but "Mom" was looking over my shoulder. ;-)

Too hot for ice cream even, it's melts before hitting the bowl. I'm thinking iced tea, and lots of it...or a blended margarita. When I walked out on the deck last night at 12:20 AM to chase the dog down for one last potty break, it was 86 stinking degrees! AND HUMID! And this AM it was already 78° when I got up at 8:00. Yuck this is western OREGON, it's not supposed to be this hot! :-(

Ok, ending my whine now, you may return to your regularly scheduled postings...

Beverly

Heh. Now you know what we wilted Southerners put up with as a matter of course. Makes us strong...oh wait, that should say 'makes us grumpy.'

I'm sure, though, it's much harder if one isn't acclimated to such conditions. I feel so bad for people going through this heat wave without a/c.

We're rejoicing over the tiny bit of badly-needed rain that fell overnight, and it is out of the 90s today, for a change.

Doreen in Alabama

Yabbut, you *choose* to live there, right? See, it's not supposed to be this hot/humid/nasty here for more than about one day a year here. We're heading into the third straight day, with no cooling at night. Bah!

I am very grateful we put in AC in 1995. I do try to keep it set high enough that it's not running 24/7, but I dropped it last night from the normal 76° setting to 75°.

Around here, rain would just add to the humidity so I'm not sure I would welcome that. A nice cool breeze off the Pacific, now that I would like!

Beverly

Yes, at some point in life it does become a matter of choice, although you always have to factor in family, and roots. And a lot of it may be the 'better the devil you know than the one you don't' truism.

Everything around here was parched. Humid and still dry...seems impossible, doesn't it?

If you figure out a way to bottle and sell that Pacific breeze, I'm a customer.

Doreen in Alabama

DH puts four mint leaves in when he brews a half gallon of green gunpowder tea. But this last time he picked from the other patch of mint, which has bigger leaves, and took only two.

He puts the leaves and a quart of water into a glass saucepan, sets it over very low heat, leaves it until brewed, strains it into a half-gallon canning jar (I saved a dozen when we moved; you can't buy that size any more for fear somebody will mis-use them and sue the jar company), then puts another quart of water on the leaves and sub-simmers it again.

Joy Beeson

My DMIL always had fresh (from her garden, natch) spearmint leaves out when she served iced tea. And lemon slices, of course. I had never seen the mint-leaves-with-tea before I met her, and to this day, I cannot serve iced tea without mint leaves. And I always think of her. :-)

Beverly

It's getting to all of us. We're in our second week of 100+ temps, and I am getting very, very tired of it. Yes, I did turn on the air conditioning, and although I turned it off last night after the year's most spectacular thunderstorms, I will soon turn it on again. The predicted storms tonight have not materialized. Seems like every day is hot, hotter, or hottest. Do you suppose this means 5 feet of snow this winter? Did we tick off Mother Nature?

The high temperature Friday was an all time record high here,

104° and IIRC the overnight *low* of 74° last night was also a record high for a "low" temp. I was really shocked when I went out on the deck past midnight into a steam bath. It was a little cooler today, and just to keep this on topic, my sewing room is in the basement, which stays much more comfortable even on hot days. So I sewed up a "storm". ;-}

Beverly