new stash sewing

busy morning on a cool, overcast sunday.  first thing braised a small pork butt for this week's meals...onions, cider, mushrooms, apples and spices....yummmm!   it was on sale a few weeks ago and lucky to find one under 2 pounds as most were 6-7 pounds...yikes!  then took a mini-break from the senior center quilt project to do something absolutely different.  had some black fabric on the shelf i'd been saving for this and jumped right in getting 4 squares done lickety split.  this is going to be another totally-from-stash quilt using more of my solids.  you've seen it around the net done in different colorways but mine, of course, is going to be kitchen sink scrappy.  the first one i saw was done in mauves, dusty dark blues, grays and it was stunning.  always makes me think of high school art class somehow...

finally got my hands on this goodie...am hoping sue grafton is solidly into the last of the series, the "Z" book...kinsey milhone is an old friend and am thrilled i've read them from "A"....

and even tho it's fairly early, the nasty natives have already lit up their horrid e-cigarettes.  am thinking this vile perp needs a C6/7 fracture, you know, the kind where your arms are only good for pushing the little lever on your electric wheelchair.  yeah, it's THAT miserable and annoying.  mind you, i am not the smoking police per se, chain smoke all you want outdoors stipulated by the lease, but mr. entitled is somehow exempt i guess....and there isn't anyone with authority who cares to enforce...i am convinced all these property managers are schooled in hell..so far haven't dealt with one that has any integrity....