A look back to last week, when I had way more hope than I do right now.

Monday, October 28: Went to have dinner with my new-ish friends who live next to the water. Stopped at the same spot as when I visited them the first time; now the lake has been drawn down for winter the water was further away.

 

Tuesday, October 29: Woke up to a light dusting of snow. Still some hanging around in the afternoon when Mr. Karen and I went for a walk.

 
Wednesday, October 30: Spent some time in the studio going through more of the boxes of stuff I’d taken from my mom’s house when my brother and I cleaned it out after she died. There was a not quite finished corduroy crazy quilt top (what’s the non-ableist term for that? I don’t know) that I remember thinking at the time I packed it that I could finish it one day. I believe that’s the same thought that led my mom to hang onto it. Looking at it more closely, I saw there were some bleeding colors in spots along with pins rusted in place securing some of the patches, and thought about what it would take to complete it and decided I didn’t want to make that effort. This wasn’t a family heirloom unfinished project. If I get back to quilting, I have plenty of other things I could work on. So I let go of this.

 
Thursday, October 31: Overlapping seasons in my driveway as the aspen leaves are still falling along with more snow.

 
Friday, November 1: Oh look, more snow.

 
Saturday, November 2: Still snowing on the mountain and raining in town. Ran a few errands down there, and tried the newly opened Lebanese restaurant, and decided to do our walk by covering almost every aisle in a big box store, supplemented by a few aisles in another slightly less big box store. This colorful display of buckets is from the second one.

 
Sunday, November 3: Mr. Karen and I took a walk down to the lower parking lot, still gated off this time of year but soon enough will be filled with vehicles of skiers and snowboarders.

 

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