Weekly update - September 29, 23

I'm very happy to be at the end of a busy week, especially because the business caught me completely off guard. 
  • Tonight is the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. We made a beef and broccoli dish with pan-fried noodles, dumplings, and moon cakes for dessert. And by we, I mean J. made the dinner. In honor of the celebratory aspect of the day, I bought more then the usual amount of dumplings which made everyone happy.
  • I have no picture of the moon for you, but the past few nights it has been huge.
  • With only teens, we did not do lanterns. I'm actually not sure I could have added 'find or make lanterns' to my week even if I had wanted to, though.
  • I was in an all-day natural dye class today. It was excellent. I can't wait to show you all the different colors we made when Monday rolls around.
  • I went far outside my comfort zone last night and went to a networking event. I can mingle and make small talk when I have to, and I did pass out a few business cards to people who were interested.
  • A student in one of my co-op classes told me I was her favorite teacher. That will keep me going for a while.
  • When did Joanne's stop selling ribbon? L. and I stopped in early last week because I needed some thin ribbon for a project I'm working on. There used to be shelves and shelves of it. Now? There's some home dec trim to be measured, but very little else. Where does one buy ribbon especially if you want to match colors?
  • Even if there had been ribbon, I wouldn't have been able to buy it because the alarms started going off and we had to exit the store.
  • H. spent a long time on Wednesday taking all the choke berries off the stems for me. It was incredibly helpful and I was most appreciative. I plan on cooking them into syrup tomorrow. 
  • Even with organizing a pantry last week, I am out of room again for jars of canned food. I think I will probably need to reorganize the other pantry to see if I can create a little bit more room. 
And that's it, unless you want me to tell you about all the driving I did this week, but I don't think you do and I certainly don't want to write about it. So I'll end here with the hope that next week will be more peaceful.

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