Bathroom sinks

When you have a little person in tow- you have the opportunity to see lots and lots of public bathrooms in your travels. As far as being clean - I don't think you can beat an Irving gas station - especially those Blue Canoe ones. Besides the fact that there is almost always fresh coffee on! I do limit my coffee on a road trip - opting for water instead - but you know, sometimes a fresh cup of coffee just hits the spot. Irving excels at having clean restrooms and the truck stops even have extra facilities for truckers which I am sure they appreciate.
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This is a photo from a Wal-Mart bathroom. These are the new sinks that seem to be going in at many public restrooms and they are very nice for 2 reasons... 1st off - by expanding the size of the sink basin and eliminating the huge countertop - Little Boy manages to keep his sleeves/jacket front reasonable dry while washing his hands. Many times I have to change his fleece jacket when we get back to the car after a trip in to a bathroom. Not that it is really the sink users fault that there is water everywhere - most bathrooms have those super high powered air dryers now without a paper towel in sight - so how is one to wipe up the water that spashes onto the counter in the first place? LB is pretty sensitive to the noise - those super high powered ones, yikes! so we don't even use them - I usually have paper towels in my bag and if I don't - we pat down our hair with our wet hands.

The 2nd great thing about this sink - it has a little black sensor - wave your hands in front of it and out comes the water. Turns off automatically. A great water saver, I am sure, but also very nice that you don't have to touch a faucet that may not be so clean after washing your hands.
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As usual - I had to pick Little Boy up so he could reach the soap dispenser, which you can see is up above his head in the photo. It would be nice if they started installing these things a tad bit lower. But at least the sink is nice!

My Perfect Day

What makes a perfect day? The other day was a day much like any other day (day-off at least) of my life. Nothing exciting. Nothing unusual. But it just seemed to flow, you know?

I enjoy my morning coffee and a bagel with garden cream cheese. Mmm. Quickly browse the internet. Morning cuddle with my son. Make the bed. Vacume (something that always makes my son pick-up his toys!). Mop. Clean the bathroom. (I like the smell of a clean house!) I putter around my office, getting a few things done that need doing while my son plays with his trains. Laundry tossed in. Lovely noon meal - DH is a good cook! Dishes done. Switch laundry over. Play outdoors. While it is still cold, the sun is out and my husband and I sit in the sun, drink tea and just enjoy watching our son play (ok, so actually we are re-charging our batteries after racing around the yard giving our son wheelbarrow rides!). We go and take some photos - I am teaching my son how to use the "big" camera. I sew a bit (while Little Boy creates a new Lego creation). Fold and put away the laundry. We eat again. Do the dishes. We watch some TV together (Scooby Doo). Bath time. Bed time. A beautiful child sleeping. Quiet couple time. A good sleep.

Nothing special, but everything so special. I took this photo. My perfect day.

Sunday Stash Report

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Field of Flowers progress - 70 1/2" X 79" and ready for borders! It looks wider than long in the photo, but that is just the angle - once I have borders on I will be able to get a "hanging" photo but I don't want those ba-zillion outside seams to pop just for the sake of a photo.

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Scrappy Bargello - a free pattern at http://www.quiltville.com/. Very easy. Great stash buster. I used lots and lots of odd ball fat quarters (brights and whacky prints!) plus a fair amount of older fabrics from my stash, especially a big assortment of medium valued fabrics that I always pass over when looking for contrast. It was a hard quilt for me to finish though - I did not expect it to take so long to sew together! Sew, sew, sew! But I kept at it - pinning and sewing slowly but surely. And finally - I was so close to being done, how could I not finish the 6th stratta? I think I might have enough black for a narrow inner border and will probably have to buy fabric for the outer border... I will have to take a look. I am leaning toward simple borders since the inside is so busy.