Spares?

Isn’t Instagram inspiring? My graddaughter was inspired to forward pictures of a portable quilted checkerboard that led a double life as a tic tac toe game. 

I was inspired to make it for her.

I rifled through my fabric stash and found some leftover bits from making her baby quilt! And I chopped up (upcycled) a denim shirt and pondered checkers. 

Wooden checkers! Drat!  I used to have the exact checkers for this moment, but they had been carted off to the thrift shop as we downsized once and then twice. 

Back to the thrift shop I went. 

Sure enough.  Lovely wooden checkers. Brown and cream. But not enough. At least that is what I mistakenly thought. And so I bought another set.  At a different thrift shop.  It came bundled with two other sets. I had needed 24 checkers.  I now had 96! It’s good to have spares, right? 

Poised and ready

Isn’t it amazing that fruit is picked and processed in a flash with zero effort on our part. And is kept just for us in the frozen food aisle, poised and ready for action? I usually buy blueberries and have them waiting in the wings for muffins and waffle topping.  It’s become a family tradition. I suppose it’s that tradition that led me astray. I knew blueberries would be on the menu and somehow, knowing and assuming became one. As I stood staring into the freezer at Save On, adding strawberries seemed a lovely extra.  Sliced of course.  But there had been a run on sliced strawberries and the shelf was empty.  Down, down I glanced and there, to the rescue was a giant bag, several bags worth but I bought it anyway.  When you have decided on sliced strawberries, nothing else will do but sliced strawberries.  

At home I opened the freezer and stared in amazement.  Nary a blueberry to be seen. But there were three bags of sliced strawberries.