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Had terrific plans for the day that have been postponed thanks to Hurricane Alex.\u00a0 Planned to pick up my sis Janice, buzz over to pick up my bro Jim, run some errands and go out to eat.\u00a0 They live 90 minutes away from me and I didn’t want to drive that far in heavy rain or run to and from the car while getting drenched.<\/span><\/p>\n If I don’t see those promised raindrops soon, I’ll be really miffed.<\/span><\/p>\n Oh well, I’ve vowed to make the day productive.\u00a0 I’ve been working to resize a favorite sewing pattern.\u00a0 Yes, since I last made it, I’ve added an inch in girth.\u00a0 Grrrr!\u00a0 Today, I’ll cut not-so-favorite fabric and assemble the blouse to make sure the pattern alterations are accurate.\u00a0 If it fits, I have a new knock-around blouse and will then use wonderful fabric to make a nice one.<\/span><\/p>\n As we say about pottery… if the lid fits, it’s functional.\u00a0 If it doesn’t, it’s art.\u00a0 I wonder if this applies to clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n Hubba hubby Bob will be making dinner on the grill so I’m free from cooking duty today.\u00a0\u00a0 All’s well in our world.<\/span><\/p>\n Shirl<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had terrific plans for the day that have been postponed thanks to Hurricane Alex.\u00a0 Planned to pick up my sis Janice, buzz over to pick up my bro Jim, run some errands and go out to eat.\u00a0 They live 90 minutes away from me and I didn’t want to drive that far in heavy (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,13],"tags":[18,8,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}