Truck's fixed, now for the car

And the truck was an easier fix than it was thought it would be. Putting the bypass elbow in took all of ten minutes. Have to keep an eye on the temp guage for a few days to make sure the hoses and clamps seal on it properly, but otherwise, it seems that the truck is fixed to hold it until the car is fixed enough that the truck can go in the shop for the heater core replacement. That's a tiny bit of stress gone. The car? That's a whole nuther kettle of fish, as it needs at least the radiator, tires and alignment to get it back on the road enough to allow the truck to be fixed correctly. The shocks/struts, rear taillight assembly, and new rear rims are going to have to wait till at least spring. Oh, the joys of driving a car that has no bounce at all when you hit a bump, just a thunk of the skid plate hitting the whatever. (Of course, that the car sits about six inches off the ground normally means that it is going to hit pretty much any bump hard anyhow.)

The garden is pretty well dead. The beans are harvested, and the tomatoes are getting pulled up in the next few days, as what blossoms were starting up again have decided to fall off. No sense letting them keep going, right? The radishes are still blooming, which is insane, so more seed pods are setting and I am letting them keep on going till the pods dry, as my seed saving guide says to.

Needlework is coming along. Mom's butterfly lap quilt top is a lovely piece, but I'm getting tired of all the vine work. There's a lot of it. Pieces of it all around the outside edge, just inside the lettering which names all the butterflies, and then SIXTEEN of the same thing in four diamonds all through them middle of the darn thing between butterflies in the middle two rows. Those don't take long, but that's why the greenery is tiring. So I started on a pair of baby bibs that I'll be putting up for sale for a bit of variety when the greenery gets to be too much. Plus there's always the scrapghan, if all the leakage of the antifreeze didn't ruin the yarn entirely.

And things are slowly going up on Etsy. I had a bit of a scanfest the other day, and got a bunch of small stuff scanned in, then spent a couple of hours editing the resultant pictures for size and such, and am now slowly putting all those goodies (mostly Barbie doll clothes) up for sale. I still have a 20-gallon tote of stuff to get better pictures of to put up. That's not a lot, overall, but it's a good start of things to get done.

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