What is not fun: I am never going to get rid of all the scraps in there! I have worked with these same scraps and made I don't know how many things from them and the tote still seems full!
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Today Roger needed to go to Menard's, the local home improvement store. The one that is closest to us. We had another stop or two, so we were gone two or three hours. When I walked in the back door, there was a smell. Oh, a good smell.
It smelled just like Mrs. Hayes' house used to smell. It is hard to describe, and I have no idea why mine smelled like that. It is a smell I have only ever smelled in her house, and I didn't know why hers smelled that way and I don't know why this one did either.
Mrs. Hayes was one of my mom's best friends. She was probably 10 yrs older than mom. And for a while was a real close neighbor. I am not sure if I had been born when they lived close to us, I think I was but not sure. I just always remember that no matter where she moved to, we would go visit her once or twice a summer. And between times, her and my mom would write each other.
I don't remember what her husband called her, but she always called him MR. Hayes...I don't know if she did that when it was just them, but I never heard her call him anything else. He was older than her, and when he died, to the best of my memory, she had a hard time finding a place to live. She even tried living with another lady for a while....I am not sure if she just rented a room or if she shared the whole house. (Or maybe she only talked about doing that)
Then she finally got into some senior's housing, and had been living there a while when I started driving. Then mom and I would stop by a few times a year. And that is where I really remember the smell from.
She and my mom talked quilting, and no matter if I had just been there the month before, I would still get her to get out her quilts till I could look at them. I don't ever remember her getting tired of doing it...maybe she was just happy that I was interested.
