I slept in very late today. My bed was so cozy and I was listening to my audiobook. I didn’t have an appointment until 1pm so wasn’t in a big hurry to get going.
Then I remembered that I wanted to go to KimatDesigns as on Fridays no appointment is needed. I did cancel my mani/pedi at 1, though. I also remembered I had some DVDs to return to the library (Broadchurch Second Season). I also remembered I had to visit two other libraries in person to renew my cards as they had both expired and wouldn’t let me download any more audiobooks.
At Kim’s I purchased some fabric that would kinda go with Winter Rose Manor. It’s for The Light of Winter - which I consider a companion piece.
The fabric I used for Winter Rose Manor was a remnant of R and R Reproductions 40ct Fawn. The 40ct Vintage Country Mocha is a bit darker but should look good. It will be almost the same size as Winter Rose Manor. I also bought two WDW flosses I needed.
After finishing at Kim’s I dropped my DVDs off at the Whitby Public Library. My ultimate goal was the Courtice Library and I needed to drop into the Oshawa Library so I decided to go to the south Oshawa Branch where parking would be free. There, I reinstate my expired library card. Yay!
I then headed to Courtice and renewed my card there as well. In front of the library and rec centre is a cute, little public skating rink that folks were enjoying.
There was even a stack of the things beginners could hold onto - I don’t know what they’re called. All they needed was some gentle waltz music like Strauss’ ‘Skater’s Waltz’ playing in the background.
I then remembered I needed to go to the downtown library in Oshawa after all to get Season Three of Broadchurch. My freshly renewed card worked well, even though it cost me $0.25 to park. That being done, I picked up some groceries and headed home.
A few days ago I noted that the rubber buttons on the Santa Fe remote had disintegrated. This was the spare remote as the same thing had happened to the other one a while back. Rather than go to the dealership and have them charge me over $300 to replace the remotes, I did some investigating and learned the rubber part could be replaced. I ordered a set of 2 on Amazon for $10 and they were delivered while I was out today. I watched a few YouTube videos on how to replace the rubber so confidently set out to do that.
Once that was done, I thought I’d test them out to make sure they worked and nothing happened! The little light lit on the remote but the car didn’t respond. Well, crap.
I went to start the car and the battery was dead. I don’t remember the last time I drove the car and it has been sitting in a cold garage for a couple of months.
I have a potential buyer for my beloved car and thought we’d take its last trip on our little road trip tomorrow. I dug out the 12’ jumper cables out of the other car and got the Santa Fe started but I didn’t want to turn it off for a while so the battery would charge up. I thought I’d check the tire pressure and sure enough, they were low. I have a portable tire inflating compressor that plugs into the 12V of the car so pumped up the tires while the car continued running and hopefully the battery continued charging. I then took the car for a bit of a spin. Back at home, I cleaned out the rest of the cup holders, console, secret pockets, etc. in preparation to hand it over to the new owner.
Once the battery was all charged up, the remotes worked well. A bit stiff but definitely functional.
That was a lot of activity in a small amount of time.
Tonight, I’m going to kit up ‘The Light of Winter’ and do some stitching on the other Spring Rabbit. Oh yeah, and binge-watch Season Three of Broadchurch.
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