A friend from high school I haven't seen in forever picked me up in his needing-to-be-washed car. We drove into town and stopped to buy apricots. One place had them for 62 cents a pound, but we pulled into the place that had them for 50 cents a pound. Right next to the store were two sets of tall, steep stairs leading to a couple of shops. I went up the stairs to one shop while he went into the other shop to get the wedding gown he brought with him altered. When I got to the top of my set of stairs and looked back down, it was a dry cleaners with clothes hanging in plastic all the way back down. Near the bottom of the stairs was a ladder full of things they were selling. Not clothes, but fabric and such. I looked at some cute fabric, but when I picked it up it was really a baby block, covered in fabric, filled with polyester stuffing.
Then I woke up.
What the heck? I tried to trace back the details.
- Car needing washing? My car's clean. But there is supposed to be some rain coming in, so maybe I was thinking about that.
- High school friend? He was in the Air Force Academy over 20 years ago and I haven't heard from him since he graduated. But yesterday the quilt I finished was for a child of someone in the Army. And my daughter had a friend who left for the Navy this week.
- Apricots? When my mom was here a couple weeks back we made fried peach pies. Since then, she's been working on perfecting a recipe for fried apricot pies using a variety of doughs. Apricots could have creeped in from that, but 50 cents versus 62 cents a pound? Guess because I like to save money.
- Steep stairs? I do need to go up the steeps stairs at work to find a report, but have been putting it off. I just don't like those steep stairs. (Although in the dream I had no problems with the stairs.)
- Wedding gown to be altered? Earlier this week I was thinking about getting rid of my wedding gown. It's taking up space in my closet and my daughter already made it clear she wouldn't wear that style. And goodness knows I'll never wear it again.
- Dry cleaners? Working at a dry cleaners was my first job ever.
- Looking at fabric? Well, I am kind of obsessed. But picking up a baby block filled with polyester stuffing? My tutorial this week used polyester stuffing.
But how does that all fit together? I wondered that on my morning before-sunrise walk.
I came up with nothing. Not really nothing - I did come away with a picture from my early morning visit to our rose garden.
