I’ve made thirteen linen napkins to go with Don’s 70th birthday table cloth …

using Malka’s hand-dyed linen and Deb’s magical threads, worked in complementary colors with the hem stitches proudly visible …

And if the linen looks a little wrinkled, well that’s as it’s meant to be, in my humble opinion. My modus operandi after laundering linen napkins is to give them a good snapping shake, smooth out the wrinkles on a flat surface (seen here on my bed), and then hang them out to dry on my bamboo drying racks (which I also use for all my other laundry) …

After all, why waste electricity on ironing after saving it by not using a dryer (which also does horrible things to linen).

Speaking of the dryer … ours was 14 years old and the auto-off switch no longer worked. I only ever used the dryer for a few minutes to shake out wrinkles before air drying my laundry. So when a critter got into our dryer last week and died a horribly malodorous death, I decided I didn’t really need a dryer any longer. No more wasting electricity on drying and better yet, I now have a wealth of new storage space in the laundry room. That’s a win-win in my book.

And speaking of winning, I felt a great weight lifted this past weekend with the news that Joe Biden nobly stepped aside. After which I became one of the small-dollar donors who contributed close to $50 million to ActBlue yesterday in the name of making a positive difference.

I dare to hope for the best come November.