It's mostly sunny heading up to the mid 80s. It feels a little more humid vs yesterday but not too oppressive. The humidity will really ramp up by Tuesday when the temperatures are back up into the 90s. No chance of rain showers here until probably Thursday. The outdoor plants will continue to need hand watering for a while. You can tell fall is around the corner with the earlier sunsets, and the back to school sales advertised on TV.

Supposedly my package from Herrschner's is set to be delivered today but it just left Indianapolis last night and there are no further tracking updates yet. I hate dealing with FedEx. Why send a package up to Indiana from Kentucky? The crazy thing is it was in Chicago before all that and they could have just put it in a truck heading eastbound on I-80 right here to North Jersey three days ago. Why bounce the box around the Midwestern states for three days?

After lunch I need to run to the store for a couple of things. I'm out of laundry detergent for one and I should go to the laundromat later after dinner. I have a Michael's coupon that expires today. I should run in for a skein of cream colored Loops and Threads yarn I meant to buy two weeks ago for my crazy quilt style afghan project. Last time I was there I saw they added more sewing notions. Some stores are supposed to have more fabrics in-store beyond the limited selection of fat quarters they always have since Michael's bought up the Joann's exclusive fabric lines, although most of them will likely be sold online only. My sister from Virginia sews and bought a lot of her fabric from Joann. She makes both clothing and fabric crafts. Brick and mortar fabric stores are rare finds now. There used to be a sewing shop in a neighboring town that carried a good selection of fabric, sewing notions, and sold sewing machines as well. The shop moved further away into the county west of us to a semi rural area that's a pain to get to. It's also bad how expensive fabric is now. It prices some sewists out of the hobby.

I got an email from Michael's the other day about how macrame is a trendy hobby again and they're selling all sorts of macrame supplies now. Everything goes around in cycles. Every so often macrame as a hobby goes back into the spotlight for a little while but it still kinda screams 1970s and early 80s to me anyway. The youngest millennials in their late twenties and their thirties and the twenty-something aged gen z-ers are rediscovering handicrafts and are going all in. It's actually a positive for them since it gets them away from their cell phones for a while but they're referring to all this as 'granny hobbies' assuming only people old enough to be grandparents engage in these crafts which is weird since the forty-something aged millennials, who are their older siblings and cousins, got hooked on knitting and crocheting a dozen years ago, were writing their own craft instructions books, and were big on crafters meets ups at libraries and coffee houses. It's weird watching the younger generations think they're reinventing the wheel when it comes to hobbies every generation has been engaging in for hundreds or thousands of years.