I am not looking forward to the rising costs that will take place due to the blanket tariffs that were supposed to take place today, but now will be announced on Tuesday. Then of course there will be our targeted tariffs in reply. All this will do is make life more expensive for both Canadian and American citizenry. We are a much smaller country population wise and GDP wise so this trade war will cause us more problems than our bigger neighbour.
Shopping Canadian is not inexpensive, I have found. In each area of my rather large, sparsely populated country Canadian products are sometimes hard to acquire. I joined a Buy Canadian Facebook page and man, those who live in the east, Alberta, British Columbia and even Manitoba have way more choices than poor stuck in the middle Saskatchewan.
We do have an oil refinery though and the Co-op refinery in Regina hauls gas throughout our province. Surprisingly many of the other provinces do not have that capability as was noted on the "Buy Canadian" page. Thumbs up for that.
Both Canada and the United States will hopefully get through this. I do know that many of us here in Canada will never feel as close to America again.
I haven't listed my goals/projects/plans in awhile so thought I would do so today.
1. Continue decluttering.
2. Finish weaving the placemats (changed from tea towels).
3. Embroider at least one more rose quilt square.
4. Knit the second blanket for Kurt's friend.
5. Cut more scrap fabric up either for use in quilts or for tinkle cloths.
6. Use the leftover fabric from cutting out my coat pattern to make a car blanket.
7. Sew the tote bag that I stitched 4" squares for the front.
There will more than likely be a few additions depending on how quickly I get these listed projects/goals completed.
Everybody have a wonderful evening.
God bless.
