A Day to Relax?

10:30 am
The big day after. And I woke up, relaxed in bed, meditated and got up thinking how nice it would be to write lovely Morning Pages. But then I went downstairs and got sucked into family stuff. I am at the family property and we got into a needed discussion about the woodlot and Trust et al. It wasn’t how I wanted to start my lovely “vacation day,” but now I can write. Well, maybe except that now I am out on the porch and others have gathered here and there is lots of random discussion about Facebook entries and other family junk. Oh well. What would be nice would be for me to find someplace far from the madding crowd, but I don’t know if that will happen. I feel like if I left the porch it would be oh so rude of me. I wish I didn’t care. All kinds of woodlot/family/property discussion is going on all around me. And it is of course stuff that is full of conjecture and what ifs and tends to go round and round. I really don’t want to listen to it. And last night I really didn’t so much want to even be here. I think I would have preferred to stay at home. But I also felt compelled to come up because of Mom being here, that I “ought” to come up to visit briefly with her. But really, being around my family can be stressful for me. If none of them were here, then sure, it would be I suppose nice to be up and enjoy the lovely fall day. I did bring my wheel and I suppose in a bit I will get it out and spin, though I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that outside as it is windy.
    Saturday I joined some of the Amherst 350 folks at the farmer’s market on the common to advertise our event. I told them I would come sit at the table and bring my wheel and a rabbit to attract attention. It worked pretty well. Except it was windy and made the spinning part annoying. And the bunny I brought was not that happy to sit in my lap while I spun. It worked ok while one of the others held her. With me she got restless and nibbly. In all it was kind of an exhausting 3 hours and I got really thirsty and a bit sun-burned.
    Yesterday. Well, it went pretty well, pretty much as expected. There were some groups that I thought would be there that did not appear, the solar oven demonstration was not that great – I thought we would get folks to make their own, but really our demonstrator just made one and then we had a few demo ones. A student brought the one she made in Middle School and it worked great. The demonstrator had a commercial one that also worked well. My rinky-dink homemade one was not so great. Of course it helped a lot once we got them all into full sun. It was pretty shady there at the pond at first, and unfortunately the tables were all set up close to the road and in the full shade, so the ovens had to be moved kind of far away closer to the pond. Once there, the commercial one got up to 300 degrees. Mine got hot, but not hot enough to get the jars of dye hot. I am inspired, though, to make a few more, using a mix of the technique I used, and newly gleaned ideas. I got so many boxes from the liquor store, and I think they are the perfect size for putting mayo jars of dye in. It would be cool to see if I can get them to even work on cold but sunny days. After all, in the amazing heat we had this summer, one could practically just put the stuff out in the sun, as I did at Three Mile with the Koolaid Dyeing.
    So now in spite of myself I am getting sucked into all kinds of family discussion. It is ok, but I think I will give up on attempting to write.
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