Ramblings as Ever

8:15 am

                Here’s something surprising – I feel grumpy and overwhelmed! Well I’m going to write and maybe that will help. I’m also eating breakfast while I write because I feel kind of sick to my stomach and hope oat bran cereal will settle things. The fair, which is in less than a week, is of course a big part of the overwhelmed thing.  And last night we went out to the pub (where mostly we talked about worrisome things) and I drank a glass of wine and left feeling pretty crappy. And then could not sleep last night which has been happening more and more.

                Anything good? Well maybe new bunnies in the next few days. We’ll see. Which brings up another concern – the rabbit ordinance. Sounds like it will be put off yet another day, to come up wed maybe. Should I prepare somehow? And how? And what the hell do I do if it doesn’t pass? And what the hell do I do if it does?  I’m down to 13 adults, one of which is Radish who will be leaving soon, and Onyx who also should be leaving soon, and Caruso who I hope to bring to the fair. And will I be able to set up my tent at the fair? So damn many rules to follow and keep track of.

                I guess after I write and feed buns I will run. I ran yesterday and the day before. Maybe I should put that “ran.” I went for about half an hour – just barely – and ran most of the time, but also walked some. Still it’s a start. And harder than doing it in the gym, but it is do-able and a lot easier than driving down to South Hadley.

                The ToDo list is massive. Mostly fair stuff. Mostly gathering stuff and organizing stuff at this point. I warped massive numbers of stick looms and passed them all off to B. I must check on how many needle felting forms I have and if I need to make more. I’ve been obsessing about the surprise spinning contest, and I think I will just do One Handed. I don’t know if she has done that before. But I need to gather materials for those, like roving measured out for speed spin, and figure out what I need for knitting. Oh blah it is all making my stomach hurt.

                I weaned Cassandra and B. Cream’s babies a couple of days ago. That gives them a full week before the fair.

One of Cassandra's

Another of Cassandra's - though she was fostered to Bavarian Cream

I just need to find a cage for weaning Crystal's.

These are Crystal's. They are definitely ready to wean

I think I would be ok with weaning Amber and Beatrix’s few, since they are so huge. They will be young – only 5 ½ weeks, but they are big and robust, so I think they’ll be fine. I don’t think I’ll bring any litter of tiny bunnies because everyone wants to keep peaking at them and it is hard to manage. IF I have any tiny bunnies.

                I will drive in to set-up night with R tonight. That is good. C will be back soon an that is great.  I got together with A a couple of times last week. We met at Starbucks to write. I think we may try to make that a regular Wednesday thing, though we need to find somewhere better that is not so noisy with music. I found it quite distracting.  I think I had better get to it and feed buns.  And run? Funfunfun.

Just for the fun of it I will post a few Corgi photos:

checking out the baby bun

Adding his 2 cents to my grading

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SUMMER!!!!

8:11 am

                So here I am. Summer. Meaning grades are in, work is done, except for a meeting sometime next week. Now the big push and focus is the fair, coming up in less than 2 weeks, really in just one week. Am I ready? No. of course not. will I be ready? Well, I guess I’ll have to be. Am I looking forward to it? Well, in a way. I do feel a bit burdened and worried. I will try to focus on what will be fun. G has promised to do bunnies the whole weekend, for which I will pay her, so I will be able to focus on everything else like workshops. I am teaching 2 koolaid dyeing ones, as well as the needle felting. Thank goodness B will be doing the 2 weaving ones. Oh and I’ll be doing the spin/knit contests. I’ve never done them and I’m not so sure I know how. I’m thinking of getting hold of a guy who usually “vends”  who at least in the past always participated, for some tips. Or I’ll try to get hold of an old Woolgathers member, it would help if I could think of her last name…. since she used to run them years ago.

                Being done with work is so freeing, but of course is a mixed blessing because it also means I am really on my own pretty much all day long. Be careful what you wish for….. Mostly that’s a good thing, but it can get lonely. But then, once I get started on things, the loneliness goes away and I am just involved. Like carding. I can’t wait until I can spread out all the dyed (and un) stuff I have shoved away in the sun room to figure out what I want to card up. Trouble is it is raining and seems to be slated to do that for the foreseeable future, so it is hard to spread out. I could put some effort into tidying the sun room so I could spread out in there better. Right now it is full of sticks in various stages of being warped for the stick weaving.  I’ll bring them to the fairgrounds on Monday and leave them there.  Of course that is not all that’s taking up lots of room. I seem to have acquired quite a collection of drum carders. I have my regular one, the one I bought in NY last fall, Nyssa’s, and now the unfinished one that a friend gave me. All very fine except that they take up quite a bit of room. I need to find some storage space for them.

                I’m sitting here munching on these shredded oats cereals that G bought. They are not like your typical shredded wheat, since they are very sweet. Very tasty, but I do not need to be scarfing them down. I did realize last night, though, that munching on cereal as a snack is not a bad idea, better than potato chips.

                So plans for the day: continue to work on stick warping and making the needle felting blank pads; errands – to webs for needle felting supplies, get a gel bike seat cover (I biked yesterday and ow! my butt is so sore!); fix my fair tent; ply the angora I spun; clean out some cages and get ready to move babies to new cages; fill out application for RiverFest. Is that enough of a ToDo list? I know there are other crucial things that I’ll think of. It worked out so well to have supper all made and ready to go by early in the day yesterday. We’re having burritos today, so it is harder to do much ahead.

                Ok, time to get on it.

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