A Day of Quiet

7:20 am

                The house to myself today, all day. G is at the farm working – harvesting veggies and getting happily filthy, K is at work – all day for a change. I am determined to follow my needs today; to listen to my body. I am not going to push myself, but take it easy and see if that makes a difference in my belly issues. And I think I will try to get back to the routine of meditating am and pm. Of course, the frustrating thing with that is, between meditating, morning pages, and trying to exercise in one way or another, there goes the day. Well. We’ll see. But for today anyway I will try to take it a little easy. Especially since this weekend is going to be full, first of all of driving (to pick L back up) and then it is the 4^th and Mom will be here which is stressful. And then of course the next day is more driving as I must bring her back home. So Sat through Tues will be pretty shot. And oh boy, the weekend after that is the Crafts on the Common fair. I guess it would make sense to get things ready for that. Like trying to put together kits that I keep thinking of. Hmmm.

                The sun room is looking very nice. All cleaned out and vacuumed. In fact, both K and G commented on how nice it looks. Kind of interesting that a clean sunroom is one of the few things that gets me nice compliments. And what does it even matter to them, they do not use it? On the other hand, if I make a hat/scarf/mittens/fancy skein of yarn, I get no compliments. I guess if what I want is familial regard, I should spend my time cleaning instead of making stuff. Familial regard is nice, but not worth it. Maybe it is just that they are so used to seeing lots of made things, and not at all used to seeing places cleaned up. Anyway, I spent all yesterday and Monday sorting through everything. I managed to come up with a couple of fleeces – one alpaca and one fine black wool – that I do not want. A friend says she’ll take the alpaca, I may bring the wool to spinning. The other option would be to send it off for processing. It has quite a bit of VM in it, so trying to work with it myself is just not worth while. Maybe I’ll look into the commercial processing option, which means I should ask some of the spinning groups about good processors. My cleaning also made it very clear that one thing I do NOT need for a very long time is any new fiber. I think I could spin what I have for about 5 years or more before I used it all. And I should not buy roving if I teach any more classes (“if” since J-Term has been abolished; but I’ve been thinking about teaching a class through Leisure Services, it just means getting an application in by Feb if I want to do that in the summer). Instead I should card up some of the nice Romney that I have. I find it kind of coarse for the spinning I like to do these days, but for beginners it is perfect. I also have quite a bit of rather coarse stuff that I ought to spin up for L to use, since she likes the more natural wool stuff, colored is best, and doesn’t mind if it is coarse. She just doesn’t want all the angora in there.

                I think I will meditate, eat yogurt for breakfast (I think maybe I will stick with yogurt all day, which means I had probably best make some more), do some stretches, but not run this morning. Then I will work on the gray angora, finish that up, and maybe even start spinning the green stuff that is all carded and ready. Oh, the other thing I discovered is that I have quite a bit of stuff that is already carded and ready to spin. And tons of dyed stuff waiting to get blended. So at least for a while this summer I think I will not do any dyeing. Maybe later in August.

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