Yesterday's Loveliness

7:20 am

                Funny how I really am in this morning pages habit. It’s a good one, if only I were as strongly in the morning running habit so that I would actually look forward to it. I didn’t run yesterday and I felt a bit guilty, but that is all. Not as if I missed it.

                Yesterday in general was lovely. I decided to really go with how I felt. I meditated morning AND afternoon, I ate precisely when I felt like it, I even took a small nap in the middle of the day. My belly felt and feels much better. And how did I end the day? With a double-dip ice cream cone, what kind of good idea does that sound like for someone with digestive issues? But it was ok and I felt fine all night. Of course I was not as stellarly “productive” as I might have been. I did lots of small stuff. I finished the gray angora – three small skeins spun, plied and wound off (they and the others need to be washed, dried, weighed and labeled). I did a little bit of research on places to stay and hike in NH when I (now, it looks like, we) are there this weekend (and let me add that that kind of online research can sure suck up the time!!). I did a tiny bit of research on where I could get the black fleece processed, which is what I might end up doing. I tried washing a bit of it, and it looked pretty good, but when it came out of the wash and was dried, it is absolutely full of chaff. I might try combing that, but the reality is that I find combing very tedious. And if I then want to blend it with angora, it would mean combing and THEN carding – very tedious indeed. And I did some bits of “finishing” work – mainly sewing ends into things that have been sitting around waiting for that. It seems the headbands I have been making lately end up with a lot of ends…  And I started to work on the hat I made for a friend a million years ago that stretched out and she can no longer wear. I decided to pick up the stitches on the edge – but only half of them because there are 106 (!), so I’ll pick up 54, maybe add a few, and knit a new band with about 60 on pretty big needles (she has a large head, so I’m hoping that will work). I knit it with some angora. Except now that I think of it, angora has no memory/stretch, so that might not work so well. Maybe I should use some angora/wool ply that is especially stretchy. I decided to wait until I have carded the lumpy brushed fawn angora that I have set out, ready to go, and use that. But now I am thinking I should make one skein of that plied with some nice springy Suffolk or Dorset. Well it will all be an adventure of sorts.

                I also talked to said friend for a while on the phone, and to my sis. She, unfortunately, has kidney stones and is waiting for them to pass. Like waiting for someone to cut off your finger. Like waiting to give birth, except with no nice baby at the end, just some stupid “stones” that I don’t suppose you even get to keep. Maybe she should ask for them and make earrings from them… what a gruesome thought!

                What about today? It would be very good to continue my “go with my body’s flow” technique, so I will try. I do have some “must do” kinds of things, like – call Julie about the rabbits and getting them registered, call Warren Wilson about what the next step is with the loan. I’m sure there are others that I can’t think of. And I suppose I should try the running again, though that I hardly “feel like” doing.

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