8 am
At the farm. Depressed. Oh brother. And really bad case of
Butt Burn which I imagine is due to eating apples yesterday. I in fact spent
the entire day yesterday cooking. Why? I must wonder? And I wonder why this
version of Word on K’s computer is making such a narrow document. Perhaps it
will look normal on the blog page. Perhaps not.
There are
lots of people here at the farm, and I am actually finding it more stressful
than fun. Well I shouldn’t really say that, there have been fun moments. Mostly
around the baby monkey on a pig video that my students showed me on Wednesday.
I have also done some knitting. Mostly on Mom’s blanket that she wants to
finish for my niece but has not worked on for about 4 years. She can still do
straight knitting, but following a pattern is too hard. She mostly likes just
listening to her books on tape. She used to knit while listening, but now she
just listens. Hmmm. I wonder if that will be me in 30 years. Well I guess it
could be worse. I also managed to knit up a few more tiny rabbit ideas. These
are just the cylinder with ears idea. They are cute and very tiny but still
kind of a pain to make.
We need to
leave this morning because K has a meeting around noon and I set up to meet re MA
Sheep & Woolcraft in Goshen.
I might need to change that some since K has to be there earlier than I
thought.
I can’t
believe I spent the entire day yesterday, which was gorgeous after weeks of
rain then freezing cold, inside cooking. I didn’t go up to the woods even for a
few minutes. I was thinking after I made the pies that I could let them bake
then go up before I started making the soup, but then my sister & husband
showed up, and I felt like I could not then just disappear. And so by the time
we visited and it might have been reasonable to go up, it was time to make the
soup. Isn’t like that should take so long, but with so many people, it means
that many carrots to peel and cut up, that much chicken to cut up (I put them
in the pot to boil Fri night and had cooled the stock and chickens overnight, I
just had to cut it all up). It turned out fine, I was worried that there
wouldn’t be enough and there was plenty left over.
Oh, more
bad news: I heard back from the woman at the Hartsbrook school fair, and she
said people complained last year about the mothball smell from my booth. I feel
terrible about it. Not that it comes as a big surprise. I have had a few other
issues with mothball smell. Now I just have to figure out what to do about it.
I don’t think they are going to offer me an inside space at the fair, they
might let me set up outside, which will be freezing and miserable. Still I will
take it if offered, and hope that I could move back inside some day. I feel
chastised, though rightly so. I think I will still use mothballs for the
unwashed fleeces, but take them out of the bins for the skeins and finished
stuff. I’ll need to air it all out over the next several weeks, which will be a
pain. I hope we have some sunny weekends. Then I need to find some other smelly
stuff that can deter moths – like lavender, or better yet, cedar.
I’m
actually glad we are leaving today. It will be better to be home. I need to
grade the Thurs lab graphs, and I would like to do some spinning. I brought the
wheel with me, but I’ve just been knitting, it is easier. And maybe I can play
more with the camera set up that I put in the basement. If I can just leave it
set up, it will be not too bad to throw something in there and take a photo. I
also need to play with the camera and figure out how to use it better (how to
adjust things).
There was
talk about having a farm meeting this morning. Yuck. There is not much that any
of us will say except we need more money and there are all these and such jobs
to do and who is going to do them? I need to focus on Mom’s finances and until
I get that under control I can’t take on anything else.
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