moth issues

8 am

                Still Fall Break! Woo Hooo! Meaning I do not have to go in to work today. Tomorrow I must go in for lecture, but no lab. Thurs I do have lab since we missed last week for Mountain Day. Then Fri things are back to normal, in that we will have lecture and lab conference. I think I will really need to stay on Wednesday to get things ready for lab next week. And for the weeks after, though I don’t think most of those will be too bad.

                Yesterday went pretty well. I wrote myself out a huge ToDo list and of course only got through a few of the items, but what can you do? I did manage to spin up one strand of the next skein of the blue stuff, so that is getting close to finished. I’ve been knitting up a nice sample with double knitting (angora inside). In two weeks I’ll be able to really check on sizes of niece and nephew’s hands and start the actual mittens. I’m feeling like I should also knit up a tiny angora hat for other niece’s baby. And one for OTHER niece, too.

                Seems like a huge chunk of yesterday went to “errands.” Isn’t that they way it goes? Well, we also stopped in town for lunch. Miss Saigon was closed, so we went to the Souper Bowl and it was pretty unexciting. Won’t go there again. But I managed to get a bunch of stuff returned, which is always satisfying, and I got a bunch of ingredients for herbal moth repellant which I will mix up today. I also put all my finished stuff out on the porch in the sun to air out. Once I add the herbal stuff, I imagine everything will smell pretty good. I should check other places in the sun room because I know there are mothballs in other boxes. I didn’t really air out the angora since it is all in plastic bags and I don’t want to put those in the sun as they will get condensed water in them. I could empty each one, air out the angora and then store them again. That would be tedious.

                What about today? Anything good? I will spin more blue, maybe I will even get to start some angora. Maybe… and this would be fun, I could do some carding/blending. I’ve been wanting to card up some sort of fiber blanket thing of really wacky stuff. I was thinking it would be fun to have something like that for the Hartsbrook fair, but I don’t know if I’ll be at that. I guess I should think positive and hope that even if I can’t be inside, they’ll let me have an outdoor space.

Oh, can’t remember if I wrote about this yesterday, who cares, I played with M’s ipad at the farm and I really liked it, and just think – I could get one of those for about $500 instead of $2000 for the Mac…… It seems like it really would do more or less what I need a computer to do. One can get an application for the mac writing program. Seems like the trickiest part is printing. But things can get emailed to another computer and printed that way easily enough. Oh dear. Kent needs to use the computer……

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