8 am
Several
days of not writing. Why? I suppose because it seems pointless to write if all I
do is 1) complain and 2) state what I must do or what I have done. Dullsville. Last
week I pulled boxes of fabric out of the rental house garage, and along with
them I found a box of my old journals. All are now in the basement, and I did
start to go through the fabric (G chose an armful of shirts). I also could not
resist reading a bit. Well that is kind of depressing. Same old same old. I am
still who I was, same issues, same concerns, same voice. It is odd. I guess it
makes perfect sense, but it seems like something should have changed over 30
years. Odd to read what I wrote the summer after college and then to think
about everything that had not yet happened. Hadn’t met J, hadn’t met K, no L or
G. Kind of creepy. But still all I wrote about was feeling sad or dissatisfied,
or frustrated with how I did or did not get along with others. Or I wrote about
things I had to do or things I had done and feeling overwhelmed with it all. I never
was one to pursue especially lofty topics. And I suppose that will not change.
Right now
it is hard to concentrate because I am actually very hungry…… my plan is to
write, meditate, then eat. Which is sort of my usual routine, except as often
as not I don’t actually do it.
Bookclub
this evening. We read Foreign Bodies by Orzick which I did not like at all. Before
bc I will go to the KO festival presentation with L. It is an older (60’s, is
that “older”?) woman talking about sex. Sounds exciting, eh?
And so
what now to write about? What I will do today: before the play: I will finish
warping the loom. C and I did it, but for the stupid 4 strings in the middle
that got left out. So I measured those, and cut them and strung them through
the front thing, and tied them to the front beam thing (I can’t remember any of
the names for all those parts). I tied the rest of the strings on, now I am
going to wind it onto the front beam, then thread those 4 through the heddle
things, then rewind the whole thing back onto the rear. And try to keep the
tension even. Well, we’ll see how it all goes. And I may need help, but I don’t
really want to ask C bc I am doing it kind of weird and she won’t like that. Maybe
G can help with that part.
I amazingly
enough finished fixing the white cage. It was satisfying to cross that one off
the list. I tried drying a few skins the other day but they were drying very
oddly, and they were super greasy, so I washed one in detergent and tossed all
3 back in the tanning bath.
I put
some jewelweed into the solar dye bath. I think it has nicely colored the
water, now I need to find some wool to dye and mordant it. I will try that in
the solar bath, too. Ought to do that today.
Yesterday
was fun – G had asked me to show her how to do some things: make the new style
of bread, cook beans and make soup. So Fri evening we mixed the bread dough and
started the beans soaking. Yesterday we made the loaves and baked them, cooked the
beans, and made some soup. She had talked first about chicken soup, but then
said she wanted to use rabbit, so I ended up boning a bunch of rabbit which
took a while, then together we cooked stuff. I had her let the rabbit simmer
for a good long time, she is not at all fond of chewy meat, then she added the
other stuff. She said it was good. Today, a bit ToDo is that I must cut up and
freeze the rest of the rabbit. Joy.
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