Again Inspiration

 

7:45 am

                I am feeling decidedly uninspired today. Inspiration. What is it? What inspires me? Well, I was inspired last night to take a long walk with not even my own dog by the desire to do something for the girls. That will basically inspire me to all kinds of things. After all, it inspired me to drive all the way to Bar Harbor and back, not something I would normally be at all inspired to do. Last night, we went to hear G’s band concert. It was very nice (well, mostly the same music as for July 4) and we had a little picnic on the South Common. After, the girls were wanting to get together, but L had to do work on her room and stuff at home, G had to give this dog a long walk. So I offered to do the walk so that the girls could spend time together and do sister bonding. Was that not nice of me? The walk was fine, of course, and it got me some good exercise. The dog did not seem to want to go at first; I kind of dragged her up to the woods, which by then were getting quite dark. The way back was one big rush. She ran the whole way pulling at her leash. Then when we got back to her road, I made her go all the way around which she seemed fine with. She no longer tugged, but she still kept up a good pace, so much different from taking walks with Tigger which involve lots of me tugging and coaxing.

                So what will inspire me today? Actually it is very nice that everyone is off and busy. L may be home mid-day, though she will still be busy as she is trying to get ready for her wilderness trip. Another thing that inspires me

                *note – I just heard L come back from the store where she went to get more fruit to dehydrate. Just hearing her come in inspired me to immediately get on Craigslist to look for a laptop for her….       

                So what else inspires? As I’ve said before, getting things done, taking care of things, going through piles…. So it helps me if things are left out and are obviously “in the way” so that I am inspired to deal with them. Right now the small hutches are on their sides waiting for me to finish fixing the bottoms. I got pretty far with getting the bottom off the second one yesterday, then had to stop to make emergency picnic supper since the plan to get the church chicken barbeque fell through (they required reservations which we did not know). Now the tools are all still out, so I think I will be pretty inspired to finish. Yesterday I did more anti-moth cleaning. This time it was drawers, so I took everything out and cleaned the stuff and the drawers. And then….ready for it….I SORTED PLASTIC CONTAINER TOPS!!! Wooo Hooo. But very satisfying. The basic deal of figuring out which tops actually go with containers and throwing away the rest. How so many accumulate I do not know. How long has it been since I have done this??? Also do not know.

                Besides the cages, and continuing to look at computers on Craigslist, and doing more answering emails (and I’ll write up notes from our Fair Fiber Folk meeting, yesterday I wrote notes from the workshop meeting) I must also do a bunch of laundry stuff, and I hope I can spin more gray. 1 ½ ounces of singles to go then I can ply. And that will make 6 ounces, 3 more to go of the gray. That is satisfying.

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