7 am
Middle of
August. Oh dear. I have this week, or most of it – Friday I must leave to drive
to Maine, then back late Saturday. And Thursday night there is the meeting in
Plainfield of fiber folk. Next week L will be here. I have a dentist
appointment, must drive to Framingham to pick up a friend on Thursday, and want
to do a Wed Night Dinner of Butt Roast which will take all day to prepare. I
did manage to find the Physio lab manual in my MHC network space (duh, been
there all along) so I can look up what parts of the text they read and check
those out. And I have realized that, along with all the ToDos not yet done, I must
add that I really have to clean up under the bunny cages and deal with compost.
I guess I’ll need to turn the piles I have – best would be to cobble together
another space with more of those flat wooden things whose name I can’t think of
right now – pallets…. Then turn the old piles into that so I combine them, then
make a new pile. That would leave an empty one for turning into.
I spent
most of the weekend (at least it feels that way) at the kitchen sink and stove.
Yesterday I prepared and dried 2 more eggplants. This time I blanched them. It would
be good to try soaking/cooking both types. I assume the blanched ones will cook
more easily. They sure took a lot longer to dry because they were so wet after
steaming and cooling. I suppose I could try squeezing them dry with paper
towels. I still have several squash and more eggplant. Not to mention whatever G
will bring home from the share today.
I’d
really like to spin more of the fawn today. Oh, I should add that I made a
really good pâté of liver, onions, eggplant. And I cooked down the stew from
Saturday and added some wine. It came out very tasty. Back to the angora. I would
like to spin more fawn and listen to the rest of the book on cd. It is
reminding me a lot of a friend, except in the book it is all so much worse and
the parents are so blind and stupid. But now I am of course caught up in it so I
want to get through the rest. See whatever happens.
Met with workshop
folks yesterday morning at Raos. That was good. We went over a lot of workshop
stuff, and I ought to write it up as a summary. Then I did all the stuff
described above, and left at 4 (well, closer to 4:30 actually) to walk to the
mall to Panera’s for book club. Nearly everyone was there, miraculously! Our next
book is Gabriella Clove and Cinnamon which should be enjoyable. Yesterday I did
not run since I figured I would be doing all that walking. What about today…..
oh yuck I suppose I “should “ run. While walking along the bike trail I got it
in my head that, the same way I was using my run to pick up trash along East
Hadley rd, I could, while walking the bike trail, rip up invasives. But as I got
closer to the mall, the bittersweet was completely overwhelming. Good lord, it
would take all day to walk that part of the trail and pull up all the
bittersweet. And that would only be a tiny swatch while the plants go far
deeper. Discouraging.
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