8 am
Been remiss
in writing bc I’ve been so busy with my class. And to be honest I must have
been anxious all week bc I’ve have stomach aches. I feel pretty good this
morning, probably bc it is the last day. Makes me a little concerned that I will
feel sick as fall approaches and for a good part of the early fall as I get
accustomed to the new class I’ll be teaching in. I’ll manage, but it is
tiresome to feel sick all the time. The kids yesterday really enjoyed drum
carding, so we’ll do that again today, as well as more spinning (we’ll work with
the wheels again) and they wanted to make felted treasure bags. The felt balls
came out very well. The roving that I got from E is good for that, and the
roving they dyed early in the week worked well. They don’t want to do more
dyeing, so I brought that stuff home. It will certainly be a chore to haul
everything home today, I’ve accumulated a lot of stuff there. I think in
retrospect that I should have done stick weaving instead of using the cardboard
TP rolls. They are just harder to work with.
Tonight
we have plans to go to Hampshire Shakespeare – As You Like It. Never made it to
the kid version of 12th Night, it was raining. This time I do not
mind going inside if it rains. I may get tickets before or after class so that
we cannot bow out.
The new
tub tiles are almost done. It has been quite distracting all week between the
class and having these guys here doing the tile. After class today I will go to
Target or somewhere to get a new shower curtain and new bathmat for downstairs.
I put the blue curtain upstairs and I want to get something more on a pink side
to better match the new tile. Maybe someday we will even repaint the upper
walls so they are no longer blue. Some day.
Funny, I
talked to G last night (she wanted to go out for supper, so even though we had
already eaten I happily complied, and ate Mochi while she had tea rolls and
fried rice) about motivation. I told her how I find I must put myself into
situations that I might otherwise never get around to in order to do
interesting things. I was saying that I will be glad when the class is done. It
has gone well and I have enjoyed doing it to a certain extent, but it has also
been wearing, and of course, it has kept me from doing any of my own spinning. She
found that all odd and thought that I should do what I want. But I told her
that, if left completely to my own devises I would basically do nothing. Well,
that is not completely true. After all, at the farm I was definitely left to my
own devises, and I spent the entire time carding wool. I could pretty
effectively card and spin all my time away. But that does not really feel like “enough.”
Well, there are also lots of ToDos that I do anyway, like the
dishes/laundry/bills stuff. And there are all the huge list of ToDos that don’t
get done, that are part of stuff, like fixing bunny cages. They get done
eventually. I just feel that I must push myself a little and that requires
setting something up before-hand, like teaching this class, that will just come
up and then have to be done. I have scheduled to teach an adult class in the
fall. I hope that works out ok with the new class at work.
Maybe this
morning, after I do the dishes, I can do a bit of my own spinning before I must
leave. I am spinning up some grey angora that I will ply with the last 3 half-ounce
bits of the blue/green. And then TOMORROW I must wash all those skeins and hang
them out. And there will be a lot of
putting things away that will need to be done tomorrow.
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