Spinning and Rugs

8 am

                SOLSTICE TODAY! This is a year that I am really grateful that as of now the days will gradually be getting longer. Not sure why but the darkness has been getting to me this year. Tomorrow neighbors across the street are having a solstice party, so that should be reasonably fun. And tonight K and I are going to Johnny’s for supper.

                I am not going in today. Met with the prof yesterday and she liked my suggestions for changing the labs. I wrote the ideas up, now I still have plenty to do in terms of organizing the things I wrote for lab prep and ordering, and all the grading stuff. And the room itself is in chaos, so that will take up most of my January time. I swear this year I will tell the others to just decide which days we teach and tell me. Keep me out of it, she and the others can decide. I refuse to be part of hours of discussion about it as happened last year.

                It is a very dull dreary day today. Not sure if it is cold enough that I will need to bring waters out. It doesn’t look it. I’ll do that soon. Yesterday I came home early and spun up another 3 ounces, that needs to be plied today. And maybe I’ll even start the next 3 ounces of the “black” angora. Then I can put together another bunch like that to build the skeins of angora back up. I am thinking I will set the table back up downstairs so I can card, as I did last year. Of course it means moving some stuff as the futon is set up down there. Or I could put it with the loom and move some of the boxes of fabric. I finished another wool rug; the idea was to finish so that a friend could come over and weave one out of fabric she’s had sitting around. So I don’t want to start another until I find out where she is at. It would be nice in January to finish all the rugs and take them off. It will, I am afraid, barely make a dent in the fabric, even though I went through it when we moved it from the other garage and got rid of a lot. I suppose I’ll have to go through it again. Put together bits that I will use for rugs and get rid of the rest. So anyway, I could set the table up there.

                I suppose the other thing I had better do would be to find someone who can do the ceilings downstairs. Because any kind of setting things up down there awaits getting that done. And I am realizing that really we will never do it ourselves. It is too complicated of a job. I suppose I could tackle it, but you know what, I don’t want to. So there. I would rather make things and get ready for fairs in the spring/summer. Fiber Twist which is called something else will be in April this year. I could look into the NH fair, and I definitely should get myself into the NE fiber festival at the big E. I wish there were more in the summer. I will do the Big Bro Big Sis one, but I will not do the Family Center one. And I think I will see if I can get into the Garlic Festival fair. So really, I’ll just have to make stuff all summer.

                Ok. Time to get dressed and feed buns

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