6:40 am
The end
of my blissful week. Sigh. Today I must pack everything up and head back – we
need to leave by 2 to stop by Cummington on the way and get back by 4 so that I
can get up to book club at the Bookmill at 5, then back for tutoring at 7:30.
And thus far no one but me has read the book.
Another sigh.
G
arrived yesterday, so the day went very differently from what had been my
pattern. We went for a walk up into the woods – so I could tell her about the
plants which of course was tons of fun. She took plant taxonomy at WW so now
knows a lot, but of course learned the plants in NC many of which are the same,
but some are different. I told her there would not be many woodland flowers
still blooming, and what did she find as soon as we entered the woods, but a
lady’s slipper! I had walked right by it the other day! We had a really nice
walk, and I felt great being the resident “expert.” Then I did manage to get in
more carding while she took a long nap. At 4:30 I decided to go for the
requisite bike ride and we decided I would do the long way round, then go into
N Adams, and she would meet me there for supper. We ended up at a new Sushi
place which was pretty good. I ended up w a belly ache – I suppose from such a
change to my recent eating pattern. But we had a good visit, talked a lot
(another big change in my week!). Once we got home, sat on the porch to watch
the sun set, I was pooped and just plain want to bed. I think she stayed up and
made a fire. It was freezing here all day. Most of the day I wore my long
underwear, a pair of lined jeans and a pair of regular jeans over the top. Pretty sad.
As for
the carding I did: I first carded up some pink angora. It was really clumpy, I
think it may have felted some in the dyeing. So it took a long time to pull it
apart and attempt to card. The idea is to spin it alone, then ply it with a
strand of some purplish stuff, I think it is the dorset from long ago. We’ll
see how it spins up. I suppose I could instead blend it with the dorset, that
would end up purple with big pink blobs. Not too bad. Then I started in on some
grey stuff. It is a blend of a lot of scraps from the scrap box. I divided it
all, now I must do the blending. Not sure if I should just spin as is, or,
which was my original idea, use it as the base for a fiber sandwich kind of
thing. That might involve carding another color, then adding bits. Not sure
I’ll have time to do all that today. Well, truth is I will not. And it is kind
of nice to have some just plain grey yarn available to go with other things. So
maybe today I will try to finish the blending part, and leave it at that. I
sure do have a LOT of stuff now ready to spin! Way more than I will be able to
get through this summer. Another sigh…. Especially with those three big lists
that I transferred fri….
So I
guess I’ll get up and going. Bed is the only warm place so it is very nice to
lie here. Don’t know if it will warm up at all today. I will miss the peace and
quiet, the birds, especially the space to spread out. K is off work tomorrow so
we will go for a ride into Northampton. Maybe there is something we can do
there. I suppose we’ll end up eating some where. It has been really nice here
just eating when I want to and only what I want. And what I end up doing is
eating bfast, midmorning snack, then a pretty big lunch around 2-30, and just a
snack for supper. But at home I kind of have to fix the big supper for K when
he gets home. Time to get up!
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