6:30 am
It is
lovely outside right now, hot in the house. It rained steadily all night which
is good since my gardens were getting dry. I must plant the one I added compost
to with more alfalfa. And I should go ahead and put some sunflowers in there
just for kicks. One is coming up on its own. But the rest is coming up to weeds
which I don’t want. And now there is the patch in front of the relocated cages.
Eventually I will build more raised beds but meanwhile I should throw in some
basil and cilantro. Things that are nice to have and don’t keep that well from a
share picking.
Yesterday
felt busy though I did not accomplish a whole lot. I did finish a bobbin (1 ½ oz)
of the pink spinning. Now I can ply, then there are 2 more bags of 3 oz each. And
I sewed up 3 hats, 2 of which I knit while on the trip (mostly in the car rides
to and from DC). I ripped out the wrist-warmers I started bc they really are
too small. I will try larger needles as they were too tight. They are will the
second ball of the green fiber sandwich stuff so it is pretty darn thick and
heavy. We’ll see how they are. I will start them again, but may decide not to
use the yarn for that. I also had a dr appt., then finally biked up to Simple
Gifts farm to grind wheat. Silly me – the ground stuff takes up much more room
than the unground, so I could not do it all and still fit it on the bike. Anyway
I did some and can now start a bread – IF the sourdough revives, it did not
look great yesterday.
Interesting
that my shoulder hurt a fair bit last night in bed. I assume that is from the
spinning. I will keep it up and see how it feels and that can be part of what I
talk to the surgeon about when I see him next week. It feels ok now, though
typing is a bit annoying to it.
I need
to figure out supper for tonight, and I should do that for the rest of the week
while I am at it. For last night I cooked some of the Freekeh wheat. It cooked
really easily – just soaked in boiling water. But the salad came out kind of
dull and bland. I’ll have to look up some actual recipes. Today I think I will
cook some black beans to go with the tortillas I got from the Mi Tierra folks. One
crucial thing I am missing is cheese. I will probably need to bike later today
to pick up the car, so I can get some then. Amazingly enough I am out of rabbit
meat. The 2 fawn babies left from Cinnabun’s first litter are big enough,
though I plan to keep one. And I need to photograph all the babies so I can
post ads for them and see if I get any response. I only sold 4 at the fair this
year. I actually had a few email requests – for a bunny and for fiber that I need
to respond to. Ugh a lot of emails need to be responded to today. And a lot of
other stuff that I did not do at all yesterday. I read several of the James
Baldwin stories and now I have As I Lay
Dying so I have started that. It is pretty short. And then there is the Why Read Moby Dick book that I started
and of course will then need to actually re-read MB after I finish that. Bookclub
got put off last month so I did not miss Dying
and so must read that for mid-July. Then Go
Tell it on the Mountain for August. I don’t remember what is after that.
Probably
the best part of the day yesterday was when G offered to drive to meet K with
the car to drop it at Ford. It gave me a sudden unexpected whole free 45
minutes! I spent most of it meditating which I would not have done. Not that it
went that well, I have been quite distracted in meditation, probably comes from
not being regular enough. But I found my watch (!) in the washed clothes….and I
will meditate right now as soon as I finish this.
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