8 am
Nearly through
week 2 of Living Left-Armed. Actually I lie, since I am even now using both
hands to type. Though I cannot use my arm, that is true. Just small bits with
my hand. Like peeling carrots which I did yesterday. And buttering toast, one
of the things I found hardest one-handed.
Our little
wild bunny is back. She’s been around all summer, appearing in the yard and
seemingly completely unconcerned with us. Then a few days ago she disappeared. Of
course I feared the worst, after all she is a wild rabbit. I figured someone
had got her – fox, hawk, coyote, even a cat. But then she came back over from the
neighbor’s yard and here she is again. And I realized that she spends a lot of
time sitting in the top of the compost bin. How odd. I wonder if she is making
a nest there. Well I guess I won’t turn the compost anytime soon, so that is
fine.
We went
for a “hike” yesterday. Really just a glorified walk along an old rr bed that
has become a hiking trail along the Deerfield River. Part of what they hope to
be a trail from Deerfield to N Adams following the old route used by Native
Americans. We went about 3 miles there and back and wow it was amazing how hard
it was after 2 weeks of pretty much no activity. Odd how quickly that can
happen. I need to either try myself, or get K to move the stationary bike out
so I can get my butt on it a few times a day. I figure that is much less
jostling than running would be.
Finished
His Dark Materials trilogy (Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber
Spyglass). It was really good and just the thing for being stuck sitting
about. Now I’ll read Go Tell It On The
Mountain for book club, and I’ll probably read other things by James
Baldwin. Right now I am listening to a book called Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. It is quite odd. Things keep
repeating, which for a while was ok because the repetitions were short, but now
it is like an entire chapter or even two that is an exact repeat from the
previous. I assume at some point they will diverge, but not yet. Nice trick. Certainly
makes for a longer book without too much effort….
I have
been spending a lot of what limited energy I have on cooking. Familiar story. But
I do need to do something with all these share vegetables. Yesterday I made a
very nice summer soup. And even then I did not use all the squash. And now I have
more! So for supper I will make stuffed zucchini. I have some ground cooked
rabbit, I will combine that with onions, cheese, some left-over rice, an egg…. and
stuff the zukes and bake them. I will do it all fairly soon so that the house
can lose that oven heat before K gets home. He absolutely hates coming home to
a hot oven. Though today is more muggy than absolutely hot.
Besides
the stuffed zukes this am, I must start back in to tackle the heaps of papers
on the table and my desk. And then I must tackle entering things in Quicken and
reconciling and all that. Oh dear. I THINK taxes are all set, though I must pay
Mom’s bill.
On a nicer
note, I have discovered that I can comb. I set up my rigid two-layered combs
and am (very slowly) going through a fine black fleece. It is coming out quite
lovely and will be a dream to spin. I think I will eventually spin it and ply
with angora. Eventually. When I can spin. I can also knit, though it is awkward
enough that it is kind of frustrating. Still (slowly) working on the
wrist-warmers of the pink stuff that I started before the surgery. Getting there.
And now I think I will brew a pot of tea.
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