Very short weekend

[altivo]

Instead of a "long" weekend, it was a short one. One day! Still, anything that spares me having to work that late shift is welcome, even sickness sometimes (though usually I don't call in sick on Wednesday because it means someone else has to cover for me.) Wednesday has now been the worst day of my week for nearly five years, where Mondays used to be the one I hated in the past.

We did mostly nothing. I fiddled with the water softener, which has to be messed with frequently to keep it running properly. I've gotten used to the requirement, though I don't know why it should be that way.

When the sun finally came out in the afternoon, I did put Tess out for a couple of hours. As is now normal, she was glad to go out and equally glad to come back in. The insects are really bothersome, even though I spray her with repellent and cover her face with a flymask. We had an inch of rain last night, but everything has become so dry already that the water just disappeared. No puddles, and no flush of sudden growth the way it was last summer every time it rained. Black raspberries are ripe, hickory trees are already dropping a few nuts. Blackberries and blueberries will ripen soon.

Spent some time working on a weaving design, and hope to be warping the loom by the weekend. Nothing fancy, probably just some kitchen towels. But the guild is having a challenge this year for something themed on the number 10, for the 10th anniversary of our autumn show, and I want to do a piece for it. I fiddled with some name drafts using words like "decimus" and "tenyears" but wasn't that excited by the results, so now I'm looking at ideas involving ten thread repeats or ten variations on an idea.

Comments

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many of the cloths and fabrics in your home have been made by you?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not as many as I'd like. That's mostly because I tend to give away the things I make rather than keep them for myself. At the moment we have placemats we use on the dining table regularly, some kitchen towels that have been in use for (would you believe) 19 years and are due for a replacement, and a winter scarf or two that were handwoven. There's more knitting than weaving that manages to stick around: sweaters, socks, stuff like that.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Will there be any berry pie or blueberry muffin samples for a certain kittycat?

*tries to look all kitten cute and hopeful...which is kind of difficult when you're obviously not a kitten and rather scraggy*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

If the weather holds, we should have those and more.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

*sits in a corner of the kitchen to wait*