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not finished

Over a foot.

There has been snow on the ground for a week now.  It's warming but first there will be more snow, rain, snow, wind, snow, rain, freezing...

The garden will be changed when the snow is all gone.

The rosemary had blossoms on it last week.

Coffee filters ready to cut and then spin into yarn.

Wintering by Katherine May recently finished but not since I will go back and reread. It's a beautiful book. 

I don't think we ever really "finish" books.

The Overstory by Richard Powers started as a library book, purchased because I had to turn it back in before being able to read more than the first few pages. I am about a 1/4 of the way in.  Thanks Dee for giving me a nudge to make it next.  There are sentences, passages that I keep rereading. 

Ursula K. Le Guin's collection of essays (a collection of blog posts), No Time to Spare, is my current nonfiction choice.  I've been diving in and out of it for quite awhile.

White fabric, to sew with and to dye with. Possibilities.

From my journal this morning:

End of year. Thinking about unfinished. Thinking about books unfinished. Thinking about projects unfinished. Thinking about me…unfinished. The New Year is a construct made by humans, a date, a measure. It doesn’t really mean anything to time passing. It’s a way we (humans) try to impose control and organization.

To be continued...

 

cozy enough inside, outside not so much

Potato soup made with leftover mashed potatoes, dehydrated corn, peppers, kale, carrots, and herbs; a bit of cheddar cheese and milk.

The kittens think the snow is fascinating.

But still there must be a nap.

It's hard work being a kitten.

So many things to climb.

Like maybe a quilt suspended from the ceiling? 

They also scared the Merlin eating a bird on a branch (about 4 feet away from me!) outside the window.   I was able to watch it for about 15 minutes.

It's probably just fine that I couldn't get a really good picture.

  You might not want to look too close...

build your own story #2 (subtitle inside the snow globe)

 

stars and moons

Directions can be found here.

Drying coffee filters on the window so that I can try making coffee filter yarn.

Soon.

I am a builder of boats

I've made about 30 of them. 

Next week they will be filled with chocolate and branches and will sail away.

I have added what we called jelly fish and are now called jellies to my Peace and Plenty blanket. 

I really have two memories of them from childhood, dead blobs on the beach that needed to be avoided and tiny little white ones with something like an "x" on them. We would see around the docks, maybe baby moon jellies? 

That and it wasn't good when they were on the fishing lines...jellies can sting.

 

Some day I am going to go and watch the Jellies

 

 

build your own story #1

Flat bread (made with wheat flour), olive paste (olives + walnuts + a bit of olive oil) + oranges + cheese.

pieces of me

There was soup.

Homemade tomato base + tortellini + dehydrated kale, carrots, peppers and spices. A drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of cheese.

And stitching.

I loved Liz's idea of outlining a hand on a blanket she had made so am adding a set of hands to my "peace and plenty" blanket. It might need to hold a snow globe...

There is a tiny, tiny dusting of snow out there.

(Not altered just the reflection through the window.)

Imagine that.

this December

I thought about an "open house" again or a project that might span the month, but I am too scattered in my thinking right now for much of anything. 

I want to focus on the joyful things of December, the things that are celebrations, not habits. 

I am not exactly sure how that will show up or when.

I do know that decorations will have to be sturdy.  Any surface the kittens can reach is considered part of the playground...

(This is 3 layers + two filters)

Yesterday there was sunshine and this morning rain. 

Chance of snow off and on throughout the week.