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#86 companionship

Up early...knitting because all cats are occupied. 

Either sleeping, playing, watching, exploring or eating.

(Noticing how every different way of folding creates something new.)

Widget is trying hard to figure out how to interact.

Chase is good.

Swatting is good (especially from different levels). 

Take down is bad when it's Widget versus one of the boys.

Surprising Widget is bad...

(Recently made new pillow cases. Eventually I may dye these in indigo...the vat definitely needs to be brought inside.)

Last night, thinking the boys weren't ready to be out during the night, I put them in the bathroom.  An hour later Widget's growling woke me up. 

Two kittens on the prowl.

Companionship is good.

# 77 do things that bring joy

Begin the day with a cup of coffee, peach pound cake, knitting, some reading and listening (interview with Takayuki Ishii about indigo!).

Learn something new: the original definition of a blue moon is a 4th full moon in a season.  Typically there are 3 per season. 

Go walk along the bay and watch a flock of geese, a tug boat come in across the bay, the light on the water and the clouds.

Think about blue.

Go home & take a short nap.

After lunch start a new fermentation vat:

And then work in the garden.

A few onions, a few potatoes.

It was a good day. 

#62 purl on

#59 summer knitting

Cotton dish cloth.

#54 keep going (still going)

Still working on the insomnia blanket as well.

This morning at 3:30 AM.

I have always found peace in repetition, always been amazed at how something small can grow and become larger.

today's work

Pulled weeds.

Planted squash and beans.

Cut paths in the grass so I could get where I needed to go.

The madder made it through the winter.

It looks so much like sweet woodruff that I suspect it would get lost if it was planted in the ground.

There was asparagus and green garlic to pick for dinner. 

It was added to bacon, cheese and pasta.

And blanket making on the porch in the sunshine.

tune up

While waiting in my car for my second vaccine...

I think...this is how I "tune" myself.

Knitting.

simple

It felt good to hold the warm bowl in my hand.

(Carrot soup:  olive oil, onion, carrots, water, salt, rosemary, thyme)

It felt good to work on the blanket, purl, purl, purl, turn, purl on...

Sometimes, many times I think, we make things too complicated.

At least I do.

challenges

Being able to knit or hand stitch is challenging right now...

Working very hard on Widget not seeing my hand as something to attack.

A towel is helpful.

Lots of attention to wear her out so that she takes a break.

And then some knitting.

This is morning it really looks like waves on the sea.

winter

The thing about winter

(garlic is growing very well)

is that it dances on the edge of spring.

(Primroses from the store, but the ones previously planted are about to bloom too.)

And for me, becomes more hopeful than fall...which is all about storms.

The yarn doesn't felt so it won't go into the insomnia blanket,

maybe there is enough for a sweater?