bee creative

holding things together

1. Everything's okay (that's for Mom).
2. It's been a very long week.
3. Always thankful for a knitting or stitching project, it's space to breath.
4. Phrase most often said this week: "If you want me to remember this, write it down."
5. Lists help immensely when things get busy.
6. The best thing about an on-line conference is being able to stay in pajamas and knit or sew during the presentation without feeling guilty.
7. I am grateful the "murder" hornets weren't found in my backyard. Or next door. Or within 5 miles of me. Bad enough they are in the same county.  Doubt it will effect the property values much though.
8. "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" is absolutely going on the "GOOD Enough COVID 19" quilt. So is "deep breath."
9. The sauerkraut isn't growing any mold and is bubbling away nicely.
10. It's been a very long week.  Oops, I already said that...

prepare

1. Drying Calendula on top of the dehydrator before adding it to oil for salve making. A little sage too.

2. Chopping carrots to put in the dehydrator.

3. Step one of sauerkraut. 

not quite the "to-do" list

There was a lot of knitting this weekend, tangled yarn, tangled thoughts, chickadees, and soup. Also a couple naps.

Squash + onions + broth + pumpkin seeds toasted in olive oil + salt and pepper

reflecting

This morning, while journaling, I wrote, "If I added a finger to my hand I'd be able to count on one hand the places I've been since March."

It's not quite true, the count was eight when I really started considering.

Still, eight places in 6 months.

Today I spent a very wonderful few hours at my brother's, one of the eight places. 

(The other places: work, the grocery store, the farm store/pet store, the farm stand near work, buying a car, and getting a hair cut.)

It couldn't have been a more beautiful day.

I've had this fabric in my stash for a couple months.

There was no resisting. 

It will be the perfect fabric for the other side of my "Good Enough" quilt which I've renamed "GOOD enough COVID 19."

I keep making little paper boats and calling them life boats....

 

#114 why blog?

It is:

activism

protest

self publishing

memoir

how to

a letter to friends and families

a letter to pen pals

community

a journal

education

a platform to share what we make

a way to make our world bigger

a way to make our world smaller

documenting history

an expression of love

Would you add anything?

 

 

 

 

 

#110 unfinished thoughts

Another scrappy tank. 

Bottom made from a table cloth with stain. 

Heading for an onion skin dye bath.

I wasn't paying attention.

I felt bad.

Consistently getting good results with the sourdough.

It's been on the to do list forever, fixing the gate. 

I think I am going to weave twine through the slates to hold it together better. 

Pasta + garbanzo beans + veggies from Mom and Dad + veggies from my garden + veggies from a CSA. 

*

None of these are from today...today was not quite as planned.

Yesterday someone told me on the way home that my break lights were out, so that had to be taken care of.

I started reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood and spent over two hours pondering the beauty of well crafted sentences. 

 

#78 enough

This weekend I spent some time looking back over the last 77 posts.

Thinking about enough.

Enough time.

Enough resources.

Letting things be good enough.

(After 7 or 8 dips this is blue enough)

Enough as in "all done".

(Hazel says "Enough, time to cuddle.")

 

What is enough to keep children safe? To keep each other safe?

So much depends on...

Enough.

 

#26 good

It's a good day for something sort of blue.

A good week for bread salad (with blue cheese).

And a good year for pears.

Against a blue wall.

#25 trees

Today I had extra time in the garden.

So I cut down a tree. 

It's been on the "to-do" list for awhile (too close to the house).

Too long really. 

Years.

The lilac just needs a little trimming once it's done blooming.

They are more beautiful than they ever have been.

#23 to post or not to post

_{A random stream of (mostly) unedited thoughts...}

_{I suppose that as a child I drew boats as much as houses. Children draw what they see and experience.  What they dream about.} 

_{Are adults any different? I still like to draw boats. This is layer upon layer of doodling and painting, of filters that alter how the layers blend.}

_Play.

_{The playing is always the easy part; it's whether to share, or how to share, or why to share that is the hard question.}

_{What is "good enough" to share and does that matter? (That's not a plea for reassurance by the way).  It's a question I keep pondering and wondering about. Mostly humans are social.  Sharing to feel a part of a community? Sharing to communicate?}

_{Some questions always have slippery answers.  Especially now, answers can be elusive, layered.} 

_{I like () because it is often the thought beneath the thought, another layer.}

_{To share, or not to share, that is the question}

_{("to be or not to be" Shakespeare).}