This morning it is quite nice and a little cool. Sometime overnight there must have been a deluge. The deck is wet again which is awesome since, with the rain we had the other day, and this little soaking, we might start to see the grass begin to grow again. I actually do see a little green among the brown and gold. Honestly though, I do think that it will take several days of rain to bring back the grass from the brink of extinction. Besides, it is too late for the farmers and their hay crops for this year.
But sitting here this morning with the freshness of the new wet ground surrounding me is feeling pretty darn good.
Tomorrow is the beginning of the retreat that I host each summer. I will be preparing dye solutions today and cleaning house. The dye solutions shouldn't take very long and I will do that out on the deck. The cleaning house will take longer. Suffice it to say that while I was away in Olds not a whole lot was done to keep the house relatively nice. Then, when I returned, I had spinning and level 3 on my mind, not to mention other things. The heat also zaps me of wanting to do anything regarding house keeping (I actually think watching a kindergartner pick his nose would be more pleasurable than housework). All that has been done here for the last few weeks is the bare essentials, and so today, I will have to pay the piper and actually make it look like a care how clean my floors are and whether the toilet seat is touchable!
Actually I started cleaning last night, and started with the front sunroom. For weeks Teapot has been working on transferring over all the files on one computer to our new computer and he has basically not wanted me to touch anything.... oh well, that's out the window now because I moved both of the computers on to a new desk and unplugged the whole works of it..... : } Still, it needed to be done because there was a terrible amount of dust and old bills that needed sorting.
Then there is the dining room table which now has a whole lot of stuff from Olds sitting on it. I want to go through all of that stuff and put away the stuff that I didn't get to a couple of weeks ago. In the process, I went through a few other things too. I fished out the rug that I was hooking last summer and haven't had time to work on recently and thought about doing some this weekend. I do love to go through my stash because I find all kinds of things that I had forgotten about. I had originally wanted to finish the rug before I went to Olds this year but rug hooking is not in the forefront of my mind. While I do enjoy hooking rugs, and hope to finsh more than just this one, I know it will never consume every waking hour the way spinning does. It just is something pleasant to do with my time.... (what time you ask?... you know, the reams of time that I have after everything else is done)! I have even decided to take the big 7 foot tri loom out and try to get a few picks done each day like I did last year. It was progressing quite nicely when I did that and then the big j.c. got in the way of that too. And then there is the quilt that I am working on for my sponsored child in Peru... it is a quilt that I hand stitched and put together and all it needs is the backing and quilting done. It would be nice to finish it this year.
Actually, I am beginning to understand why Teapot distracts me every time I start to go through my stash... I'm sure it's because out come all the old projects that haven't been finished and need to be done-something-with and they sit around having very-little-done until such time as I get sick of looking at them and then they get put away again. Well, I am making an online pact..... I am pledging a little time every day to work on these projects and by the time I go to Olds next year I have to have at least two of these projects done and have the third one partially finished..... and it can't get in the way of finishing my homework.... that's always the priority.... yeah... so there!!.... (am I crazy?!!!)
Ok so a few minutes was needed there to restart my heart with the plug from the computer..... and now I think I'll go call the doc and let him know that I am ready for that lobotomy.
Deep breathing.... deep breathing.... ok, I can do this right? Finish two of three projects and make inroads into the third one.... right.... it's not unachievable... right?!!!!! Gee, I was having a lovely morning until I opened my brute sized mouth..... oh well, what's life without a few challenges...... " I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."
Well, if I am going to do this then I had better get to it.... no time like the present to put your money where your mouth is..... any bets?!!!!
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