My Father and Mother just celebrated their 77th birthdays... their birthdays are just one week apart. Yesterday you will recall that I had planned on going on a picnic. X that one... Pops (that's my father... ) called and invited us to go to their house for cheese cake which he had bought for my mother's birthday and had forgotten about. So we ended up there instead. It turned out to be a nice diversion actually. Then Daughter #2 and I came home to watch movies... we've been doing movie marathons each night. Sometime watching three in the run of an evening. Mostly they are movies that are at least a few years old. I really want to go out on the deck but the wind dies down at night and out come the mosquitoes... that's where the new sun room comes in handy. We open all the windows in there and sit back in comfort and enjoy the night breezes without the irritation of mosquitoes. It's great... I really think that Teapot and I should look into seriously building a screened porch and maybe make it a little more elaborate than I was first thinking. The west side of the house has been beckoning to us for several years. I keep thinking that we should build a deck out there but it suddenly occurred to me that it would be a great spot for our screened porch. We could use clear plastic for the roof.... like the kind that you use for green houses... you know that corrugated stuff. Then have screens that are removable in winter. Or we could get a little more elaborate and make it more fall and spring proof. We could use sensible glass for the roof and turn it into a real room with a wood stove and sliding glass doors everywhere. Mind you I could be just dreaming. I'm sure it would cost an arm and a leg. Teapot hates them but I love house renovations.... it means something new is happening.... and a change in your location is like going on holiday.
So there was no picnic...
Teapot will be home tomorrow... they are traveling today. they are supposed to be in Grand Prairie tonight which is like a hop skip and a jump away... I might even actually get to talk to him. All the time he has been away he has been where there is no cell phone coverage, and getting to use the pay phone is a fight against all of those JCRs who are calling home. I've missed talking to him. Daughter #1 is with him and I will be glad to see her too. It seems like they have been gone a very long time.
All day yesterday... I spun. Something I haven't done for a while. I've been knitting all along... and I'm sorry to say that I still don't have my shrug finished for the 150 hour project.... I ran out of black wool 12 rows from the end. So now I'm waiting for Rit Dye so that I can finish dyeing the last skein that I have... meanwhile I have started on the 50 hour project for level 5. I am making a table cloth out of Ramie and linen. I started spinning the Ramie yesterday. So far so good. I am happy with the spinning and Ramie is not so bad.... I know I know... you're all laughing that I would choose linen after the hullabaloo I made last year about hating flax.... but I'm not spinning line... I'm spinning tow and there's all the difference in the world. I will spin Ramie which is white and lustrous and weave it on my 6 inch pin looms and then I will spin linen and use it to join the blocks together. It will be a picture of beauty as the crisp white of the ramie and the ecru of the linen come together.... I'm excited!
So I just had my juice and toast and I'm off to spin Ramie...
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Seems we are both hibernating this summer. I've spent a total of 5 coffee breaks outside on our wee deck and was chased in by mosquitos shortly after taking a seat. Just about cooked in the shop n' swap shed with having to keep the door shut. Then some wonderful person dropped off a fan in the share shed:) Nice to keep the door closed and have only the wind in my face. cj
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