Well the dye retreat begins today. Blah ick ugh... the weather sucks. It is supposed to be rainy today and sunny tomorrow and Sunday.... I'm hopeful. The mosquitoes want to eat me and pester me and make life firmly miserable. There's recycling to do, and garbage to go to the dump... the lawn mower gave out and so we will be camping in our jungle lawn where killer mosquitoes lurk. The deck is in dire need of being cleaned up but I will do that this morning. The garbage will go to the dump since a good friend is working there and I will take a thermos of tea up and we will have a visit in the shack... there's quite a nice shelter/shack and you can see good stuff going into the share shed.... it's all good. I have to stop off at the Thrift store for some weaving shuttles that just came in. A quick visit to the doctor's office for a check up on the ankle... (which has moments when its better). And then I should be home for an afternoon of cleaning up my damn kitchen which is a crazy crater right now. I made an apple pie yesterday and just as I was about to clean up after making it and getting it in the oven the contractor who did our house renovation two years ago showed up... I had to leave with him to take him to Mom's and Dad's place because he's going to be doing some renovations to their bathroom.. we hope... So the kitchen was left a la mess... which I partially cleaned up last night when I got home but by the time supper was finished I was pooped. (Well I did have to chase sheep in off the road and haul water (4 tanks) and after all was said and done it was my Dad's 77th birthday.... (the apple pie was for him... his favorite). So by the time I sat down last night knitting was the last thing I had on my mind. For the first time in a very very long time I sat with nothing in my hands and watched a movie.... I don't do that very often. Even when I watch a movie usually I'm spinning or knitting. I certainly miss Teapot's help... he usually hauls water and feeds and chases sheep and goes to the dump and does the recycling... though the last is generally a shared task.
Now along with all of that I'm training a puppy to not pee and poop in the house... this has generally been unsuccessful so far. He's too young to rub his nose in it... he's doesn't know what that means so you have to catch the wee bugger as he is starting to squat and run out the door and put him on the ground before he poops on you. It is rather a hilarious scene to see my rather large carcass running for the door with a mini poop machine in my hands.... held at a distance. Yesterday he discovered the thrill of peeing in the furnace. Our furnace is in the crawl space beneath the floor and the vent for it is in the floor beneath the steps.... well the little bugger peed in there knowing full well that no one would ever find it... I just so happened to hear psssspspsssspspsp and looked up to see him standing there with a rather glazed expression on his face. Yup.... I can't reach down to clean it out... my arms are not long enough... so thank God we are not using the furnace right now or else we would have a fine aroma in the house.... Teapot will have to face that one when he gets home.
Meanwhile I'm trying to train the damn kitten to use a litter tray. That has not always been successful either... right now I have a tub full of stinky cat's pee and water and shoes... the cat decided the other day to pee in the closet where we keep our runners and shoes etc... 2 pairs of flip flops, 1 pair of red high heels, and 3 pairs of runners are now soaking and being washed.... they will be finished today and then I have to clean the tub out with bleach. Yeah gotta love those pets.
So if you're coming for the dye retreat be ready to experience Frankie in extreme wacko mode.
Arrrrrrgggggghhhhh.... I think I'll go have some tea and some breakfast.....maybe that will make me sane....
Nah... that's just impossible.
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