This morning even the mosquitoes are walking. I'm sure that the fog is so thick that they just are too nervous to fly. Really it doesn't surprise me that it is so foggy. We have been having so much rain this year that it looks positively tropical out there. Still I'm not complaining, though I do hope the farmers are able to get their hay off. The fog is golden coloured off to the east so the sun must be trying to burn through.
I peered out through the murk at half past 6 and wended my way downstairs for a cup of tea and to let the dogs out for a bathroom break. I needed to stay by the door and keep an eye on Jiggs since she ran away last night. We are thinking that there is something that distracted her in the bush, like a baby deer or maybe a bear (I'm thinking baby deer since the alpacas and llama are quite peaceful). Usually she will come when she is called but not this time. Then Teapot got mad and that made her run faster. She was gone for a good half hour and only came back when Daughter #2 coaxed her home. So while I watched through the window this morning, I began to read The Alden Amos Big Book Of Hand Spinning. I've always been told that if there is one book that a hand spinner needs in their library it's The Alden Amos Big Book Of Hand Spinning. So this year, while Interweave Press was having its Hurt Book Sale, I decided to finally buy it... it's hilarious. Alden Amos, I think, must eat shards of glass for breakfast to be so sharp. (That's a compliment.. weird I know). At one point he is talking about cleaning fibre and in this instance silk in particular.... he says, "About the only time you have to clean silk before spinning is when you have raised, purchased, or fallen heir to a quantity of mangled, semi-occupied cocoons. In which case you have my sympathy." Ha ha, he cracks me up.... Anyway, the books is awesome. It has everything that you could ever want to know about hand spinning and then some. I've already learned lots and I'm only on pg 49.
Fog seems to be a prevalent issue these days. Last night, when Jiggs went missing, I decided that perhaps I should take the truck and have a look for her on the road. I didn't really think that she had gone that way... I really figured that she had run into the bush, but then I'm not an expert on freaked out dogs who are thirsting after something to chase. So off in the truck I went. That's when I noticed the fog from hell.... there is a streak of some substance on the windsheild of the truck that no sane person can see through. It is the fog from hell. It's hard to drive when you are constantly putting on the windsheild wipers in an effort to wipe away the offending substance on your windsheild. Suffice it to say that I wanted to get out and like the proverbial grandma produce a tissue from the sleeve of my sweater and wipe the offending slime off. However, SINCE I'M NOT OLD, (I only fall asleep in my chair because I have narcolepsy... just joking) I didn't have the required tissue. In the end I didn't drive far and by the time I got home Jiggs was there and it was raining again. (I must say... a little sun would make me feel better if it would only come out for a little while.... but really I'm not complaining!!) The humming birds too seem to be staying in the trees... because I'm refilling the feeders for them and the only thing coming to the feeders are the ants that promptly fall into the feeder and then drift to the top of the syrup, dead. So I'm wondering if the hummingbirds too are feeling that there is just too much fog... still they have to eat... perhaps they have left for the year and are roosting in sunnier climes.
It's years like this that remind me why we left Ontario... The mosquitoes there were unbearable. They would land on the window screen by the thousands and to go outside the door meant that you were taking your life in your hands. It's years like this that make me think that a screened porch is just the ticket. Teapot and I have been seriously thinking about a screened porch since the year of the renovation, but it has not gotten past the planning stages at this point. Still I may have to prod Teapot into taking out his dreaded hammer if we are to survive this summer.
Oh looky! There's blue sky above.... maybe just maybe I can sit out and knit today... for I finished spinning the two spools of Merino/Cashmere/Silk that I was spinning yesterday and I even got it dyed. So now it's straight knitting for the next few days and hopefully.... hopefully, I'll be finished with that level 4 homework...
Have a great day. (And try not to sleep in the fog... because even walking mosquitoes will find you and enjoy a good suck).
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