It is nice and calm this morning... a beautiful fall morning with a soft breeze coming in from the south. But that was not the case last night. Although it was warm last night and beautiful, and while I went out at about 8:30 p.m. and decided to put a fire in the fireplace on our deck, I really didn't feel like summer was over yet... actually I think old Mother Nature is trying to convince us all that summer is going to try and hang around for another few weeks yet. I stayed out till 11 p.m. watching the fire and several times had to throw water over it as it was getting a little out of hand with the wind that kept coming up. The strange thing is that when I first lit the fire there was hardly any wind at all. But bluster, it did, all night long and it was coming in from the south east. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't end up with rain though since any easterly wind usually brings rain within a day or two. Why am I talking about weather... you'd think that I was Dorothy Weather girl! Still it's hard not to notice warm wind when it doesn't get below +24 at night. It almost feels bizarre. But I'm not complaining as I love this kind of fall weather. I sat out last night with the pooches running around in the dark, below the deck on the ground. They were passing through my peripheral vision every so often chasing each other either with a ball or with Jiggs' frizby, with Narmin chewing on Little Monster every so often. It was quite pleasant... especially when Daughter #1 came out to join me on the deck in the balmy night air.
Today the warm air continues and Teapot was quite astounded when he walked out the door first thing this morning and had to come back in and put on a short sleeved top because it was so warm. Teapot and the girls have once again left for school this morning. After yesterday and getting back into our morning routine things were a little easier this morning. Even the dogs seem to be settling into what I would call a regular routine. Get up and while everyone has showers I'm getting a healthy breakfast. We all eat and then Teapot gets lunches for the girls and himself while I shower.... then they head out the door after a parade of makeup and hair dressing (not Teapot). The dogs know they have to stay inside till after they are gone so that they don't chase the truck down the road. About mid-morning I take them for a short walk through the bush (weather permitting) after washing dishes and cleaning up in the kitchen and writing on this thing. It's a pretty good routine and it usually works for us unless there's a boomerang. This morning there was a bit of a boomerang. I'm dehydrated, and weak and shaky, after a night of a nasty results from food poisoning. Things seem to be better but it was fairly violent while it lasted. I'm not sure what I ate but it was classic food poisoning... we have been eating lots of left overs so I'm putting it down to that. Still nobody but me had it.
Today, will be a classic day of dyeing... I hope as long as my stomach doesn't do anything nasty again. I'm finishing up the last of the plying for some alpaca for the 25 shades of logwood. I've finally decided to go ahead with that project. The dye is ready to be stewed and the alpaca is ready to be skeined and there's a nice jug of oxalic acid in the outside fridge. I think I have everything ready and so it begins... another question to be done for the redo on my level 3 homework. I am tempted to hold off for a day and spin and skein some merino to put in the pot too... should I do you think?
I have the whole day to dye today... Teapot and the girls face a full day of school today, unlike yesterday when the girls had a half day of school. Teapot had a meeting last night in FSJ with the Union since he is the school's union rep. There will be a withdrawal of services for a few weeks before they go to a full out strike. The big thing right now is a withdrawal of recess supervision which the province is making out to be the worst things since devil workship... all it means is that a few parents will have to bight the bullet and go watch their kids and a bunch of other kids for two fifteen minute periods throughout the day... not a real hardship if you ask me especially in this weather. I think the whole teachers union should call rotating strikes school by school (not district by district) when it comes time to pull services.... just think of the inconvenience for parents who are trying to figure out whether or not to get their kids up for school.... it would be awesome and the government can't legislate them back to work if it is only a rotating strike.... and it beats walking a picket line and getting paid $50 a day.
Meanwhile the title for today's post was inspired by of course the wind that blew all night... but also the movie that Daughter #1 borrowed from a friend.... yup, we watched the whole thing yesterday afternoon after she came home with it. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh never go out of style.... I watched it again after many years and Daughter #1 watched it for her very first time.... and yes we both boo hoo'd into tissues at several points.... Daughter #2 typed away on her stories and ignored us....
And so I come to the end of todays blog post... I'm off to walk the dogs.... and then do some dyeing... so, with that gentle breeze blowing in through the windows of my sun room, I guess you could say that I'm gone with the wind.....
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