A Little Colour... Or A Lot

Sometimes you need a little pick me up... and this night of wakefulness seems to be a perfect time... and what better than bright colours to give me a boost. I have been having a werewolf night and can't get any sleep. Usually this happens when Teapot goes away, though not quite this bad. I will go to bed at the normal time and take forever to fall asleep and then sleep in in the morning... or I will go to sleep early and then wake up half way through the night and lay awake the rest of the night. However neither of those scenarios quite applies tonight. This is one of those rare occasions when I haven't closed my eyes AT ALL! So when that happens I find the best solution is to get up and do something to take my mind off whatever is bothering me. I spin a little, I knit a little, I blog a little... and if I'm really awake I write poetry. The poetry is not happening tonight... I'm blogging first and then we will see.  Of course I took one look at my blog and decided that it was in need of some colour.... previously it sucked... I knew it after Christmas but just couldn't decide what to do about it. When I first started this blog, it was black with all the colours of the rainbow just as it is now and has been numerous times throughout it life... and while most blog designers will say keep it simple and all these colours are anything but simple.... I just can't resist turning my blog into a rainbow. Still, I like all the black and white pics. They are pretty cool, so I will continue to keep them for as long as I can... but then summer is coming... and who knows what will happen then.

The weekend has come and gone in the blink of an eye. Teapot departed Sunday morning for more southerly climes. He has gone to Comox for a week of training for the JCRs. As a matter of a fact he is doing the same PHASE training that I did a few years ago.  I miss him terribly. That's part of the reason I am wide awake. The ever elusive sleep departed with Teapot when he left. Yesterday morning I woke from strange and kaleidoscope-like dreams to hurried whispers and dark breakfasts and cold outdoor weather, as we left for the airport, leaving the Daughters sleeping peacefully in their beds. Before long the sun was rising and the sky had turned a vivid orange to the east and a pale blue and fuscia sky to the west. The trees were covered in their crystalline coats and everywhere the sky colours were reflected by the fields of white pristine snow. The whole world was awash in colour.

I saw Teapot through security at the airport and headed home again and got here just as my stomach was beginning to growl for a midday meal. Since then I seem to have been busy, yet I have accomplished nothing. There's silk on the wheel... a sample of Bombyx and silk waste meant for a knitted sample, but I really haven't done much with it. I can't seem to find my momentum that I had only a few days ago.  The hemp samples from the other day turned out fine... I've even sold a few skeins of yarn over the weekend to a neighbour's visiting daughter-in-law. But here I sit... at a full out stop.  Perhaps tomorrow, when the light arrives again, and I am able to finally fall asleep from exhaustion, and then wake up refreshed, I might be able to get my feet on the treadles and make some more headway. But for now I stare at my wheel and pray that the ever elusive sleep will come for a wee visit before this night turns into day. But since it is now 5:35 a.m., that's highly unlikely.... for if I fall asleep now, the Daughters and I will likely sleep till half the morning is gone. (Not that they would mind missing a little school!)

So the results of this wakeful night lays before you in all the colours of the rainbow.... and those colours are chosen as brights because we all need a little brightness in these last dark days that cling to us as mother nature tries to throw winter off her back...

Happy sleeping to you and yours.... may you be snoring peacefully... drowsing in sweet dreams.