Yesterday, after drawing, I spent the spent the day weaving, and my abs and legs feel it. Not as bas as some of the workouts I have done, but while sitting on the exercise ball definitely helps my back not hurt after a day of weaving, it does increase the workout for the abs and legs on those days. I listened to That Kinda of guy by Talia Hibbert for some of the day, and read a little of Battle Bond by Lindsay Buroker. Battle Bone is book two of a newish series by that author, and while the main protagonist is in her 40s, she does not seem that different than the author's other protagonists. I'm continuing to enjoy the series, but I don't seem to be as engrossed in it as I have been in others that she wrote.  I also made dinner (cheesy grits are best grits) and cracked a bunch of oats to make a big pot of oatmeal for reheating for breakfast. But I'm not going to do that today, because M brought home yummy bread from his grocery stop yesterday (cranberry/walnut and asiago/sourdough!) which will be breakfasts for however long it lasts, and the basis for BLT's for tonight's dinner. I also got a call from the weaving studio (access arts) that are going to let me do 2 hours a week alone, so I don't give anyone else cooties, or germs, or whatever.  Oh, and I was planning on going back to Ohio next week to help a sister-in-law with some house stuff, but she has mentioned that she is worried about the risk going up there, so she suggests I not come. Oh, and one last thing, I am signed up for election poll training next week, but I changed the time I was to show up, and now, while I know it is Tuesday, I am not sure what time on Tuesday. I was hoping I would get an email yesterday telling me about that, but I have not seen such a thing in my email yet, so I shall have to figure out how to find out more. 

Oh, while I was weaving on #RLTS4 , I finished the last of the 5 samples, and I discovered that the innermost column of emptyness was not because I totally missed that dent in the reed, but because the two threads that belonged in that dent were mistakenly in the dent beside it! So I corrected that. I am going to leave the last column empty for enough for one kitchen towel because I really want to see how that survives repeatedly being used and abused as a towel, and then fill in that column with some of the bigger linen thread I have and see how that looks as a little bit of a decorative element as well.  And I spent most of the weaving time listening to the videos from https://www.youtube.com/c/LindsayEllisVids/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid Enjoyable mostly, and I can mostly listen while weaving, which is also nice. 

Today was calligraphy Psalme 1-4 

Modern version: His leaf also shall not wither: and look, whatsoever he doth, it shall prosper. 

1584 version: Whose leafe shall neuer fade nor fall, but florish still and stand*:

                        Even so all thygs shall prosper well, that this man takes in hand.

*"still and stand" obviously, it mean it grows well and flourishes, but I'm curious what other connotations it has.

Whole Psalme 1, 1584 version. I have some questions about some of the further words, which I have annotation in the picture included. Here is the source for the text. It is page 31 of the online text. https://archive.org/details/wholebookeofpsal1584ster/page/30/mode/2up 

The man is blest, that hath not bent

to wicked rede his eare:not led his life as sin-

ners do, not sate in scorners chair. 2. But in the 

law of God the Lord, doth let his whole delight, 

and in that law doth exercise himself both

day and night

3 He shalbe* like the tree, that groweth

fast by the rivers side:

which bringeth forth most pleasant fruit,

in her due tyme and tyde.

4 Whose leafe shall neuer fade not fall,

but florish still and stand:

Euen so all thynges shall prosper well,

that this man takes in hand.

5 So shall not the ungodly men,

they shalbe* nothyng** so:

But as the dust(?) which from the earth,

the winds drive to and fro.

6 Therefore shall not the wicked men, 

in iudgement(judgement) stand upright:

Nor yet the sinners with the iust(just),

shall come in place or sight(? or maybe light?)

7For why? the way of godly men,

unto the Lord is known:

And eke(?) the way of wicked men,

shall quite be overthrowne.

*the shal and the be look not to have a space between them "shalbe". There are places where shall is its own word with two ls, but it looks like shalbe is how it is written when shall and be are next to each other. 

**not quite sure if there is a space between these two words.

Also, looking at psalme 1-7, and going back to the original page for psalme 1:1-2, where letters are capitalized is a little confusing. I shall have to keep an eye out for what rules I can observe. 

I think I shall have to look out for some good in depth analysis of the psalms to start reading. Because I know there are and will be references that I just don't get, for various reasons. 

July 8, 2020

I'm just not feeling any passion for the drawing lately, but I am going to keep at it several times a week, because it is a skill I want. I didn't do drawing or calligraphy yesterday because I got a traffic ticket for like 83 in a 60 mile zone, and yesterday at 9am I had court. Which, I have found out I could have just paid online, but whatever. I plead guilty, paid my money, and got the info the the online safe driver program that I should complete so I can get some of the points taken off my record. I should have done that right away yesterday, but I did not feel like it, and I don't particularly feel the desire to do it today either. 

However, I did get the first sample woven on #RLTS4 woven, so that warp is obviously reasonably happy. However, when slaying the reed, I managed to skip two different dents in the reed totally, and I wanted at least a couple of samples with the voids still there, because I want to see how they react after they are off the loom and washed and used, as this could be a really cool decretive thing to do on purpose, but after that, I kinda want to fill in that space, and I am trying to decided what I would be most happy with. A couple of the things I have thought of is to put two threads into each dent, and randomly choose which heedle to have them go though. They would be off pattern, but I think off pattern would still be better than a gap. Another option would be to fill that with one thread that is thicker, either in a thicker white linen, or a thicker thread of some other color. Since most of the kitchen towels will be for mom, I should ask her what she might desire.  

I also have had the yardage from #RLTS3 hanging around for months, mostly because while I washed it many times, I never ironed it! Argh! So, I ironed it to a fare thee well, cut it up, and packaged up samples and cap lengths(just AC and TE) for Katrina O, Alex C, and Teka E. I had about 2 yards left, and one of them will go to Kat F, and I think I will make what remains into some kitchen towels. I might label them so I can keep track of how they hold up over the years.  Oh, and seem to have lost the yardage for the cap that I had meant to send to Alex C from #RLTS2. I have 2's samples in my sample book, but no idea where her cap fabric went. Which is why I am sending her the stuff from 3. 

I did my drawing today, and the faces I tried to follow the directions from Jack Hamm's book Drawing the head and figure, first page. I think the first (far right) head looks the best, much better then the second at least! He has further detailed directions on the face, but I am somewhat impressed by how much they already look like faces. I think my most unhappiness is with the hair and mouth.  Also, while this is supposed to be a generic woman's face, it seems very much a generic white woman's face. The book was written in 63, so that is somewhat understandable, if unfortunate. I think I will need to look around to see how to draw other faces. In later pages, he talks about the differences in male faces, but again, it is generic white guy face. 

The cats are from a picture from the internet. The first one (body face on) looks more like a monster face I think then a cat's face, but I think the second one looks better. I have included the picture I tried to copy from, but I forgot to save attribution, so I have no idea where it came from. 

Author, Talia Hibbert mini book review.

Another romance book. I just read it, I think I was recommended to this author by someone, I just can't remember who.  Talia Hibbert, A Girl Like Her. 

This is written by a woman of color who is also autistic from England. Most of her books seem to have a woman of color as the female protagonist, and this one below happens to have a woman of color who is also autistic. It was interesting reading an autistic person written by an autistic person, and to have her get a HEA, not be a supporting character. I enjoyed it. I have read this one, and one other so far, and both have been enjoyable. Fairly short, but enjoyable. 

I got them though my online library, but looking at the amazon page for this one, the kindle version is 2.99, and if you buy the audible version also, it is only 1.99, so for like five dollars, you get both the kindle and the audible, which I like having. The audio of at lest this one is also included in the audible escape subscription. I keep thinking about subscribing to that but I have not yet. 

https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Like-Her-Romance-Ravenswood-ebook/dp/B07B9Z6846/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ravenswood+romance+talia&qid=1594053675&sr=8-2&fbclid=IwAR2-fZWQJb7dMZ0nziPUItGoNRiUd3Jet2pVHZGtQA6wT66tF4K98jfOY7s

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Update several days later. I have now finished the A Girl Like Her, and read the next one (about the evil wife), and the next one, about the sister, and am now listening to That Kind of Guy, about Zach and his lady-love.  It is interesting, and fun so far, and its a little odd in that the male protagonist is demi. And we don't seem to have much fiction that has a male who is demi, so that is cool. She brings her typical (so far at least) compassion and understanding to the portrayal, which is even nicer. I wonder how someone who is demi would feel about this character.  

https://www.amazon.com/That-Kind-Guy-Ravenswood-Book-ebook/dp/B07PDHMSQG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=That+kind+of+guy&qid=1594220396&sr=8-1

#RLTS3 is finished and done.

#RLTS3 
I did not write down when I finished this fabric, but it got warped back in March 2020. It is 10/1, but the good stuff from Tied to History, not the crappy stuff from the Yarn Barn. I got 224” finished length, but it looks like I did not write down how long the warp was. It ended up being 11” wide out of an in reed width of 13”. Which is quite a bit of shrinkage! 

I have a sample for myself, and three samples for friends, and two lengths that should be long enough for a cap, and one long length that I don’t know what I will use it for. 

It turned out to be a fairly heavy thick fabric. I might make kitchen towels out of the remaining length, but if anyone else wants enough for a cap, let me know. I might be willing to part with it. 

I’m fairly happy with how the selvages turned out, they are mostly evenish and I am happy with it. It would do wonderfully for whipped together seams! 

I got it off the loom several months ago, I am not sure why it has taken me so very long to iron it out and cut it up and mail it out. Yeh. But I shall have it done today/tomorrow! Yay! 

I do seem to have lost the length of leftover #RLTS2, which was made out of the crappy 10/1. I mean, I have the small samples that I am putting into my sample book, but not the length that I was going to mail to my friend for her use. I am tearing my hair out trying to figure out where I put it. Argh! How many other people lose hand woven cloth??? I mean, it must be somewhere...

(Note, Kat F asked for a length for herself from the remaining yardage on Facebook)

July 6, 2020 - Psalme 1-3

July 6th, 2020. I think I shall alternate days, one day do the drawing, one day do the calligraphy. Unless I feel moved to do both. That will always be allowed if I have time.

Today's text: Psalm 1-3

(1584) he shal be like the tree, that groweth fast* by the rivers side: which bringeth forth most pleasaunt fruit, in her** due tyme and tyde.

Tomorrow's: I need a little help here. As close as I can tell, it should be

(1584) Psalm 1-4 Whose leafe shall never fade nor fall, but florish (?)ill and (?)and***:Even so all thynges shall prosper well, that this man takes in hand.

I am not sure what letter(s) start those two words. perhaps (sh)ill and (st)and? In the current anglican psalter this psalm is:

"His leaf also shall not wither: and look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.

*groweth fast: I've heard this use of "fast" before and looking it up, there is one of the definitions of the word fast that I don't think is used as much nowadays. "fast can mean doing something speedily, but it can also mean firmly affixed to something, or being stable. I wonder how both moving quickly and being firmly fixed both came to be meanings associated with this word.

** interesting note, I think most of us would use "its" to refer to something about a river. I wonder if river is gendered female in German or French or latin? I don't remember and the quick sources I am finding don't tell me which gender is associated with the word.

Note: I am trying to keep the spelling of which ever text I am transcribing from, but autocorrect sometimes sneaks in and I don't notice it always.

I think my hand is already getting better! But lots more practice is due it. I think I shall also go back to the beginning of this text and try to just read and transcribe it so I am working on the reading, which was my original goal with this project. First get to be able to read the printed text, then work on the hand written texts that are available online.

Oh, sources: same as before

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-whole-booke-of-psalmes-collected-into-englishe-metre-1584

https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/book-common-prayer/psalter/psalms-1-5

Text so far:

Psalme 1:1-3

The man is blest, that that hath not bent

to wicked rede his eare: nor led his life as sin-

ners do, not sate in scorners chaire. 2. But in the

law of God the Lord, doth let his whole delight,

and in that law doth exercise him both

day and night.

3. He shal be like the tree that groweth

fast by the rivers side:

Which bringeth forth most pleasaunt fruit,

in her due tyme and tyde.

oh, daily journaling stuff: Over the weekend, M and I went to visit his mother for a bit at her home, and as a result, stayed one night with B and her family, and the second night with Ka and her family. At B's, her oldest was most pleasant to spend time with, and both M and I got new prescriptions for our eyes. I need to get progressive lenses T says, so I chose new frames because my typical tiny glasses are not tall enough for the progressives. At Ka's house, I spent most of the evening with her daughter, talking about crocheting and knitting. I brought her one of my knitting books to left to her, and the old kindle I got from Betsy. And then when I got home last evening, I bought her a kindle book on socks (ann Budd's) and had the paper version of sock architecture by Lara Need. 

After Thursday evening's scene between M and I, I had a hard time feeling charitable to him, but I need to be able to do that soon. 

Tomorrow, I have to go to traffic court, I should venture out this afternoon and get some cash for that. And I also need to figure out what's for dinner and I really want to get my loom wound on. We shall see how much of that happens. 

July 2, 2020 Daily Calligraphy Psalm 2

I had a teacher for quite a while (until the end of 7th grade) who did daily readings from the Bible, and once a week scripture class, which I both adored and hated. I adored it because she would also talk about the history and world (as she knew it, and she was actually pretty knowledgeable) about the world "back then" but I hated it because she would just read the one sentence that she had decided on that day, and go off on that. Which always managed to frustrate me because I was fine with the sermon on the one phrase, but I wanted to hear the context that phrase was in also. So I will be repeating previous phrases for a bit each day in the text on the computer so I, at least, can see the more of the whole. Today, I did Psalme 2, which brings us to a grand total of 2 psalmes written in a very poor hand, but wait until I get to the end of the book of psalmes! I bet I will be very good, or at least decent by then. 

1.The man is best, that hath not bent to wicked rede his are: nor led his life as sinners do, not sate in scorner's chair. 2. But in the law of God the Lord, doth let his whole delight, and in that law doth exercise him self both day and night.

By the way, that teacher also did the same thing with this video of Mortimer Adler and I thought I hated his philosophizing until I got to see him in person one time with my mom, and I was all amazed that he made sense and he was not agonizing at all. So... uhm, if you are a teacher, maybe keep in mind that some of us work better if we get to see more of the whole occasionally...

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Tomorrow's psalm. The (kinda) modern version is "2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord : and in his law will he exercise himself day and night." From (https://www.churchofengland.org/…/book-c…/psalter/psalms-1-5 and yes, I am choose the Church of England's translation on purpose). 

I think an transcription of what is printed on this page (from this source https://publicdomainreview.org/…/the-whole-booke-of-psalmes…) is

(2) But in the law of God the Lord, doth let his whole delight, and in that law doth exercise him self both day and night. 

Interesting how the change from whole delight to his delight happened. It even kinda changes the meaning somewhat. Like, in the older one, that is the only thing he should delight in, and in the more modern one, it is just a delight that he has. Also, in the older one, I think it is clearer that the law is god's. In the newer version, the antecedents get kinda confused, and if one chose to, one could assume that "his law" was the man, not God's. 

Just to have them together, 
(1)The man is best, that hath not bent to wicked rede his are: nor led his life as sinners do, not sate in scorner's chair. (2) But in the law of God the Lord, doth let his whole delight, and in that law doth exercise him self both day and night.

July 2, 2020 Daily drawing

Today I decided to draw a hippo because of a video of a hippo diving and surfacing and so forth and I do love watching hippos. Mind you, as cute as they look, remember they can be very dangerous. Supposably there is a alt history book out there where the author had hippos imported into the US at an early stage, and somehow they became the horses that rebels rode... I have not read it, but it somehow came to my attention at one point. I should find it again. And the octopus is from a pottery remnant, which I think was shared by this Facebook page, but I am having trouble finding it. And I copied the flipping page for the signature from this particular post. https://www.facebook.com/ArchaeologistTiciaVerveer/photos/a.834828066542545/4332961690062481/?type=3&theater

This particular hippo is from www.cool2bkids.com because It had step by step instructions that most closely fit the image in my head. I shall have to look at some actual pictures of them and see what I should do differently next time. I know I need to work on the legs, why are legs so flipping difficult? And after yesterday's attempts at a face, I suppose I should work on faces some as well. I have a nifty book from My mom about faces body, and one from my friend S about figure studies. I shall have to try doing more from both of those at some point. But I also want to find more/better help for animal legs because those seem to be a particular trial for me.  

I have not done much book/media wise lately because I hvave been spending way too m much time on Facebook, but I have listened to some more of The Raven about Jim Jones, and he was not a good kind of freak early on. I also wonder about how people can make themself so ecstatic, I don't think I have ever felt the heights of emotion that many people describe during religious or such experiences, even with the help of drugs! And I have been going to sleep with Nalini Singh's stuff lately. OH!!! I lie!! I just remembered that I stayed up way way way too late reading a book that appeared on my kindle in this last week I think, Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian. Which I enjoyed even more then I normally enjoy her books. One of my niggling issues with some of her books is that there does not seem to be much acknowledgment that females can have non-mainstream sexual desires, ie that a female might not want to have sex with a guy. I think that is a side effect of many of the characters being isolated from relationships where female desires are actually discussed, which makes sense in the context of the books, but, it managed to bother me nonetheless. However, in this one, which is a M/M regency type story, where the one of the two protagonists is talking with his aunt about getting married, and how it would not be fair to the woman, his aunt rather delicately mentions that there are women out there that perhaps don't want to have relations with a man and yet still need to get married, I almost cheered!  Like I said, it really is not important, it just is one of those things that tends to bug me in a fair amount of "lgbt" story. So much of it seems to focus on m/m stories that it bugs me. Now, I think that is because a lot of romance stories are sold to straight women, and the assumption is that they are willing to read about m/m stories, but not w/w or otherwise stories. Which is probably a fair assessment of the reading audience. I hope that changes. 

JULY 1 daily drawing and calligraphy

July 1, 2020. Daily drawing and calligraphy practice. Well, it has turned out to not be daily, but I think y goal will be 4 times a week? I think that forces some practice and gives me some wiggle room. I spent Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday finishing another unit of the Business Law class. Now I have only 4 more chapters and one more test and I will be finished with summer school. And because of how he set things up, I can't work on them until the 11th, so I have a few days to come up for air. I had meant to spend the day finishing getting my warp on my loom, but I woke up today kinda loggy and headache, and this warp is not something I want to do when I'm not on my feet. I really need to get a smaller dent reed. 

So today's drawing is Mike and my heraldry, it already looks better hand drawn then the first time. I also copied something that I saw in one of ( https://www.facebook.com/moIdelbuchmuse/ ) posts, from the met at this location (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/660103…) I do need to work on faces more. 

And then the calligraphy practice is the first psalm, taken from this source. My plan is to be practicing my calligraphy along with studying my psalms, so a twofer! https://publicdomainreview.org/…/the-whole-booke-of-psalmes…

This one is (1)The Man is lest, that hath not bent to wicked rede his eare: nor let his life as sinners do, not sate in scorners chair. The more modern Anglican version from (https://www.churchofengland.org/…/book-c…/psalter/psalms-1-5) which says "BLESSED is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners : and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful." 

I have also spent a little more time listening to The Raven, which is a book about Jim Jones. Just...argh, why do people follow people like this? Fucking tests of loyalty shit. 
Oh, and back to the calligraphy practice... Like, could there be a pun here? The modern (hah) translation talks about walking in the counsel of the ungodly, and rede is an archaic way of saying consul, so thats a fair translation. BUT if one says rede like reed, that is something that famously bends under slight pressure. so bent to the rede of the wicked could also maybe be translated as bending to the advise of the bad people... ok, I might be reaching too far here. 

Oh, and that warp, that is why I like to have lots of little dumbbells. 

Progress on dressing the loom. RLTS#4

Got all 510 ends threaded though the heddles. Next step is to move stuff around so that M has space to sit and turn the back beam as I tell him to while I manage the warp going though the reed. He's not feeling like it, that will probably wait until tomorrow. 

This particular linen is like the most excellent stuff, and is nothing at all like the frustrating experience I have had weaving with some sub-standard linen.The linen is from https://tiedtohistory.com, who is both an excellent vender of great stuff, nut also a nice person. . If you are convinced that you hate weaving with linen, make sure that you have tried good quality stuff before you let that opinion settle in your brain. 

It's funny how just the joy of having an excellent material in my hands can make me feel joy.

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Comment from after I did the first couple of turns: I currently have a 12 dent reed that I have been using for everything, but this project might have needed me to acquire a 10 dent or smaller reed. To get the epi I wanted I needed to go 3 ends in one dent every other dent. And as lovely as this linen is, it is perfectly fine with the two ends in the dent, but the three ends are not happy. 

This is not a failure, even if I can't get this to work as I want it to, but I have plans...but this is exactly what all these endless sampler projects are for, to learn all these things that I don't know. 

I mean, it's nice to get useable things also, but learning is the primary goal.

June 27, 2020

I had too much caffeine on Thursday, and I had extra yesterday to hopefully give myself a smooth ramp down, but, uhm,

I'm definitely feeling the lack today. I only got one load of rocks from the creek yesterday for the hill in done before the heat defeated me, but it rained last night/this morning so it should be much more humid today! What joy living in MO is. I did get a bunch of weeds pulled and some of the mimosa spouts trimmed up from the back patio area. I still need to cut down the finished flowering clematis's.  The yard is lovely and full of clover flowers. We have lots and lots of clover growing amongst the grass, which is nice. 

Yesterday, I also got half of the 510 threads though the heddles on this current weaving project (the samples for the 20/1 linen). I had been avoiding finishing dressing my weaving because after I got everything though the reed, I thought the linen was snarling. so I spent several weeks just kinda avoiding that project. But once I sat down and was sensible, the problem went away, and then the heddles were their normal tedium. I found one dent in the reed that was skipped so far, and I decided to do nothing about it, and will jus see what irregularity that gives the linen.  Mike says that he is going to make pizza for dinner tonight, so nothing that needs to be thought about in the food category, which I always like. He is also thawing a turkey because he wants to cook it for tomorrow. I think it is just a turkey breast, but I'm not sure now that I think about it. 

Today, I know I have lots of stuff I can do, but I think I will continue on with finishing the heddles on this project, and if I get far enough, I hope to gets M's help turning the back beam so I can get the whole warp wound onto it and maybe do a little set up weaving. I also have at least one, but I think two, 40/1 linen sample warps that have been off the loom and washed for ages that need ends sewn in or cut off, and then lengths separated and packaged to be sent out. I hope to get that doe and ready by this afternoon. 

Today's drawing: I was not feeling inspired, so I continued on with the one-point perspective from www.helloartsy.com/one-point-perspective/ that I enjoyed before. I wonder what they have up after one point perspective? 

Today's calligraphy: second half of the alphabet. This is just the lower case letters, and I think I will be ok with just practicing them for right now, so I should dig up the Facebook post where we talked about appropriate books of psalms to copy soon.  Numbers are grouped with the uppercase, so tomorrow might be prating the numerals, and the copying psalms might start on Monday.  I really like how my m and n's and zs look. 

Book: I finished listening to Alpha Nights and then switched over to Silver Silence but Nalini Singh. Not overly interested in it (this is not the first time I've listened to it) but it is something... I have a couple of new books in audible and on the library account ts, but not feeling inspired by any of them. I have Raven (about the Jonestown cult) waiting there, and I am really fascinated by it, but not sure I am feeling quite into the crazy at the moment. 

Current state of the snake coif. I posted this on Facebook a few days ago. And I decided to go with the single ply (yes, I know single ply is redundant, but I hate the alternatives) of the original green for the bottoms of the snakes. 

---Ok! So here we are. A picture of how the embroidery is so far. I only have 1/5th of the thread color left and for various reasons I don't want to/am unable to order more. It is a two ply reeled silk. The last picture is the available colors I have that are not earmarked for other projects. I pulled out the two yellow, a light green, and a copper color, and did a line of one ply of each color, paired with one ply(yes, I know saying ONE ply or single ply is redundant) and did a test line. I also, on the top did one line with just a single ply. 

The thought is, that in the remaining non-finished snakes, I would do the top with the two ply old green, and do the bottom of the snake with whatever combo I think would look best. Keep in mind that I also want to come back in and do something to represent the hatching that Trevelyon did on his snakes, and I will have to figure that at at some point. Though I might decided to use something that I can order more of, since I see that part sucking up lots of thread. 

Oh, also, on the left side of each try is the color the green is mixed with, and on the right side is a short line of the 2 ply green, just to show what it would look like paired up with the main color.

Anyway, time to make YOUR opinion know! What do you think I should use for the bottom?
1)The single ply of the original green?
2)the pale green?
3)the pale yellow?
4)the strong yellow?
5)the copper? 

6)you need a better picture of the attempts? 
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The manuscript page is from the Trevelyon Miscellany, and I tiled the page several times and carefully alligned the snakes so that I could keep the scale at as near to the size on the page as I could get, given the reported size of the book (496 x 326 x 494 millimeters), and then I traced the outlines onto a sheet of tracing paper, and then used that and a temporary light table made for by Harry Mencke. Go to this page and you can download a full pdf of the manuscript! https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11292/#q=trevelyon&

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June 26, 2020

I had fallen off the wagon on my daily drawing that I started a while ago, and I kept letting the blank page defeat me on the calligraphy practice I wanted to start. To this morning I got up earlyish, and did both. I think I figured out WHY I had fallen off the wagon though. When mom was here visiting, I was being good about waking up before M left for work, and that gave me quiet time that I could use for the drawing. With waking up later, I felt that I should start the work of the day, whatever that work should have been, right away. So I am attempting to make myself wake up at an early-ish time. I think I might even see if S and P are walking, and what time they are doing it, and see if I can get myself back into the swing of that. 

I did DRAGONS for the first time in a while, and I did one after SlackWyrm, by JoshuaWright.net and several after various stick figured dragons I found on the internet. I am always fascinated by what minimal features need to be included for our brains to say.. "Oh, thats an xyz" and which features are unnecessary. Also, how what is needed can change between groups of people or overtime.  I also drew some multifora roses that were blooming outside yesterday. I wonder if they will still be blooming today. And my attempt at M's and mine's heraldry. and some ivy...

M is home today, not feeling well. Now that it is 10am, I think I shall eat some of the oatmeal I made a few days ago for breakfasts this week, and thinking of what I want to accomplish today.  Here is a partial list, we will see how much happens. 

-Cut off the suckers coming out of a bunch of the trees around the lawn area, and cut out some places where the mimosas are coming back where they should not be, both on the hill and not. 

-clamber into the creaked because it is dry and toss out some rocks to add to the beds

-weed the front beds, and pull out the hosts I want to move (it is being overcrowded by some ferns)

-see if I can bring myself to plant some of the asparagus into the front beds

-sctoh gaurd the chairs

-exersise at 1pm

-see if S&P are still walking, make plans to join them next week 

-untabngle my warps and finishing dressing the loom

-pull out Juli's dress and work on that, see if she would be ok with a brief visit to check fit before continuing. Maybe work on the others that are cut out

-work on army guy mouse, unbox the cowboy mouse hat, make a teddy bear for a mouse, and some an outfit

-think about dinner...

Ok, there is no way all of that is happening, but we will see. 

June 25

New attempt to make daily posts. Today I drove over to St Louis to drop off wool with a friend (she took 4 bags full!) before mom gets back down here withe the boys and this year's haul of wool.  I put like 8 bags in the car, and let her chose from what was there. She Tok four, some for herself, and some for a friend. I then went down to JC where I picked up some Lava rocks from Gabby, who also gave me a bag full of pork/boar(!) that her husband had hunted. Which was unexpected. Thankfully, We reorganized the chest freezer, so there was actually room for the stuff. I look forward to eating it. I also offered help with the butchering when the time came for the next hunt.

One of the things I like the best about the people I know is how generous most of them are. I get wool for free from a friend, I give the extra away. A friend gave me some fish for free that she did not like, and it just all goes around, and no one nickel and dimes each other with a strict accounting. It is so nice to have the financial flexibility to give what I can, and receive without feeling guilty.

By the way, I still have wool left, and I am about to get this year's haul.  Let me know if you want any. 

Here is my little hill with the sones added. Mom painted a bunch of little stones a couple of weeks ago, and I needed to move some of them so that they would still be visible. 

Also, one of the roses in the front is blooming, and while I know they are invasive and need to go, the blooms are so pretty!

And look at this monster weed in one of the blackberry patches. Plantnet says it is pigeon berry but I don't know what that is so not very helpful.




Books for the day: 

I finished Dawn Caravan by Elizabeth Hunter last night. Loved it. Here is what I wrote about it last night. 

So. I have stopped reading series because the author got this great tension between characters, and then never resolved it in any meaningful way after 17 books. Ok, I stopped reading well before th 17th book, and the particular books I am thinking about are probably way past that number anyway. But for some reason 17 popped into my head as the number to use here. No idea why. 

But to get back on my topic, I was kinda dreading this book that I just finished, because it was a continuation of a story that had some great sexual tension that the author has been setting up as background in like 9 books, and then used as the foreground of like 3 books/stories and it was starting to get to the point where I would have stopped reading. And I did not particularly want to do that because I love her writing. But... it was starting to become very annoying. 

Now, paradoxically, by near the end I was worried because she finally resolved the tension exquisitely, but now I was wondering if she was going to hop onto different characters for her next book or how she was going to make the next book “interesting “. Like, was she going to invent something to put distance between the two that she had just masterfully managed to bring together but not make it too HEA, which I know is tricky for a writer. 

I was so relieved! She managed to use the last 5 pages to NOT invent a ridiculous new tension betweens the protagonists, but to make me all interested in what was going to happen next! While not feeling like it was an awful cliffhanger. I mean, she set up her next story, but I don’t feel like the story she just finished was unended. 

Which is really hard thing for a writer to do! 

I am really so very impressed with her writing. 

By the way, if you are wondering what book it was, this particular book was Dawn Caravan by Elizabeth Hunter. 

I would, however, recommend, if you are new to her stuff, that you read A Hidden Fire, a book that is actually FREE right now on amazon. I think Dawn Caravan has enough back story filled in, that if you are familiar with paranormal fantasy, you would be fine reading it, but I think you would enjoy it more if you started her world from the beginning.

And I have been listening to the audio book version of Alpha Night by Nalini Singh. I read the book a bit ago when it came out, but am borrowing the audio version from the library because frequently, the first read though of a new book by an author I like is just a gulp it down so I know the story, and then I listen to it to actually get details and enjoy it at leisure. It is very similar to her past books, but I have enjoyed it nonetheless.  I do like that, unlike with Mercy's and Adira's books (and some of the others) there was not the whole thing about the man needing to be strong enough to best them. I mean, she does talk some about how strong Ethan is, but he doesn't need to be stronger then her. I always think of it as the Red Sonja syndrome. I would still love to see her write a Dominate Female and a Submissive male (not BDSM, just how she has things in her world). 

Jan 18

Lets see if I can actually get into this regularly.

What I worked on today:
I figured out what I want to do weaving wise on my linen sample project, though I am told that my wraps per inch needs to be a little tighter to be accurate. Also, that I want my epi to be about half of my wraps per inch, so I need to recalculate what is written here.

I also knitted a bit of the lining for the smallest sized of the deep in the woods mittens.  As. well as continued work on the Santas for next year's Christmas Presents project.  I need to get to a friend's to print out the 12 days-day 2, and I need to order more pages of the sulky solvy on amazon.

I also worked some on organizing THE GARAGE.  I got the dear husband's permission to organize one of his typically disorganized shelf, and then went though some boxes (my kitchen counter is over laden with stuff that has been in boxes since before I left Long Island). I posted some books on Facebook, and they were claimed. I also posted some frankoma trivets, and my brother wants them. but then a third cousin asked for them, and I told him that they were already claimed by brother, but o have a whole box of frankoma that I don't have space for, and we arranged that I would drop them off next time Im in Chicago.

Watched/listented to/read: During the day I listened to more My Favorite Murder, I think I ended with episode 22 or something like that.  And reading, I'm continuing on with Anna Carven's Darkstar mercenaries.

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