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.