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A View From the Field |
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July 2 Last night, I couldn't get FrontPage to upload the web, so I ended up having to do it by hand, one file at a time. Then I got to playing games, and it was 2:00 before I got to bed. Oops. I got up around 10:45, and I petted a cat and unknitted the bound off row of the afghan. I will try another way tomorrow and see what that does.
I was so late getting up that I didn't do much of anything except get the dishwasher ready to run tonight. I used the last cat dishes this morning. This time it's not quite as full, so it should wash better.
I worked on the snowflake bracelet some more, but I had ripped it out so many times that finally I had to end off that thread and start another one. Somehow I always have that problem with patterns when I start doing them - the only one I don't is the zigzag pattern, but that is so simple it would be hard to screw it up. On the snowflake bracelet, it's a combination of having to put the snowflakes in the right place and having to make the wavy background work right...and there are six vertical beads in each snowflake. I'll get it down, but I will be making two of them.
The weather wasn't anything to boast about. It rained hard from 1:00 to 6:00 am last night, and we got almost a quarter inch of rain. It was pouring when I went to sleep, a good lullaby. It was cloudy and blah all day, but the temperature got up to 56º for a while this afternoon. The wind was in the 10-20 mph range. I was perturbed, because Environment Canada, which is usually pretty accurate, predicted clearing skies this afternoon and clear skies for the night and tomorrow. Well...they were wrong. Really wrong. At least it was a little warmer, but it was just as humid as it's been lately, over 90% all day. My back was telling me so.
I forgot to mention that yesterday I finally got all the cat food I brought back from Detroit put in the pantry cupboard, and this morning we had something new for breakfast that seemed to go over rather well. Buster likes gravy, and anything that has gravy. Yesterday we had an old variety that we haven't had much of, and boy did that go over well! Buster sat down and really chowed down, which is not a normal thing for him, and the dishes were just about empty this morning. Some cats want the same thing every day, but at least Buster wants something different every day, and if he gets the same thing too much, he gets tired of it. Talk about spoiled...
This afternoon after I ate, I had an accident. It was partly my own fault, but it shouldn't be happening. The doctor wants me to have another fecal bacteria test, but I can pretty much tell him what it's going to find - we didn't kill off the C. diff. My problem was compounded by some very sore hemorrhoids, so I was uncomfortable for most of the afternoon, and I washed two pairs of jeans and a couple of pairs of underpants, which are now in the dryer. Oh, if this will ever end!
My friend Syd called me - by accident - this afternoon, and they are doing well, and are very happy to be here fulltime. Like most Harborites who have lots of friends and family, they are overrun with guests, but it didn't sound like she minds that a lot. It gets quieter after Labor Day.
Now I am going to bed. I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, and I am tired. It's a dull, dank, cool night in the field, and a good one for sleep.
July 1 So here it is July, and we are into the second half of the year. Where, oh where has the time gone? Sigh.
I don't know where the time goes in a day, either. I went up to the north end at a fairly reasonable hour last night, but I started reading the last episode in the blue binder (the one I am still writing) and it was midnight before I got to bed. I got up around 9:30, I think, and I petted a cat for a while.
I bound off the afghan again...and this time it was too loose, so that it ruffled. Sigh. I began pulling it out again, which is a real problem with mohair, but I decided to leave that until tomorrow. The first way is too tight, the second way is too loose, so I will try a combination of the two and see what that does. Buster got disgusted by the time I was at the end of the row and he went off in a huff. I think I will take the rest of the #11 needles with me tonight. I think I have a set of double points, which will work better, since I only have two stitches on the right hand needle at a time.
Then I came down to the office, where it took me quite a while to do my morning surfing, since something seemed to be wrong with the broadband, and I kept losing communication. In the middle of the afternoon, it got so bad that I called, and yes, they were having trouble. I think a piece of equipment must have failed. I could get to Pastynet and my website just fine, but I couldn't get out into cyberspace very well at all. I am still trying to sign up for Mechanical Turk.
I think they solved most of the problem late in the afternoon, because I was able to order my vitamin B6 and do a few other things I hadn't been able to do before. However, it took so long to do anything that I am not going to get the Amazon ads on the site tonight. I want to do that right, and it will take too long.
I finished the twisted rope bracelet, and it came out quite well. I gauge how well I'm doing on those things by how straight the sides are, and this one came out pretty well. Then I tried to start a snowflake bracelet. Well! As I recall, I have only made two of those, and it showed. I had a horrible time getting the pattern started, and while I finally did it, I had to do an awful lot of ripping. I will eventually get the hang of it. Like the rope and post thing, I think I will do two, just to get the pattern burned into my head and my fingers. This one is a bit tricky because there is a wavy line of matte finish beads down the middle, behind the snowflakes, and since those beads are exactly the same color as the shiny ones, sometimes I can't see them too well. It's coming along now, though, and I will continue tomorrow. Not tonight.
The weather was yucky again, although not as bad as yesterday, in that it didn't rain. It was dark and cloudy and cold. The temperature hung right around 50º all day, and there was a relatively strong north wind, in the 15-20 mph range. It wasn't very nice out. Even though it didn't rain, the humidity has been over 90% (closer to 100%) all day, and my back has been telling me so.
In the middle of the afternoon, my neighbor Jean called to ask if I had a spool of white thread. Well, of course, I do, since I could probably start my own fabric store, but the question was, is it upstairs, or do I have to go down to the basement? Fortunately, the answer was, it was here, so I sent her off with it. She is a nice lady.
So that was my quiet day, and after I process the June journal into Word, I will be off to the north end to read a while, I'm sure.
It's a dark, dank, and cold night in the field. Yuck.
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