I don’t have any exciting, new, fiber-y pictures or stories to tell you today. I spent most of my time in the kitchen this weekend, and just got a couple rows done on my Peacock shawl. I haven’t gotten any spinning done, though I do have three bobbins full of singles that I could ply together. I’m kind of in spinning limbo while I wait for my new wheel to arrive . . . it’s not worth starting a fresh project on the Ashford if I’m going to want to be using the Lendrum at (hopefully) the end of the week . . . and yet, since I do at least have plying I could do, I’m reluctant to actually finish that and have “nothing.” Do you know what I mean? Kind of finishing a task 10-15 minutes before it’s time to leave work for the day–not really worth starting anything new, and yet too much time to waste and too much to skip out early . . . so, what do you do?

I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on Mom’s (and my) embroidery, which is sort of getting me in the mood to do some sewing again . . . this could be dangerous! I haven’t done any embroidery in years–about 1999, when I got Katy–because there was no way to do that around a chewing, curious puppy. (No safe way, anyway, because those needles can be sharp!) And then, I haven’t found a project I want to do badly enough to set aside the knitting and now-spinning thing. What I’d really like to do is re-create another painting, like I did with the Carl Larssen one–I had SO much fun finding the right threads and the right stitches for each section–but there just aren’t any other paintings I love that much. And, of course, if I really get itchy to pick up a “regular” needle, there’s always that poor quilt crumpled in the corner by the chair!

My nose was so stuffy last night, I resorted to taking a Claritin–something I try to do as seldom as possible. (I do not like feeling medicated!) I took it right before I went to sleep, and of course, there’s caffeine in there . . . enough that it sometimes makes my hands shake. It didn’t keep me awake (once I’m asleep almost nothing wakes me up!), but I had the most vivid dreams last night!

One in particular was quite interesting–it was basically a conversation between myself and a whole bunch of other bloggers–using both the computer and in-person meetings to carry on a single conversation from one person to the next to the next . . . as you can imagine, the conversation didn’t really GO too far with that kind of time lag between each person’s contribution, and with so many people participating, but it was the oddest thing . . . weird though the dream was, it felt so natural to be having electronic conversations with good friends that I hadn’t actually met . . . because, of course, I do that every day . . . with you! Really interesting.

  Here’s Chappy’s opinion of today’s weather. Cold, wet, rainy . . . really very rainy. Definitely no walks today! As if it weren’t bad enough that it was Monday to begin with.

And, prayers for the victims of this latest, Indian Ocean earthquake . . . thank God it at least did not generate a tsunami this time.

Does anyone realize? The last one (big one, that generated that Tsunami) was the day after Christmas, and this also-quite-big earthquake is the day after Easter? Let me think . . . what is the next, big Christian holiday? I think I might hide under the bed the following day . . .

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