silk dress

After our trip to Cocoa Beach, Florida last year, I had picked up some flower print fabrics to make myself dresses for the beach.  Or bicycling.  Or skateboarding.  Or ......  It will not work very well for snow boarding.  It just is a little light.  I had gotten one done using a the pattern from a dress I had picked up in Cocoa Beach.  This is using the a-line pattern I have been using for most of my dresses recently.

I finished it today after work.  I had to put it on and try out my newest skateboard.  The one with the blue totem animals.  I like how it flutters around my knees even though it is a bit long.  I could shorten it an inch or two.  I might.  I might not.

The leaves in the fabric match my helmet and socks.  I did not try to do that at all but it did make me smile.

I admit that my concentration is basically shot.  Between the pain in my shoulders and missing Small Mister, my attention span once I get home from work is very small.  I use it up all at work.  I am doing things in very small steps and my hands seem to want to be in yarn.  That is okay.

The skateboarding makes me smile too!

skateboard part of boardhead

I have been down sizing stuff for awhile now, but when it comes to boards, that is not true.  I am a boardhead.  On my birthday, I bought this board after surfing and then road it to the library.  It is great fun!  You should see the looks the old lady gets on her skateboard in a dress with a bright yellow helmet!  And the people at work think I am absolutely crazy to be on a skateboard.  But the old gentleman on the street thought it was absolutely rad.

My Beloved has been talking about his favorite deck is starting to detoriate.  But then he will do 13 miles at a time.  Time to go to the local skate shop.  I have been looking at pintails and then found this one.  I love the art work!  And it reminds me of home on the mountain.

I wanted to take it out tonight but it was it was time for working on my shoulders.  The skate shop is a great place to talk about rehab without going under a knife so I have things to work on now.  I am sore.  Tomorrow morning may be interesting.

There may be another board picture soon because I have another deck coming.  The one we experimented on building but I actually sent an email to the shaper and he is making me one.  We are still going to try to build one ourselves. 

I need to keep think snow boards but it is so hard here.  At least I can ride a skateboard when there is no surf or snow!

another scrappy afghan

When I finished the first scrappy afghan at Christmas, I realized I had a lot of extra granny squares.  Since then, I have been making more and putting together another afghan.  That means there are two afghans for three trucks now.  I still have yarn left.  In some ways, I feel like my scrappy afghans do not even touch my bits and pieces.  But, instead of starting another of these right away, I am making a scrappy sweater for Small Mister.  It is not orange, which is his favorite, but it will be good to play in the mud and rain.

garden

I spent time in the garden this morning.  The Small Mister and the Tall Short Person have moved out of state and I am very sad.  I found the time in the garden helps.  More meditation.

I dug.  I weeded.  I have flowers and vegetables up that need the weeds moved from around them.  I am also still planting seeds.  More vegetables and flowers.  We had one salad for dinner this week where all the lettuces came from.  I noticed today that the kale and chard are growing rampant.  I have some Veronica broccoli (or cauliflower depending on who you ask) ready to pick soon.

Another space where I need to spend time in every day.  Lots of time for mediation and a moving meditation at that.  I have always been more the chop wood, carry water type.

fiber test

I used my drop spindle and spun the fiber I was given for my birthday.  Just little bits of fiber to see if we might be interested in the Karakul goats.  

The grey is softer then the white, but as my Beloved said, not as soft as we expected.  The search will continue.  I am hoping to buy a fleece or two of Shetland sheep.  I have heard that they are easy lambers and their wool is very soft. 

This experimentation is fun, but I admit that if I skip of day of spinning, either with my drop spindle or my spinning wheel, I feel like I do not catch up.  I do not mind because I find it very meditative but I do feel like I need more hours in the day.