I am working from home today, thankfully. We have a heat advisory since it's going to be 90F with lots of humidity. Yesterday I was in the field weeding things and drenched in sweat. I was sweating faster than it evaporated even with a breeze, so I was just wet. Work meeting last night too, it was a long day so I'm very glad for inside day today.
F was out of town for the long weekend and I was taking care of her cats. They were the normal tiny weirdos they were, running away but also wanting the treats I gave them. Only goof was that I forgot to refill their water for three days. They were down to the dregs once I remembered, so they hadn't run out but I felt bad.
I've been trying to get into the woods more and I'm succeeding. Went for two walks this week by myself, just going along the ridge path. Other than the sheep flies and mosquitos, it's lovely. I dropped the chainsaw off to get serviced on Sunday, so I'll found out if there's an actual problem or it's just user error. Then hopefully sometime soon I can actually start taking trees down, starting with the small ones along the tree line near the house. I will be putting up some fencing around the garden soon hopefully. Due to the trees needing to come down and the straight up rock under a small layer of dirt, trying to figure out how to bury t posts was baffling me. But F suggested concrete buckets and so the buckets have arrived. I'm going to buy concrete and more t posts in the next week or so, and then I can start laying things out. Because the yard is so sloped, I need to cut panels of the fencing anyway to prevent it from having big bows. So it will be a moveable fence. I also want to lay some landscape fabric down in a couple of spots to kill some perennial weeds. My garden this year is going to be pathetic and I don't have the energy to care that much. Oh well.
Next house project will be the balcony lighting since it just doesn't work. I need to buy two lights, then tear out all of the wiring and lights (because they just ran regular wire outside. just exposed. the birds have pecked holes in the covering), re-run all the cabling with actual conduit covered wire and mount the new light switch spot and lights. I ordered the wiring book my dad has since I really like the diagrams but it's currently somewhere in the mail. This is going to take me a couple weeks to actually do because of everything else going on. Plus I need another person around if I'm going to be up on ladders in strange places.
Mara can't do that hill into the woods anymore and she doesn't really want to go in the swamp either. But I think that's more due to the fact that the woodchucks smell really really good and she wants to find and eat them so bad, so she gets distracted.
( elderly pet stuff )I found a brown bat in the kitchen sink this morning and turned the faucet on it before I saw it. It's a baby I think, pretty small and it seemed confused. I picked it up in a towel and took it outside. F has had bats in the upstairs, but this is the first in the downstairs.
I finished my knitted sweater up and another 4oz of spinning fiber. Weaving is on hold until the heddles I ordered arrive, I got that project breamed on and then realized I was 200 heddles short of what I needed. Ordered texsolv heddles, which lots of people swear by, so we'll see. I'm working on casting on a jersey sweater from
this book, doing math to get all the patterns right with cabling and things. I also learned how to knit backwards last night while I was working on my swatch, which is technically right handed since I originally taught myself to knit left handed. So now I can knit back and forth on something instead of flipping it to purl or swatching in the round. This isn't that useful but it amuses me.
I keep meaning to do some fleece processing but failing, same with natural dyeing. Ah well. I want to get an outdoor area set up for the dyeing, just need to find a good spot and actually do it.
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