Tuesday tidbits

in which our plucky heroine keeps making incremental progress...

Repairs and refurbishments: the biggest one is getting all four of the wire cloches fitted with end caps, so I can renew the salad table. Took me several days of faffing about with the extra-heavy plastic mesh, but with luck it will keep the contents safe from squirrel predation.

I dropped a knife while putting it away in the knife block on the wall, and it hit the lid of the beautiful ceramic canister and snapped the knob clean off! Fortunately I had some epoxy in the big box of glue, and was able to reattach it.

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~ creativity challenge ~

Somehow, I misplaced my otter face needle book, which has been a friendly helper for many a year. (and I am really sad about losing my favorite sewing needles, that lived inside the otter). So, I started making myself a new one, as seen above.

Had mostly the right colors of felt, decided to add a pocket to the back of the needle book, with some strands of kelp appliqued on, but alas, only had fairly large black buttons for the otter eyes. New needle book will be much more kawaii than old one. Completion is on hold until suitable snap fastener can be acquired, as the only ones on hand currently are the wee little dolly sized snaps

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I continue my efforts to learn to play the harp, today was online lesson #3. I have no inate musical ability, and despite being fairly dexterous with fine motor control, the needed hand coordination for playing music is entirely different than anything else I do, and my lack of anything resembling a lap makes holding the harp in place a challenge. Nonethesless persistence will be a good thing, and it is, fortunately, an instrument that cannot help but make lovely sounds, even when interfacing with the unskilled person.

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beauty in the time of isolation:

the heart of a poppy flower is a thing of great beauty
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I have had a walloping headache for most of today, for no reason I can divine. Ugh. No fever though. Been pushing water in case it was just me being slightly dehydrated, but nope. Thinking about taking Took some Tylenol, which toned it down a bit. I never get headaches, usually, unless I have a fever, which made this rather baffling, I am suspecting a combination of unrelieved stress and defective infrastructure

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May SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	teal knit tee for Nandina	repotted artichokes	taxes done
2	teal knit skirt for Nandina	computer zone shelf	yard waste bin
3	red/grey top for Nandina	cardboard back gate zone	recycle bin
4	red/print skirt for Nandina	pruned forsythia	-
5	setting for red Laurel	started cucumbers	-
6	samara earrings	backyard mowed	x
7	three baby baprons	Nandina's legs	x
8	two more baprons	woodchip back gate zone	x
9	teal/Mod top for Nandina	repot tiny tomato	x
10	striped knit dress for Nandina	repot strawberries	x
11	4 more Nandina clothes	repot peppers	x
12	Nandina schoolgirl pinafore	paracord loops for plants	x
13	tiny red rucksack	epoxy canister handle	x
14	x	end caps for cloches	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude - I have a Useful Bicycle Pump, that also works well for the tire on the wheelbarrow. The pump has a little moveable arrow on the pressure gauge, so as to make it easy to get to the correct pressure and not go too far. I like this feature very much

day 73 - year 2