Thursday thoughts

in which our plucky heroine has been keeping busy...

Probably the best thing this past week was Sunday when I gave an online presentation about "Objects of Affection - a 100 day drawing project". As it is a topic I'm quite familiar with, I sat down at the worktable Sunday morning to turn my outline (and summary of the talk I gave three years ago "what is a 100 day project and why you might want to do one") into six pages of coherent notes, then gave talk at noon. It was well received and generated plenty of discussion, which are my goals...

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~ Eryngium giganteum? ~

despite my attempts to identify what variety of plant this flower belongs to, it is still a mystery, though the internets did let me know it is some flavor of Eryngium aka "sea holly" My best guess is Eryngium giganteum based on the light coloring. It is in fact very spikey, though unrelated to holly the tree.

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This morning managed over two hours of yardwork effort in the backyard, including pruning hacking back feral grape overgrowth, (which made obvious how prolific the grape bunches are this year) and more string trimmer effort around the apple tree. Also managed to pull up enough of the huge really tall weeds to fill the remaining space in the wheelie bin. The grass pollen was so bad that despite my "yard armor" (knee high boots, leggings, long sleeves, denim pinafore, gloves, hat, and P100 mask) and immediate shower and hair wash when returning indoors, compulsive sneezing was the result.

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a new Becky Chambers book will be released this coming October

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All the experimental unders have now have supplemental elastic added to their waistbands, and are much more secure than they were with only cotton lycra. (probably jersey with a stronger lycra content would have worked) Have added a note to the pattern about the best length to use for that particular type of elastic, and it might be worth checking out what other elastics WAWAK has on offer...   

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June SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	Babs brooch	thinned apples	greenwaste bin
2	5th god lino block	replace elastic	recycle bin
3	5th god corner block	replace more elastics	-
4	enamels for John	-	-
5	tie-dye pillowcases	-	-
6	x	x	x
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x

today's gratitudes -
- cold air from heat pump
- brine fermented pink daikon pickle: tasty and really pretty!
- Podiatry as a new closer location, so will be only one bus line away instead of two starting in September

Time of Isolation - Day 2169