{"id":221,"date":"2008-09-20T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T22:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-09-20T17:28:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T22:28:19","slug":"a-day-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"A day to myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah… a Saturday at home alone. Nick is off doing SCA stuff, and I’m here doing… whatever I want!<\/p>\n

After a lazy morning, I put on Amanda Palmer<\/a>‘s new album, and set to it. I’ve cleaned the kitchen and put away all the crap in the dining room so I can do some sewing. I didn’t throw anything away, but I did think about it. We got new bins for the pet food, freeing up a large drawer. (Why yes, I do have kitchen drawers large enough for a 40-lb bag of dogfood, AND 15 lb of catfood, and room left over.) I love putting things away. We have too much stuff, but as long as it can go somewhere<\/i> it isn’t so bad.<\/p>\n

The cleaning and sorting alternated with the dyeing.<\/p>\n

\"dyeing\"<\/p>\n

Today it was Blue-faced Leicester. Two batches are in the oven, two cooling on the stove, and two rinsing in the sink. <\/p>\n

\"dyeing\"<\/p>\n

I appear to have mastered the essential rule of dyeing: Don’t mess with the wool.<\/i> I won’t know for certain until it’s dry, but it looks like I did a good job and they’re all still nicely fluffy and not a bit felted. *crosses fingers*<\/p>\n

It’s a beautiful day here, but moving steadily toward autumn, so I geared up in my exploring clothes<\/a>, and braved the tomato jungle. (Not me, but excellent exploring clothes, and they aren’t even black!)<\/p>\n

\"Tomato<\/p>\n

Except for the lingering aroma of tomato vines I emerged unscathed, and it was a profitable expedition.<\/p>\n

\"Large<\/p>\n

I brought back a big bunch of basil and parsley. I’m thinking of roasting the tomatoes with the herbs and some olive oil – after the wool is out of the oven – and freezing whatever I don’t eat tonight. (I have oregano and thyme too, but those require shoes for retrieval. Um, so much for my claim of explorer gear, I suppose.)<\/p>\n

I was (mildly) scolded for having a LiveJournal page<\/a> but not using it, so I installed a WordPress plugin<\/a> that is supposed to echo this to that. Comments are enabled both places. (But my main page<\/a> is nicer, honest.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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