Wow . . . I can’t believe it has been two months since my last post, but it is time to get back to it. It’s time to get back to knitting and spinning and weaving, too, which have also been absent in my life. I feel at loose ends, kind of flapping in the breeze with no direction. I know starting some new projects will help ground me and give me something to capture my focus. I’m ready!
I do want to share a couple things with you, though. This is our big baby. It’s a smallish pumpkin — just over 32 pounds. There was a later one that was about half this size that we left behind, but it only had a couple stripes of orange with most of it still green. I don’t think it ever ripened, although I will get to see it in a couple days and still hold out a faint hope.
The next step is cutting up this big fruit and cooking it. I’m not really looking forward to the process, but there are calls for pie that cannot be ignored. The last pumpkin I cut up and cooked was grown by my son when he was 10 years old. It weighed 108 pounds. This one will be much easier than that one!
The other thing I accomplished was plying the yarn I spun for Le Tour de Fleece back in July. It is so lustrous and soft! It’s a Corriedale cross fiber and I love it. I just have to decide whether to dye it or leave it natural — leaning toward natural at this point since it is such a nice white– and what to make with it. I have 228 yards of it. The amazing thing was that the two skeins ended up exactly the same length. I just have to find a pattern that would look good in some very uneven yarn. Any ideas? I guess it could be used as just a part of a project, too.
AudioBook Blurb
I’ve been listening to On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouak lately. It’s the rough draft of the book with all the real names of the people in the book. It’s an amazing look at the Beat generation. I have to say, though, that at my age it seems so decadent and wasteful, this crazy, wild lifestyle. Even so, it continues to hold my attention with its honest, often crude, look at an intriguing time in history.
It makes me wonder if there will be another time like that in the next decade. I feel like our culture could use a good shaking up. I hope to see it happen.
That’s all I have for now, but I’ll be back to posting regularly again. Thanks for hanging in there with me!