progress on two fronts

[kareina]

I spent a good chunk of the daylight part of today outside doing things to get the yard ready for winter. I managed to trim the branches of the birch next to the earth cellar--now that we have put a bit of a hill next to it, the lowest branches were suddenly too low, and it wouldn't have been safe to do sledding on said hill once the snow comes, but now it will be (well, after I fix the hill a bit--there are still too many rocks sticking up). I also took the roots of the silverbeet and kale out of the raised garden beds and covered them for the winter. Then David and Caroline came over and he and I managed to sort the pile of scrap wood and logs that have been living under the eaves of one of the sheds for a few years. Now the wood that is worth keeping is in the container, and the wood that is only firewood has been broken into reasonable sized bits and added to the wood pile. While we did that she packed more of her things to take to her apartment. It was nice to have them here for a few hours, but I have also been enjoying living mostly on my own. It will be interesting to see what their pattern is once they have finished the "moving in" part at the apartment.

After they went home I sat down and started work on the embroidery for the prize for the Norrskensbågskyttt (photo in the Frostheim group here), and next thing I knew six hours had elapsed. Oops.

Then, after posting a photo of the day's embroidery progress I spent more time than I should have reading stuff on FB before remembering I have a chatealines' report due next week, so I did that. Now it is after three in the morning, and I need to put down the computer, do my yoga, play my dulcimer, and do a bit of reading in the archaeological literature (because I define "day" as "before I go to sleep, and thus it is still Saturday in terms of doing these things "daily", which I am trying to do this month. (though when I am at Crown I will have to see if I can try playing some other sort of musical instrument, since I won't be able to take the dulcimer with me, since I am flying to Helsinki).