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Can I have a few more days in my week?
...Or fewer long naps?
I woke up a good hour before the dawn light came on this morning, so I took advantage of the extra time to finally unload the Frostheim stuff from the car that I picked up from the storage unit on Saturday morning. Then I opted to drive in to work so as to have a bit more time in my day than I would if I walked. This was a good thing, since it reminded me that the "check breaks" light had come on this weekend when I was on my way to storage, which meant that I actually called the shop to make an appointment to have it, and the "check engine" light (which has been on for a while now) looked at. They said to bring it in tomorrow, which means that I will get a half an hour walk between the shop and the office.
Given that I had woken up early I wasn't so surprised when I started feeling really sleepy around 11:00, and thinking of all that still needs doing for Norrskensfest, and feeling bad about not yet having written the paragraphs for Karen yet for our "please let us analyze your artifacts" letter, I decided to call it an early day and went home, thinking I would take a short nap and then be useful.
However, when I went outside I noticed that it was a lovely early winter day, with lots of bright sunshine that wasn't quite melting the pretty, if thin, layer of snow on the ground, despite the fact that the temperature was right at freezing. Therefore when I got home I decided that it would be wise to spend a bit more time working on filling in the trench in the driveway, so instead of heading straight to bed I changed into wool and a pair of coveralls and went right back outside. First I tried to see if I could get up any more of the dirt that had come out of the trench and has frozen to the ground. I little did come up, but in blocky chunks that didn't really make good fill, and there wasn't so much that we hadn't managed to get loose and into the trench yesterday.
Therefore I went to the big pile of dirt left next to the hole in the ground by the road, where the internet cable comes out of the trench they put in and filled last week, ready to head to our house. Sure enough, that pile, while a little crusty on the surface, was still nice and dig-able in the middle, since it hasn't been cold enough to freeze deeply yet. Therefore I got the wheelbarrow and took enough to fill in the biggest holes in the trench across the driveway (when one removes so many large rocks from a trench it is no surprise that the remaining dirt isn't enough to re-fill the hole). I should have also worked on the part of the trench between our driveway and the house, but see about about being sleepy.
Therefore I went in and lay down for what I hoped would be a half an hour nap. Nearly three hours later I finally manged to get up. Since then I managed to cook myself some dinner (desert first, since life is uncertain: raspberry "ice cream" made by running 250 g of raspberries, 1 avocado, and a teaspoon of vanilla sugar in the food processor (this was enough to fill five silicon muffin cups, four of which are in the freezer to eat another day), followed by a mini-oven pancake made by warming a tiny cast iron pan in the oven, beating 1 egg with 1/4 cup milk (or, in today's case, yoghurt mixed with water), 1/4 cup flour, and a dash of salt, then melting 1 T butter in the pan and adding the batter to bake for 7 to 10 minutes), and then worked on the prize for the Norrskensbågskytt(Northern Light's Archer) .
I have done the sewing and edge embroidery on this hood, my apprentice, Ena, did the northern lights weaving, and several Frostheim people embroidered the archery themed patches. Tonight I managed to sew those patches to the hood, and now it needs only a bit more of the edge embroidery before it is done:
Now it is only just after 9pm, and I am tired again, so time to put the computer down, do my yoga, and hope to accomplish more tomorrow.
I woke up a good hour before the dawn light came on this morning, so I took advantage of the extra time to finally unload the Frostheim stuff from the car that I picked up from the storage unit on Saturday morning. Then I opted to drive in to work so as to have a bit more time in my day than I would if I walked. This was a good thing, since it reminded me that the "check breaks" light had come on this weekend when I was on my way to storage, which meant that I actually called the shop to make an appointment to have it, and the "check engine" light (which has been on for a while now) looked at. They said to bring it in tomorrow, which means that I will get a half an hour walk between the shop and the office.
Given that I had woken up early I wasn't so surprised when I started feeling really sleepy around 11:00, and thinking of all that still needs doing for Norrskensfest, and feeling bad about not yet having written the paragraphs for Karen yet for our "please let us analyze your artifacts" letter, I decided to call it an early day and went home, thinking I would take a short nap and then be useful.
However, when I went outside I noticed that it was a lovely early winter day, with lots of bright sunshine that wasn't quite melting the pretty, if thin, layer of snow on the ground, despite the fact that the temperature was right at freezing. Therefore when I got home I decided that it would be wise to spend a bit more time working on filling in the trench in the driveway, so instead of heading straight to bed I changed into wool and a pair of coveralls and went right back outside. First I tried to see if I could get up any more of the dirt that had come out of the trench and has frozen to the ground. I little did come up, but in blocky chunks that didn't really make good fill, and there wasn't so much that we hadn't managed to get loose and into the trench yesterday.
Therefore I went to the big pile of dirt left next to the hole in the ground by the road, where the internet cable comes out of the trench they put in and filled last week, ready to head to our house. Sure enough, that pile, while a little crusty on the surface, was still nice and dig-able in the middle, since it hasn't been cold enough to freeze deeply yet. Therefore I got the wheelbarrow and took enough to fill in the biggest holes in the trench across the driveway (when one removes so many large rocks from a trench it is no surprise that the remaining dirt isn't enough to re-fill the hole). I should have also worked on the part of the trench between our driveway and the house, but see about about being sleepy.
Therefore I went in and lay down for what I hoped would be a half an hour nap. Nearly three hours later I finally manged to get up. Since then I managed to cook myself some dinner (desert first, since life is uncertain: raspberry "ice cream" made by running 250 g of raspberries, 1 avocado, and a teaspoon of vanilla sugar in the food processor (this was enough to fill five silicon muffin cups, four of which are in the freezer to eat another day), followed by a mini-oven pancake made by warming a tiny cast iron pan in the oven, beating 1 egg with 1/4 cup milk (or, in today's case, yoghurt mixed with water), 1/4 cup flour, and a dash of salt, then melting 1 T butter in the pan and adding the batter to bake for 7 to 10 minutes), and then worked on the prize for the Norrskensbågskytt
I have done the sewing and edge embroidery on this hood, my apprentice, Ena, did the northern lights weaving, and several Frostheim people embroidered the archery themed patches. Tonight I managed to sew those patches to the hood, and now it needs only a bit more of the edge embroidery before it is done:
Now it is only just after 9pm, and I am tired again, so time to put the computer down, do my yoga, and hope to accomplish more tomorrow.