both work and fun stuff on the weekend
Aug. 10th, 2020 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaOn Friday night I had thought to go to bed at a reasonable hour, so that I could get up early and attend the Calontir virtual bardic before my video call with my sisters. Like all good plans, it changed a bit in the execution...
I put down the computer at 21:00 and tided up a bit before starting a 35 minute yoga session around 22:00, which meant that I was in bed by 23:00. Whereupon I was suddenly inspired to do more of my data processing that needs to happen before I can write my first paper for my archaeology degree, so I got back up and started working. Since it was late I wasn't hungry, so I just kept working. Around 03:30 I connected to that bardic, but since I was working I didn't contribute, just listened whilst I worked. At 06:40 I decided that I should quit work for the day and get ready for the call with my sisters, at 07:00. We talked till 09:00, and then I went to bed, and slept nearly five hours.
I had breakfast and second breakfast pretty much back to back, and then E came over to tend the bee hives. I had thought to go out and pick berries, so decided that this time I could go with E to have a look. I in addition to my coveralls and boots, and E's extra special bee-keeping jacket and wire head covering, I wore my nettle-harvesting gloves, since they have long cuffs and have thick leather palms. I hadn't realised just how much thinner the leather is on the back of those gloves, till one of the bees stung my finger right through the glove. It didn't get very far into my finger, and it only hurt about like getting a splinter, but I still went in to the house to look at it with a magnifying glass to see if there was any stinger remaining (by the time I got to the house it was out), and I squeezed out some clear fluids from the tiny puncture wound and washed it.
Then, since bee-keeping protection is also good mosquito protection, we went down and picked some black currants. We each managed to mostly fill a 12 liter bucket in the 2 hours we were out. I took off my right glove whilst picking, which was same hand that got stung, and, of course, some mosquitoes managed to bite it as I worked, which meant that hand was feeling a bit itchy by the time I went in. E and I hung out for another couple of hours after she left, and then I did a 40 minute yoga session, and managed to get to bed by 23:00.
I woke the first time a bit after 04:00, inspired to work, so I did. Got tired again and lay down for a nap a bit after 07:00, but only rested about 15 minutes before deciding to work some more. Then at 09:30 I was again sleepy, but this time I slept for two hours, finally getting up for good around noon.
Around 14:00 E returned with the plan to pick some nettles, but first we drove out to Storheden (the big-box store area) to buy E a food dehydrator to use on the nettles. The first store was out, so we tried a couple of more before the purchase, and then I stopped by the grocery store to pick up a couple of things whilst E checked the garden store next door.
By the time we got back to the house I was hungry, so she picked nettles and I harvested another large squash, some broccoli, and a bunch of garden greens and cooked it up with a bit of dhal, then I mixed in a bit of left over wild rice, and called it good. But then I realised that it was well after 17:00, and I had missed the court for virtual Raglan. Oops!
After E went home I logged into the rest of Virtual raglan, working more as I listened to the play, and then participated in the bardic. I quit working when Raglan finished, around midnight my time, but then, rather than being sensible and doing yoga and going to bed I spent more than an hour reading FB and DW, and am now typing this up. However, having now brought you all current, I think I had better do that yoga and get some sleep.
I put down the computer at 21:00 and tided up a bit before starting a 35 minute yoga session around 22:00, which meant that I was in bed by 23:00. Whereupon I was suddenly inspired to do more of my data processing that needs to happen before I can write my first paper for my archaeology degree, so I got back up and started working. Since it was late I wasn't hungry, so I just kept working. Around 03:30 I connected to that bardic, but since I was working I didn't contribute, just listened whilst I worked. At 06:40 I decided that I should quit work for the day and get ready for the call with my sisters, at 07:00. We talked till 09:00, and then I went to bed, and slept nearly five hours.
I had breakfast and second breakfast pretty much back to back, and then E came over to tend the bee hives. I had thought to go out and pick berries, so decided that this time I could go with E to have a look. I in addition to my coveralls and boots, and E's extra special bee-keeping jacket and wire head covering, I wore my nettle-harvesting gloves, since they have long cuffs and have thick leather palms. I hadn't realised just how much thinner the leather is on the back of those gloves, till one of the bees stung my finger right through the glove. It didn't get very far into my finger, and it only hurt about like getting a splinter, but I still went in to the house to look at it with a magnifying glass to see if there was any stinger remaining (by the time I got to the house it was out), and I squeezed out some clear fluids from the tiny puncture wound and washed it.
Then, since bee-keeping protection is also good mosquito protection, we went down and picked some black currants. We each managed to mostly fill a 12 liter bucket in the 2 hours we were out. I took off my right glove whilst picking, which was same hand that got stung, and, of course, some mosquitoes managed to bite it as I worked, which meant that hand was feeling a bit itchy by the time I went in. E and I hung out for another couple of hours after she left, and then I did a 40 minute yoga session, and managed to get to bed by 23:00.
I woke the first time a bit after 04:00, inspired to work, so I did. Got tired again and lay down for a nap a bit after 07:00, but only rested about 15 minutes before deciding to work some more. Then at 09:30 I was again sleepy, but this time I slept for two hours, finally getting up for good around noon.
Around 14:00 E returned with the plan to pick some nettles, but first we drove out to Storheden (the big-box store area) to buy E a food dehydrator to use on the nettles. The first store was out, so we tried a couple of more before the purchase, and then I stopped by the grocery store to pick up a couple of things whilst E checked the garden store next door.
By the time we got back to the house I was hungry, so she picked nettles and I harvested another large squash, some broccoli, and a bunch of garden greens and cooked it up with a bit of dhal, then I mixed in a bit of left over wild rice, and called it good. But then I realised that it was well after 17:00, and I had missed the court for virtual Raglan. Oops!
After E went home I logged into the rest of Virtual raglan, working more as I listened to the play, and then participated in the bardic. I quit working when Raglan finished, around midnight my time, but then, rather than being sensible and doing yoga and going to bed I spent more than an hour reading FB and DW, and am now typing this up. However, having now brought you all current, I think I had better do that yoga and get some sleep.