Daily activism, saving the landfill, bergamot boxes

Wednesday morning I realized voting is on soon for renewed funding for a lot of things including Homeland Security which contains ICE.  I messaged both senators to urge them to work to defund and abolish HS, ICE included.

The day's walk took me past this dumpster with useful stuff I don't need. 

I put it up on Freecycle with directions on how to find it. There are more items than you see, evidently someone unenlightened, moving out, who isn't considering the optics, or the options.

Tuesday  when I wrote my post I was a bit tired,  full day, and plenty of material already, so I postponed the usual account of the subjects the knitting group ranged over.

Catching up: growing cotton, using whistles, local charity shop, downed trees in storm, Christmas markets, gluhwein, poutine, pelvic floor health, Korean churches, spinning wheels, soft toys, cars, creative playthings, large boxes, artefact restoration, lost violins and more. 

And here's the bergamot boxes 

The one on the left cracked as I was taking it off the glass, but I can repair it when I do the finishing. These are more brittle than the lemons were. I can maybe match the outer ones as one box, the inner ones as another. There was a gust of scent when I took them off the glasses, lovely.

Happy day everyone, say all the things! She does anyway, sez Ted and Big Ursy 

Pond walk, timely alert, and a new (old) seasonal craft idea, involving lemons

I was out Friday morning, cold but the sunshine made it great walking to the pond.

Great beech tree tracery and a large stormdowned branch to come home for added decor.

I hadn't checked on Sally Pointer recently -- older blogistas will remember my adventures in Neolithic crafts like cordage, which  I learned from her. I noticed a Neolithic reference in a blog, remembered her, and went to check what she's up to.

She went to Spain, I think, on vacation recently, and did a bit of orange related craft, bergamot boxes, using windfallen fruit from street orange trees. 

You can definitely guess what happened here next. She shows how to make them, starting with fresh fruit, then how to decorate them. This isn't Neolithic, nearer Elizabethan, but she was on vacation!

 

So I went to my current Misfits order and added

The fruit needs to be thick walled, and I have had these before and noticed they had much thicker walls than juicier lemons. The oranges available are thinner walled more fragile varieties, so lemons it is. Watch this space. 

Meanwhile we are under a Santa Watch

Happy day, everyone, look out for flying oranges and Santas.