I came out of the Earth Day online rally last night with new information on what's happening in Newark to stop further pollution, and links to help. There was encouragement to speak up, every voice matters, from distinguished national weather scholars and officials from earlier admins when the gummint took the environment seriously. It was an evening well spent.
Sleep having decided to blow where it listeth, I woke at 2am ready to go. So I made a cup of coffee, slice of olive bread and downloaded Margareta Magnusson's book on old age. She's the author of Swedish Death cleaning.
She wrote
during the pandemic, when she was 86, and a good bit frailer than I was at that age.
But she had a resolute good humor about difficulties. Always an artist, she was interested in so much, even when her physical horizons shrank. I just checked and found she died only a couple of weeks ago at 91. She had an interesting life well lived.
It was a quick read, after which I slept till the reasonably hour of 7am.
Today's Misfits, so here's the bag outside.
At the moment the boxes and ice blocks are going to Gary.
Meanwhile, I needed lunch and made red lentil tofu, cooked in a sauce of scallions, soy sauce, Worcestershire, apple cider vinegar and ketchup. This was so good. Enough for two more meals. From half a cup of red lentils, one cup water, salt.
Plain mixed green salad, plenty of flavor in the sauce.
And, before Misfits, came the loom!!
They're serious about beginners -- it arrived ready threaded and started!
So maybe I'll do something with this before I get onto the pattern weaving. Or maybe I'll adapt and make it into my first patterned band, whoa. As you see it has multicolored warp threads. There are possibilities there. And the heddle is a different dent (warp threads per inch) so it doesn't duplicate the one I have.
This is a nice deal, heddle and shuttle included, aside from the work they did, in case the buyer didn't know how. Maybe this is self defense against multiple calls for help!
Then Misfits finally arrived, Ramon, on the afternoon shift, driving a nonpink truck.
Cans for the food pantry, enough bread for the foreseeable future as well as the loaf I found in the freezer when I was in there for something else.
Fusilli because I like curly pasta, lovely Envy apples, they've been excellent lately, potatoes ready to parboil for roasting, Bananaz to ripen a day or two, yogurt to go with them.
Lovely brown eggs for all kinds of plans, including egg 'n chips -- fries-- quick meal, chocolate covered almonds because times are haaaard, and I expect they're nutritious.
What a great day.
A bonus -- I'm packing a small framed artwork to ship, and having a bit of a time finding packing materials. So the bubble wrap from the eggs and the packing paper from the loom will be pressed into service.
Happy day everyone, do all the things then lie down.
Still mine, dammit.
