Persuasion, knitting, Textiles and Tea

 Last night's movie was a 2007 BBC production of Persuasion, very well done though some iconic dialog didn't make it. 

Nobody rivals Ciaran Hinds as the earlier hero, but Anne Elliot was great.

There seems to be an endless supply of Austen movies around.

Today's the launching of the new and improved hearing in a group, first time since I got them. We'll see. 

So here I'm reporting later that I had a very good time at the Tuesday Knitting Group, hearing ALL the group chat yay, which ranged from temari balls to soft sculpture to dance improv to hearing, to spindle and spurtzleur spinning, the spiral of the universe, lip-reading, Portugal, freeform embroidery, and a lot more.

This young artist is riffing off Temari balls, very freeform, she's a dancer and teacher and fiber artist 

while socks are happening, also playing with spindles 

Lovely afternoon, then there was Textiles and Tea with Deb Essen, who weaves with everything from pinlooms to large floor looms, dyeing her threads and making kits from her own threads and patterns.

As you see, she's versatile! 

Then Handsome Son arrived, enjoyed several Figgy Demerara pieces, and a pot of tea, and convo ranged over current politics,  the state of the washing machine valve shutoffs, health, Uber, meat, food safety, personal transportation and ants.

He obligingly took my worn out lounge chair from the deck to the dumpster, and took his leave.

Another great Tuesday for the books.

Happy day, everyone, Weave On! More computer assisted, art

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Labor Day weekend, here already?

 Mutts observes the day

Seems only fair.

Yesterday because of the unexpected free afternoon, I roasted the chicken and the rest of the yellow potatoes. 

Chicken stuffed with fresh sage, thyme and lemon balm. Butter and olive oil, coarse seasalt outside, you see it here after I did the leg test for doneness. That was a fine supper last night.

Now I'm set. Sliced with pasta salad, chicken salad, curried chicken, ending in soup. I made mayo again, just a cup, enough for now.

I've been spinning with the spurtzleur again.

This waiting period may involve quite a bit of production, one way and another. Last evening's audio pod with friends was very helpful and supportive. They didn't quite understand how it's easier for me to go in alone, for the retest of,  better than with company. It's how I roll.  I'm a solitary person in some ways. 

But I did promise them to  recruit Handsome Son to come if we find I need treatment, to the first appointment, to make notes, because I won't be able to listen and think. The hearing aids are a blessing right now! At least I'm catching much more of what's being said. So there's that.

Today's walk yielded evidence of recent wind and rain bringing down white oak foliage 

And a berried plant that might be sumac or not 

And, at the pond a flock of wild ducks swimming in formation, about a dozen, here's the front group 

One of the males gave a few warning quacks and right after this shot, the flock flew away, wheeling around the trees to land further away on the course.

Speaking of production, as  I was before I rudely interrupted myself, here's a couple of the many, some prizewinning, images I created in my early-adopter computer assisted art period, waaaaay back.  

I had to program, using early software, two screens,a keyboard and a stylus, not just click here and there. This was cutting edge stuff then, I think in the mid-eighties. Uphill both ways, you kids. 

Only two printers in the country could print this, one in Colorado, one in California, not available to the likes of me.  So I worked with a camera set into the computer system, and fed in 35mm film for photo processing. The processing staff at the shop were intrigued and baffled by how I made the images, and became fans! Too funny.

Full credit to the two art professors who set up this complex station, Frank Rivera and Rudy name escapes me, and who signed off on letting me work in the computer lab any hours, way beyond those assigned to my class. 

Happy day, everyone! Enjoy whatever displacement activity you get caught up in. Pro tip: everything is displacement activity. Unless you're running for office.