Lovely day after

 Wednesday was a joyful day, great election results. Even the sky agreed, and the cheerful ducks on the pond 

I finally wore the neck gaiter I designed and made ages ago, in Tunisian crochet with Dorset buttons all different.

Buttoned up it covers my neck and chin, great for a windy day. Two bottom buttons undone and it lies like a shawl.

Handsome Son visited, enjoyed three kinds of cake with tea, and we strategized about the new cost of his health insurance, since the subsidies have not been renewed. On the plus side he can go to a lower level plan, still expensive, because he's fit, no chronic ailments, only one medication.

But it's still tough. He needed that subsidy.

And I did some visible mending on a favorite pair of socks I didn't make.

I used embroidery floss because the socks are a fine knit. They're more of a putty color than here, with bright orange darning. My repairs are always under the foot so they never show in use. 

The general mood Wednesday among the people I hang out with was buoyant, to put it mildly. I planned to do no resistance, but I did message Schumer to stay strong, no surrender.

Happy day everyone, e is on a good health planning path, Mitch landed safely in NY, all's well, sez Ted and Big Ursy.

AARP at it again, chair yoga, Misfits

After an email invitation, I just signed up for a session of online chair yoga, in a couple of weeks

I do like being grouped with desk workers, I feel less decrepit.

 Meanwhile I thought I'd better get a bit of training before I tackle an hour long session. So I tracked down my favorite fitness duo, mother and daughter, for a fifteen minute session.

they're great because the trainer daughter shows wonderful form and her mother shows the nearest most older people can get, very encouraging to those of us who are quite stiff.

This was a good idea, showing me I need to improve my stamina, since the fifteen minutes were quite taxing, but will be less so each day. At least that's the idea.

This is going into my morning rotation. I still do a couple of eight pieces of silk, and shoulder exercises just to keep functional. And walking. Gentle everything is the mantra at this point. This is a yoga-brag-free zone.

And it's a mending time, the invisible kind this time, repairing, again, the mock turtle neckline of this favorite Land's End cotton sweater

It's the seam joining the neck to the body that gets worn out, don't we all.

Bought in a garage sale about thirty years ago and still worth repairing, along with the other two sweaters long since converted into jackets. I didn't do fancy visible work because I like the simplicity of this sweater.

I put together a seasoned flour mix to coat, enrobe (maybe that's just for chocolate) the cod we all snorted about last week 

I ground enough coriander seeds for a small container, then in the midst of this 

Misfits arrived 

Change of pace, here comes coffee so I can have an occasional cafe au lait, since I can't seem to get cocoa at the moment.

The red onions are to pickle for a thing next week.

And I can't bear to use valuable dyeing material for stock. So it's in the freezer for the next time I feel like dyeing.

The scallions are to plant the root ends and see if I can get a homegrown supply. The rest is chopped and frozen, to just eat.

This was a small order with a lot of plans. The Little Order That Could.

Happy day everyone, I do all the things so you don't have to.