Happy Easter if you celebrate, and Trans Visibility too which happens to coincide this year

Happy Easter, to those who celebrate. My own celebration will happen Wednesday when Handsome Son is free to come and make a dinner with me.

Here's my Easter display of my hand painted eggs, porcelain, cats, tiny cup and saucer with painted cockatiel eggs. Every year when I bring the tray down from its storage place, an egg gets broken. I've replaced the main part on the tray, so you won't notice. Spot the little wooden duckling!

 

Bottom left corner, little duckie by cast iron cat.

I hadn't intended this as a puzzle! But anyway running it by you again, after plaintive comments.

Meanwhile, the mourning doves did it again, made a sort of nest of grasses chucked around, on the ground, laid two eggs and abandoned the enterprise. Some predator, probably a bluejay, then attacked one egg.

Outside my daffodils are in full bloom everywhere, no idea why the pictured suddenly elongated like that.  Clowning around.

And at home I've been trying a pinloom idea, using whatever pins I could find, none available locally, to my surprise. The cardboard is the divider from the misfits box

 

and here's the result. I've put it here with the earlier weaving. Then I started another square with no particular object in mind, just the pleasure of weaving while I listened to pods and the current audio book

 Current ebook is this 

by an online friend, a headlong rush of a book, loads of fun, as is she

And a shoutout for Trans Visibility Day, which happens this year to fall on Easter, which seems like a hopeful omen.

Happy day everyone, enjoy whatever today is for you.

May The Fourth be with you

Today, here's the wish of the day*

*Written in Pitman. For those few who may need a translation: 

The Fourth of May is Star Wars Day. May the Force be with you.

And the last word from the Treasury Mog

On to less important things, yesterday was a knitting, weaving, spinning day. 

Sock Ministry sock, weaving of scarf/panel, and spinning of sari and other silk roving for future weaving in future panels.

I think the current weaving may be part of a bigger thing I've had in mind, a skirt with woven front and back panels, knitted shaped sides.  The idea is from Sarah Swett.  I'll use a mixture of artisan yarn and my handspun yarn.

Which means spinning. Some of my roving supplies 

And here left roving, middle current yarn on spindle, right handspun yarn, various fibers

This is a really exciting idea from years ago, I have notes and sketched pattern shapes that came back last night, as a side effect of reading this

It's a guided tour of his house, containing home and studio, shared with longtime business and life partner Brandon Mabley. It's a color riot of stitching and knitting and quilting, and collections of great decorative art pieces.

And here's a source of his inspiration

In Havana, Cuba, Fusterlandia, the creation of artist Jose Fuster, playful and happy work, full of color and movement.

It's a far cry from all this exuberance to my simple art weaving and knitting, but the Force is with me!  

My doctor agrees, after this morning's physical, which showed my mortal coil to be holding up nicely, all parts working, nothing hurting. She kept telling me how lucky I am. Well, I did know that.

And outside, Mrs Dove continues to do her bit for the life force

Happy day everyone, enjoy your life force!

What Mrs Dove did, and voting

Yesterday I opened the patio door thinking to do a bit of weeding, and disturbed Mrs Dove when I got too close to where she was sitting. She flew a couple of feet away and I saw

A few minutes later she came back to continue sitting.  She and her nest are concealed by the henbit that I'd planned to clear a bit. So I'll leave it until the family's fledged. 

She doesn't mind me if I don't get too close. Doves are calm birds. I expect she's a descendant of the ones who were hatched years ago in a hanging plant on the front porch.  The nest is just a few bits of grass chucked together, as you see, but anyway it can't fall any further, being on the ground. We don't have any outdoor cats, so it's pretty safe.

And today, the whole state legislature's term being up, I mail in my vote for the June primary 

Nothing like sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea, filling out the ballot, and keeping warm.

Happy day everyone, Textiles and Tea later, but I wanted to show you the mourning dove eggs right away.