It's snowing again and I am trying to enjoy it.
It's also Wednesday and I am considering bringing What if Wednesday back (that was long ago). Probably because I have more questions than originally acknowledged. And I made it a focus in the Forever Zone. The thing is, I am really bogged down right now. The washer is broken, there are mice in my scrap basket, and it's going to snow enough to shovel. And I need to go to the market.
I did manage to solve the issues here for now. Who cares how? And I was thinking about photos and how they can be just as much as cloth to me sometimes. If I think about them when I take them. Especially if I photograph cloth, it can extend a composition. Make me feel like I am working with cloth. Over time I learn more about photos and how they work. Like any medium, knowing more about it is critical to connecting to it. Learning is a thread. And the thread can be long and wandering like this post, yet still connect this and that.
It is quite possible that I will switch my posting to a late evening thing as spring ( where the hell did it go?) approaches.
Soul-o’s expression seems to be saying “Oooh what I could be doing with those scraps!”
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Mice chewed through an old CQ blanket in our last rental. The cats just ignored them.
My husband said he read today people actually go crazy because of how hard the time change is for them especially as it drags into March.
I’m a natural bitcher too. Can’t help it.
Keep finding myself dreaming about gardening…
people go crazy because of so many things, I keep asking what is crazy?
sometimes bitching is just honesty. just saying. after all, how you feel is how you feel. there’s no right or wrong in it, but you can train yourself to change how you see things, but it is all so weird isn’t it? How we can see things…
Sigh this might show up twice…I don’t know if the cat bumped something or what. I was going to offer you a cat if you needed it (but not really). I’ve had two birds get in the house over the last few months. Sadly, the cats are faster than I am. Hoping that I’ve figured out how the birds are getting in. One more day of sunshine here and then rain, might be a flood watch too.
oh birds are another story, he can’t get enough of birds. he jumps really high.
How wonderful to have so much wildlife around. Here on the edge of the city in. South-West England I am noticing a real reduction as people pave over their front gardens to make car parking spaces – far fewer hedgehogs.
I just love that Soul-o is peaceable with the mice, although their antics can be trying. I have little ceramic German houses for Christmas that live in the cellar, one year I found that the mice had moved in, I still regret evicting them.
there has been an explosion of chipmunks here,
Another reason I like you so much. Letting off the bitchy steam helps to bring in the peace. I embrace the feistiness as a means of finding balance. I wish I could say that cats get rid of mice, but in my experience, they either ignore them or bring me the bodies to the front door. 50/50 they’ll even help!
This cat is not a good mouser. He actually likes them.
It’s spring all right, I got bit by a tick already.
Oh, worst part!
Love Soul-o’s slanted eyes !
he’s my eye model
your photography speaks so powerfully to me. i look at it for a long time ‘n think about how what it’s saying connects to your words ‘n to your cloth. love the expression on soul-o’s face! x
he is following me, I think he has become a dog.
Our spring brought wild fires, and now heavy storms! I’m ready for some calm …. ☕️🌞
probably the only calm is in us.
Lavender in your scrap basket. Animals don’t like its smell. The appointment with springtime is March 21, rather after than before. Let’s enjoy the last cold days before we complain about the heat and mosquitoes!
I tried that. And mint. Persistent little buggers. chewed a hole right through the bottom of the basket.
Ha! You sound like my mother, bless her heart. always on the bight side.
Me, I love to bitch.
You are so funny! I do enjoy your stories no matter their form or content. You make my days when you post. Been following you for a long time. I remember commenting on your circles many years ago and have followed you since then. You are such a wise artist and person.
At this point I think wiser it is just simply seasoned
However it goes, it’s reality which is always better. Love your photos.
it is REALLY snowing.
moths in my clothes, a mouse who collected fringe from the kitchen rug and redecorated my stationary drawer, snakes in the basement, birds and bats in the house, one three bat night, woodchucks and possums under the porch, meadow and deer mice and voles and shrews, flying and red squirrels, multitudes of insects and arachnids and this is the way it is. i had to herd a garter snake out of the basement monday after it played cobra, but i knew better. have you spoken with cat about the cooperative business deal you have?
You really have me laughing thank you,
Love your comment, Velma. You are my kind of person. I have a spider catcher — a pole kind of thing with a fiber grabber on the end that you put down over a spider or bug, pull a lever on the handle and it closes about the bug. Then I take it out to the side door and release it into a bush there. Apparently, the neighbor has been watching this for a while and finally asked what I was doing. When I told him he just shook his head. Oh well.
My husband just picks them up in his hand and walks them outside to release them.
I can do that with the little ones, but we have some pretty good-sized wolf spiders and they are a bit too creepy for me.
The big ones are a bit much…
You have a whole zoo out there Velma !
Oh man Velma! lol
Be kind to yourself —sit back and let it happen. If something comes up–we won’t disappear–we will understand. Sometimes LIFE just gets in the way. This is supposed to be a pleasurable thing for both you and all of us. LET IT BE___WHATEVER!!!
I am so looking forward to longer days where light lingers.
the world makes the days seem darker than usual.
Looks like SoulO has got an eye on the mouse problem
yeah, he found them
Call me a whirlwind rebel, Jude. i am the same age as you. I decided to make the creating of art my priority, and ride on the joy of it all. Maybe you could consider that, instead of letting the technology and the organzing of things steal so much time and energy. You have given so much over the years. We can find all of it somewhere. Leave that work up to us. Ifnyou sew it, we will find you. Imagine a summer of just thinking thouhts into cloth. Think of it as an indefinite artist in residence reality.!
Yeah, that’s about where I find myself.
Snowing here too but not sticking. The ground is warm from the nice weather we’ve been having. The warm weather is promised to come back and that’s the way spring goes… back and forth.
I’m in a bit of a tizzy myself at the moment. Mom used to tell me, take one thing on at a time and that’s what I’m doing, otherwise… it could get ugly. 😂
What If Wednesday sounds wonderful! We’ll just go along with whatever you decide.
Rising of the thread nest…brisk rain and finally some thunder to sit with.
the time of year when if you don’t like the weather just wait 5 minues. Record breaking 80s monday and possible snow and sleet today and this weekend with a return to the 60s starting next monday (garden time!)
you are so right, it’s like a weather sample. hmmm, that’s an idea. ha!
Or a weather flip book! lol
or a pile of scraps!