Quickly

In order to keep up with my blogging schedule, (self imposed) I am making this post without a lot of flourish, just so that I can say I posted something on Saturday.

KNITTING

Early in the evening, knitting while watching TV

End of the day after a good episode of Cedar Cove

The last post showed a golf club cover that looked a lot like this one, and that's because it practically is.  I frogged the one in the last post and re-knit this same section with only 48 stitches and smaller size 5 needles.  Much better!

PICKING

LLAMA FLEECE ONE

LLAMA FLEECE TWO

And I picked one of the two llama fleeces my husband's friend gave me.  This is the fleece on the lawn getting used to a new home.

  So far, so good.  This thing was so dusty and it took me most of a day to pull and shake and fluff the thing.  Back into a large shopping bag with very little thrown away.  I tried washing a sample and it felted immediately.  Now I know I will have to spin it with the remaining dirt, an then wash the yarn.  I think carding/combing it will greatly reduce the dusty quality.  Right now it feels like an old cowboy blanket that used to sit under a saddle.

SPINNING
And here's what I've been spinning!  JOY!  I do love spinning!

STARBUCKS GREEN

SAME GREEN NEXT MORNING

TWO PLY TURTLE FROM MY TURKISH SPINDLE! 

Mohair mixed with Angelina

White cloud of angora/wool blend

PERSONAL
I am working on some new life goals, and trying to work through the big rocks, as Stephen Covey calls them.  I'm re-reading a couple more of his books, and trying to see where everything falls.  I had to make a little boundary today, and it was uncomfortable and awkward.  I hate having to do that, because I want to please everyone.  But I'm old enough now to know when to say NO.  It always feels better when I do.

Sometimes people have legitimate needs, and sometimes its hard to say no when the request is perfectly valid.  But part of maturing and making things better for me and may family, is learning to be less grouchy.  I get grouchy when I have to do something I don't wanna do.  You too?  I feel like a kid being told to clean my room, or go apologize to my sibling.  Grumbling I go, doing the thing I don't want to do.  But now I'm grown up, and I can say no.  Its as easy as that.  Then I'm happy again, and so is everyone else in my house.  No one is wondering, "why is she ticked off?" or "did I do something to make her mad?"
Crisis averted before anyone else' mood is spoiled.  There!  Saying no is actually a very good thing indeed!