Our Memorial Day weekend? Maybe the laziest weekend of the year so far. It's four-thirty in the afternoon and Dave and I are still in our pajamas. We've each done a handful of chores around the house, but otherwise I've watched youtube videos and done a bit of sewing and Dave has played video games and made bread dough and sat outside with Gray Kitty. Nothing very taxing.
Yesterday we rearranged our fireplace mantel. The new arrangement consists of a cloth panel (waves, the full moon, rabbits against an indigo background) I bought from Japan a few months ago, a sculpture of a fox (from the Japanese folktales about Kuzunoha) that I made ten (!) years ago wrapped in a yellow scarf that my mother made for me. We kept the candles that Kelly gave us, of course. They're perfect. And I added a small family of Calico Critter rabbits.
That photo makes everything look crooked, which it is not, I swear! Anyway, I want to add a spider to our arrangement, but we have none in the house--at least none that will agree to sit there for awhile. We do have an octopus--several toy ones, in fact, since I collect them--but that's the only eight-legged creature we could conjure up and an octopus didn't seem quite right. Instead, I got online and found a pattern for a stuffed spider that I'm going to sew up. We'll see how that goes.
On one of his outdoor adventures with Gray Kitty, Dave took this photo of our old boy. You can really see his clipped ear from when he was caught and spayed by the people who catch and spay feral cats. He had a rough beginning before he became our million dollar kitty.
He's getting old, but he's still very handsome.
While they were out, I was at the dining room table shredding old paperwork and bills, both ours and my brother's. Something moving in the window caught my eye and I turned to see this little lizard scampering up the window screen.
The zoom on my camera picked up no detail, but it did get this shadowy image. We've had many lizards hanging around this spring. I like them. They keep the crawly bug population down--and in return feed some of the birds and sometimes our little cat, though he much prefers mice.
After I had gone through a whole shopping bag full of paperwork, I spent the rest of the afternoon napping. Dave spent his afternoon making pitas (he's on a quest to perfect his pita bread recipe) and then dinner (roast chicken for me, vegetarian sausages for himself, a baked potato to split, salad leftover from one I made yesterday or the day before). While we had dinner, we watched an episode of 30 Rock (the show goes to Boston so Jack can chase Nancy). Then I cleaned up the kitchen a bit and Dave went outside to plant some of the bedding plants that we bought a few weeks ago.
That brings us to now. I've printed off the spider pattern I bought and I'm wondering if I should make a test run. (I'd rather go back to bed and get in a pre-bedtime nap, but it might be a bit late to squeeze that in.)
Here's the day's complaint:
I'm so dried out. The humidity is 6%--a couple of days ago it was 4%--which is very low. We run a humidifier in the house constantly--some days we go through a gallon of water--but I still wake up with dry eyes and my skin feels papery all the time.
Here's some good things:
Hummingbirds still come to our little collection of feeders.
There are people in this world who do things like make up patterns for stuffed spiders and sell them on the internet so that I don't have to try to reverse engineer a spider.
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