Monday, August 15th, 2005

Vacation

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The water was rough last night. We are up the hill from it, but as I stood on the front porch, overlooking the water, I could hear it beating on the shore. I love how the moonlight shines on the water before it gets dark. The colors are beautiful and sparkling.

I was able to do a lot of spinning yesterday. I’ve been wanting to try something different with my roving. I spun a thick single with my pink, and then plied it with a thin single that alternates between light and dark green. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this wasn’t it.

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It isn’t bad, it’s just a bit strange. Now I wonder how it would look the other way around. I figure, I have a bunch of roving, I might as well play around and get familliar with what I can do, so when I have some fiber I’m really in love with, I’ll have a more educated approach to using it well.

Olivia is doing pretty well. Her foot seems much better. She has been finding ways to entertain herself…

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Like bouncing on her bum. She wasn’t so inventive at the beach, where there are LOTS of things to do that don’t involve getting wet. She spent the whole time quite upset. We didn’t go down to the water until after dinner, so it was a bit cold. I was the only one really getting wet, as I was anxious to dive off the dock again. It feels SO good after a hot, sweaty day. But like I said, the water was rough. There was a bit of wind, and the swells were so large that they’d literally lift my body up and then drop me beneath the next swell, so keeping my head above water was a bit of a challenge at times. It’s protected water, so I wasn’t in any danger, but it made for choppy swimming. My point is that I was the only one really in the water, so I don’t know what her fuss was all about.

She did manage to get extra treats out of me when we were done. An opportunist to the last.

I’ve re-ripped the 8 rows of VCC, and have knit many more. I haven’t counted, but it’s moving along.