Today I'm very elegant with my wildly deep orchid purple eye. I wore a shirt to match the eye, thought I might as well go for a total fashion statement. I've been offered eye shadow in the same shade if I want to paint the other eyelid but this I've declined because to be effective I'd have to apply sparkles too and that might interfere with the safe healing of the wounded bit.

Wore my handspun vest for the first time today. Will go in search of buttons for it tomorrow. I'm still not up to moving except as absolutely necessary since my knee and toes are complaining much more vociferously of the indignities they endured yesterday; need to fetch firewood as the wood stove wants feeding again but that means leaving the comfort of my recliner.

Tonight the extent of my activity will be to pick wool, probably more of the Shetland fleece. The ram fleece is now dry and could be picked as well, but I think I'm going to let that sit for a while and focus on spinning the Shetland. I have the Cheviot to wash this weekend as well--want to wash what I have before the weather warms up and rains begin in earnest--it's so much easier to dry the fleece when there's a fire in the wood stove. It only takes about three days to dry a fleece when the woodstove is sucking all the moisture out of the air.

I won't run out of wool to spin anytime soon, and that's without considering yet what's available from this spring's shearings.