Note to self--always wear a ball cap when visiting Lunenburg. Discovered today just why this is so important. You want to be wearing something washable on your head so that when a seagull decides to crap on you, the shit doesn't slime your hair, only the hat. Please, don't ask me how I know this...

Isn't it great to be so in tune with nature that you know what to wear to be fashionable and washable? Who said I don't know what's what?

It is also fiddlehead season, which must last, what? all of three days. This is a culinary treat not to be missed no matter what the little suckers cost. Presently simmering some on the stove for supper, prior to dowsing them in garlic butter. I figure my arteries need the butter and besides isn't garlic good for me, stands to reason combining them will be even better.

Dyed some Cotswold fleece acquired during a visit to Ross Farm Museum last Sunday. Boulder Brook Spinners were there with wheels and spindles to spin all afternoon and talk to visitors about spinning. We had a great time, doing our spinning thing in public! The dyed fleece is an experiment to see how close I could get to the copper colour I want for a Lucy Neatby pattern called Faroese Flower Shawl. I did pretty good in terms of colour, never mind that I figure it will take me at least three years, yes years, to knit this. The pattern runs to 7 pages with another four pages of chart. Yikes. It may be too late in life to start such a project, even though I plan to live into my nineties--I hear the nineties are all champagne and roses, or at least mine will be.

I plan to knit the shawl in the Polwarth I've been spinning in fingering weight--only a bit left to do and I can ply up for the last skein.

A month of all manner of stuff, none of it memorable to record. Well maybe that's not quite true. Last month of freedom for a while, might warrant a notice. Began a job this week, part time, around my other part time job. So yes, I have two part time jobs which add up to full time and leave me very little (no) play time.

Twice this week I've travelled Hwy !2 to Wolfville in an attempt to connect with an Acadia ID card and computer. Was successful today thankfully. Next week I'll work from the office here instead of spending my time in transit between here and there.

Sunday the Boulder Brook Spinners will be at the Ross Farm Museum with all our gear/wheels and enough woolens to keep us warm. It is supposed to rain and not be more than about 13C on Sunday so it will be nippy in the unheated barn where we sit to spin. But with experience we'll know to dress for the day with plenty of layers. I need to organize a picnic lunch and plenty of coffee to keep me going. Caitie the 15 year old is considering coming along, though I doubt she's considering it seriously. Drove her and two other hyper giggling teenage girls to their last junior high dance. Between the scents they'd slathered on and the raging hormones emanating from them I had trouble keeping the car on the highway!

I now have two computers to use, my Macbaby and the Dell for work. Set up the Dell to recognize my router so if I have to work from home I actually have a wireless internet connection. Good for me, only took a couple of hours of fiddling to get that done--and still don't have the connection to the library I need. That'll wait until tomorrow.

Landed in an office for this three month part time gig, which contains too many used toothbrushes abandoned by the previous occupant as well as the remains of an enormous jug of Pepto Bismal. What can I deduce from this I wonder.

So the third day of the second part time job tomorrow and then a rest of sorts until Tuesday. Might consider doing some laundry and kitchen chores over the weekend, as I no doubt should.