fuzzy shirt for my Beloved

Yesterday, my body crashed from the fall.  I slept a lot.  I think I ran some fever but I did not do much other then heal.

A while back I started another fuzzy shirt for my Beloved.  I worked on it a little bit every day.  Then there were just the buttons to go.  This where some button soup we found came in handy.  My Beloved went through the button soup to find nine buttons for his shirt.  All wooden.

Then, with some quiet time, buttons, button holes, and he has a new soft fuzzy shirt.

Does he look nice?

healing

I am healing.  I did not have much energy today but I wove until I needed to change colors which is very exciting.  Small steps.  It is like dealing with the aches and pains from the fall.  Small steps.  I will heal.  I just have to give myself the time to.  Which is frustrating.  I went to a massage therapist tonight who worked on the aches from the fall but also on my arthritic conditions.  I will not be surprised if I can barely move tomorrow.  But what comes may, I will be healing.  He told me I need to work more on my posture.  I find it is hard to do this while weaving.  More learnings going on.  Not just about weaving!

it is one of those Mondays

I had ideas of what I would post here.  But I fell.

On top of my bicycle as I was trying to put it away.

I am bumped, bruised, twisted, scraped, and cut.  There is blood on my dress and I am weepy.  This was not the afternoon or the post I thought I would have.  So I thought I would share some flowers from my garden.

 

I do not know what tomorrow will bring when it comes to movement.  My arthritic conditions were not happy with my today anyhow and I was moving slowly.  I just hope to be moving tomorrow.  I wish are little cob Teahouse was finished.  I would curl up with  a book, read, and heal.  Pots of tea and maybe soup.  Right this moment though, it is time to rest.

cob oven

One of the columns my Beloved is building is going to contain on oven.  The columns are for a structure that will be his forge.  One is one more fire feature?  We bought firebrick this last weekend and made sure it was the right height.  My Beloved actually took his chain saw to the top of the column so that the oven floor would be level with shoulder.  I will not have to lift up when I place bread in it or when I take bread out.  Or maybe yogurt. Or pizza. Or a casserole.  Or a....

We put masonry sand in the shape of the oven on top of the fire bricks.  We used an old olive oil can to create the chimney.  We then covered the sand with paper.

My Beloved made a batch of cob with out straw in it in the mortar mixer (we are lazy.  we rarely foot tread cob anymore unless it is at a workshop).  We put the whole batch on top.  We just have to keep going up and finish the column.  We will also cut a door.  We just have to build the column up until it will meet the roof.  Then the oven can be used!  Maybe sooner.  We will have to see.

garden

Since I have been feeling better, this is what I have been doing after work.  I have been putting in my vegetable garden.  It is mostly eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes.  But we also put in another fig and four very healthy thornless blackberry plants.  My Beloved and I like fruit and are trying to grow as much as possible of our own.

The funny thing was when I went and looked around my beds, how many volunteers we have.  We planted six tomato plants from the farmers market.  But then I spread old seed and I found out my Beloved had gone about put the over right fruit in the ground last year.  We actually have sixteen or twenty tomato plants.  I do not know what we are going to do with them all!  There is also volunteer amaranth, beans, and watermelon!  

And then whatever random "oh, lets plant these old seeds and see if anything comes up in the flower bed."  I have a pumpkin plant from that.

All I can is that next fall, I am going to have enough compost for sheet mulching, even if I have to buy it!