25-26 Dec: Have you any wool?

Friday 25 December 2021

At home

The cattens had a typically peaceful day.

Nickel and Faerie have the closest bond.

Skooter modeled a gift from Marlene…for a very short time.

behind him, a bookshelf waiting to be organized

Allan continued to work on the 2021 version of his boating book with a rapt audience.

At the suggestion of Mr Tootlepedal, he has added a scale to his maps.

Stormy weather made it a good reading day for me. I finished the fourth memoir by Dodie Smith (I hope to share something about these later) and felt verklempt that they were over, but I have ordered a biography of her. The memoirs left off with over thirty years of her life left to describe! I think she wrote the last one when in her late 80s. I wonder if she hoped to live long enough to write one more.

After opening gifts from each other …..

A perfect pair of garden ornaments from Allan

….and from Montana Mary (delicious condiments and some books!) and Our Kathleen (Penzey’s spices and my very own copy of A Way to Garden!), we had a simple dinner of delicious salmon, caught last summer by our nearby neighbor Jeff Norwood…we’d frozen and saved it for a special occasion…and rice with soy sauce and canned peas, with Christmas cookies from Denny and Mary for dessert.

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Saturday, 26 December 2020

Port of Ilwaco

Yes, I actually left the property. (Allan leaves it almost daily to walk to the post office between midnight and 1 AM to get our mail). I had got a message from Heather at Purly Shell Fiber Arts that a bag of discarded wool mixed with wind blown fallen leaves awaited me on the shop patio. Compost makings!

I got to see my friend Jack!

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We bagged up some more leaves for a total of three bags full of compostables.

I very much enjoyed the writing on the patio where the Purly women spin wool in good weather.

It’s been in my head ever since.

Just across the lawn…

Folks were dining outdoors at Salt Pub.

In one of the port curbside gardens, a geum bloomed out of season.

We drove to the boatyard to check the garden there for trash that tends to blow in. I do like seeing the encouraging signage that was placed there by our county public health department…and we saw a couple of new boats.

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Don’t give up.

Back at home, I had time to load bagged leaves from autumn into the new leaf bins and some woolly leaf debris into bin one. The new path is so easy to walk on.

While I did have another project in mind, blustery weather arrived and sent me back to a book, and I didn’t mind.