One Month Later...
Oct. 25th, 2019 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenEh, well, I've had bigger posting gaps.
So! Ashfield Fall Festival happened -- much walking, enjoyed the Morris dancing, helped out with collecting recyclables, helped with setup and breakdown of the quilt exhibit on the town hall stage (just two of us for setup as usual person-in-charge had a conflict), and helped run interference for a friend who's ex doesn't know when to quit.
Lyle broke his cotton candy-making record this year - 402 in one day! He has two young men helping and learning, thank goodness. Next year he might be able to leave them on their own for a few hours -- not during the rush, of course. He's considering getting a second machine next year -- there's a company that rents them out, so he could experiment for not too much.
Overall, a good weekend.
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Library project proceeding apace. I ended up moving some pieces of furniture around, once I got to hanging a few things on the wall and realized I needed to center a few things. Altho' I didn't do that for the metal bookcases -- too many books on them already and every single one would have to be re-leveled because they're on the side that is foam mats on the original concrete, not the new level floor on the other side :D
We did a light test this week, to see how many candles/light sources we'll need for the weekend and where best to put the lights. Picking up a couple of brackets for additional lighting, but really, it's pretty spiff. Yes, I'll try to take pictures this weekend, and yes, I will try to get them on here - Fitzw wrote out directions.
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Garden's winding down. Wind storm broke the pavilion/gazebo, tearing it out of the ground and whipping it around the crabapple and through two-thirds of the branch fence I made. I'll rebuild next year, I think. We did some foraging this year - autumn olive, black walnuts, hickory nuts, and some butternuts. And for the first time, my hazelnut trees had nuts too :)
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Library's coming along nicely for the weekend; Gavin installed the second exterior door today :) Likely this is the first time that part of the barn structure has ever been fully enclosed, I think. We're having a small gathering of Tolkien "rangers" - first one last month was mellow, and we're all out of practice at this packing for camping thing. This weekend we may sleep in the library, as it's supposed to rain Sunday and wet canvas tents are no fun.
Gavin also stacked some wood we acquired earlier this autumn, rearranged construction materials to open up the space in front of the library, and moved the brush/wood pile over a bit as well -- some of it will be getting cut up for firewood for this winter's use.
I was thinking we had things pretty well in hand for the outdoors, then I realized Lyle and I hadn't cleared the camp fire area after the storm, we'd just disassembled the broken pavilion so it wouldn't go flying about the field :D Plus I'd started changing things around in the greenhouse from summer mode to winter mode... so, that was a bit of work. Lyle also got some mowing done, trying to get the grass in decent shape for the winter. Some of the grass went into the cold pit in the greenhouse that we use for composting in the winter months.
Got a tunic to a wearable state tonight, finally. For some reason I ended up doing the whole thing by hand... the sewing machine faces away from the television so I don't like to use it at night, and during the day I've been doing stuff outside the house a good deal of the time.
Boiled eggs tonight; rest of the cooking's tomorrow, plus hoping to make some clothing on the machine. We'll see how it goes... Figuring out how to get the weight-loss thing going again is good, but I don't have as much energy/stamina as my body is trying to get used to the new state of being.
So! Ashfield Fall Festival happened -- much walking, enjoyed the Morris dancing, helped out with collecting recyclables, helped with setup and breakdown of the quilt exhibit on the town hall stage (just two of us for setup as usual person-in-charge had a conflict), and helped run interference for a friend who's ex doesn't know when to quit.
Lyle broke his cotton candy-making record this year - 402 in one day! He has two young men helping and learning, thank goodness. Next year he might be able to leave them on their own for a few hours -- not during the rush, of course. He's considering getting a second machine next year -- there's a company that rents them out, so he could experiment for not too much.
Overall, a good weekend.
***
Library project proceeding apace. I ended up moving some pieces of furniture around, once I got to hanging a few things on the wall and realized I needed to center a few things. Altho' I didn't do that for the metal bookcases -- too many books on them already and every single one would have to be re-leveled because they're on the side that is foam mats on the original concrete, not the new level floor on the other side :D
We did a light test this week, to see how many candles/light sources we'll need for the weekend and where best to put the lights. Picking up a couple of brackets for additional lighting, but really, it's pretty spiff. Yes, I'll try to take pictures this weekend, and yes, I will try to get them on here - Fitzw wrote out directions.
***
Garden's winding down. Wind storm broke the pavilion/gazebo, tearing it out of the ground and whipping it around the crabapple and through two-thirds of the branch fence I made. I'll rebuild next year, I think. We did some foraging this year - autumn olive, black walnuts, hickory nuts, and some butternuts. And for the first time, my hazelnut trees had nuts too :)
***
Library's coming along nicely for the weekend; Gavin installed the second exterior door today :) Likely this is the first time that part of the barn structure has ever been fully enclosed, I think. We're having a small gathering of Tolkien "rangers" - first one last month was mellow, and we're all out of practice at this packing for camping thing. This weekend we may sleep in the library, as it's supposed to rain Sunday and wet canvas tents are no fun.
Gavin also stacked some wood we acquired earlier this autumn, rearranged construction materials to open up the space in front of the library, and moved the brush/wood pile over a bit as well -- some of it will be getting cut up for firewood for this winter's use.
I was thinking we had things pretty well in hand for the outdoors, then I realized Lyle and I hadn't cleared the camp fire area after the storm, we'd just disassembled the broken pavilion so it wouldn't go flying about the field :D Plus I'd started changing things around in the greenhouse from summer mode to winter mode... so, that was a bit of work. Lyle also got some mowing done, trying to get the grass in decent shape for the winter. Some of the grass went into the cold pit in the greenhouse that we use for composting in the winter months.
Got a tunic to a wearable state tonight, finally. For some reason I ended up doing the whole thing by hand... the sewing machine faces away from the television so I don't like to use it at night, and during the day I've been doing stuff outside the house a good deal of the time.
Boiled eggs tonight; rest of the cooking's tomorrow, plus hoping to make some clothing on the machine. We'll see how it goes... Figuring out how to get the weight-loss thing going again is good, but I don't have as much energy/stamina as my body is trying to get used to the new state of being.
