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Table: i remembered we have someone in out Meeting who works with furniture (my request for furniture/cabinet makers on the SF Bay area community has not had any responses). I spoke with him briefly: he'll do a much nicer job than some steel L bracket. Maybe he'll take the retired table, too. Anyhow, i don't think it will be cheap, but i feel good supporting a craftsman i know. (Thanks for the supportive comments about the lack of support!)

Christine is in NC now. We woke at 4:30, had her at the airport at 6. I've had surprises for 6 am flights at SFO before, so she was there more than an hour in advance.

I came home by way of the grocery store, and then returned to bed for a while. I attended Meeting, the first time in three weeks. I was distracted by crochet and dyeing plans, but did think a bit about rest. The meditation i have right now -- a earthen oven with baking bread, a place i add wood to burn, a long simmering stew pot -- is a meditation on transformation, consumption and creation. But i found myself thinking about how one so often should take foods from the oven and let them rest -- yet they continue cooking then. It's a lesson i have a hard time learning: that "just sitting there" can be transformative and nurturing and NECESSARY. It's the lesson of winter, too.

Home via OfficeMax, where the sales associates sweep down on me mercilessly. Assistance was offered by three different associates, some more than once. Browsing, i found vinyl wall cling things on which you can write with dry erase markers. I now have a white board-like surface right next to my desk. (I need to buy more.) I love it!

In Saturday's post was also new D&D dice for someday actually getting tasks done. There was also a glasses repair kit, and i fixed Christine's sunglasses. I've been oddly active, doing stuff that needed doing, but wasn't exactly pressing. I also broke a "saucer" that i put my tea basket into. I'm running out of the little creme bruleé dishes Christine gave me, and i haven't made creme bruleé yet.

My sister called and liked the green dyed lace top. The top was from a thrift store and i hadn't washed it before dying. Something had caused the yellow dye to not take in spots, so there were blue blotches in the green. Christine thought it looked cool, Laura thought it looked like the Caribbean sea. So, OK.

Edward is still absent, i have to do the litter box, and i have wanted to comment on a number of posts...

But i better eat.

In Feline News (Table!)

Hahahaha! In taking photos of the table, in order to send to the furniture person, i found to push the leaf back in over the expanded legs. The leaf is now supported, and Greycie Loo keeps boinging back on and then, at the sight of me, off the table.

Yay!

Well, except for finding Greycie Loo burrowing under the tablecloth. CAT!

I need a Loo icon. And an Edward.

And in Edward news, he wouldn't come off the roof for me around 7:30 tonight and i haven't seen him since. Kibble on the deck, and a bed for him.

Lammas Time

A local local-foodie blogger actually was harvesting tricale wheat last week.



I feel i've been letting myself go, grow. It's probably been good for me, but i feel the need for focus and discipline. Not in bad ways, but more like needing the support of that.

It's been an odd day without Christine, i can feel the rattling around restlessness of not wanting to experience missing her.

It's been a lovely day. I haven't written much about the garden this year: at times it has been lush and abundant. The deck plantings are between floral bounties at the moment: the purple-pink hydrangea and chrysanthemum which were amazing for a month or so are fading. The purple and yellow planter, which had faded in June and July, is putting forth some more blossoms. One of the delicate scented geraniums has an amazing yet understated blossom. The red and white geraniums are still blooming, but have been understated this year. The lemon tree is full of green fruit, several different stages. Cherry tomatoes are ripening: red and orange punctuation marks among the foliage.

My pie from yesterday still pleases me: an apple, two pears, a bunch of very ripe grapes, one desiccated navel orange (peel still on), half a vanilla bean, and cup or so of cherries. I'm only making a crust across the top, a bisquick crust dabbed on -- not enough work room to really roll out pie crusts. But it's very yummy, so i won't be shamed by my shortcuts.