I think it's perfect,too!

Apparently, computer ate my previous post the day before yesterday. Don't remember what it said though- probably nothing important.



Anyway, here's a picture of a sunflower in our garden. It's our first sunflower this year, because we sowed them so late. Our neighbors have had sunflowers flowering for weeks now. But good things are worth a little wait.
     Our weekend was nice, and we spent lots of time in the garden, both before and after the sunset. At this time of the year, our garden feels truly paradisial: colorful butterflies and flowers in the daytime, and the Milky Way stretching above us in the nighttime. Everywhere is the scent of fresh apples. They are not good to eat this year, but the scent is still lovely.
     I've started working with my various projects, grant applications and such again. It's insane to think that I'm looking for a job ON TOP OF THAT. I have no idea how I will survive alive if I actually find a job. But...money would be nice.

Hair& Ear: Left ear caused me a little trouble during the weekend, but is better now. Guess it might have been wise to stay a week or so in 12g after all. Though I still love how my little purple glass plugs look when worn in a matching pair. Beautiful!
    I realized it's been months since I last visited the LL shop pages. On my last visit, everything was always sold out, and I finally decided to give up for a while. I was happy to see the shop looking more normal now. There have been changes, but the most important thing- gorgeous hair jewelry- is still there so I'm all happy. I wish I could justify myself buying a pair or two, but then...I haven't even tried on all the sticks I got from the Great Swap.  I guess my life isn't that hairstick friendly in these days. But who knows when that will change?   

(neck craning)did I hear hairtoy swap???  Let me know if you're still swapping and what you've got!

Love the pics!  You're gonna love the alpaca yarn!  I'm crocheting the cardigan in an orchid alpaca/silk/wool(I think)  so many projects and so much yarn!!! lol I've got 100% alpaca in blue that I'm crocheting a shawl in (since last year ! It is very nice to work with,either crochet or knit.

I love the shawl!!

BTW, I don't remember you answering me about the quantity of baking soda to water for using baking soda as a fabric softener.  I bought 1lb of baking soda today (I use it for many other things too) so I would like to know for my washing this weekend!!!

JD

Last night

00.00 go to bed. It's late but since I can't sleep well alone, I have stayed up long.
01.30 sleep. Finally.
05.30 Wake up to a loud crash downstair.
05.35 Go to downstairs. Find that rabbit's fencing has been torn down. Count one rabbit (Lumi) missing and nowhere to be seen. Realize that it's cold downstairs, so go back up and quickly fetch a cardigan.
05.45 Come back downstairs, only to discover that also Pyry has woken up and run away. Catch Pyry and repair the fencing. Lumi is still nowhere to be seen. Search the kitchen. Then living room. Hall. Porch. Bathroom. Sauna. Crawl on the floor in order to check all the imaginable spaces where a crazy rabbit could crawl. Still no sign of Lumi. Pyry realizes that he is alone and gets panicked. Repair the fencing again while talking soothingly to Pyry. Search the whole downstairs once again, this time slightly worried.
06.10 Find Lumi from under the freeze. Wonder for a split second how on Earth has she managed to squeeze herself there, then realize that there are electric cords and other dangerous stuff. Unplug the freezer. Start chasing the rabbit. Restart the freezer and enhance the supposedly rabbit proof barricade around it.
06.15 Rabbit escapes from the kitchen and runs to sauna. Guess how fun she's to chase there.
06.20 Catch the rabbit. Preach her about how good a glove she would make and toss her into the pen. Rabbit hops right back out, sayin "U can't force me to be here, nyah nyah nyah". Toss her back. This time she sees Pyry and is contented to stay. Yelling probably helps to drive the message in. Go back to bed.
06.55 After some five or ten precious minutes of peaceful sleep, wake up to alarming crash from downstairs. Find that Lumi has escaped again. Chase the rabbit around kitchen and porch. Catch an annoyed rabbit from porch, put her back to pen. Go back to bed.
07.20 Wake up again. No crash, but suspicious sounding soft hopping. The idiot rabbit thinks I can't hear her just because I don't have long ears. Go prove Lumi otherwise. After all, in 20 years of keeping rabbits I have developed ears very sensitive to badly behaving bunnies. Watch her like a hawk for a while, trying to glare her badly enough that soon she would prefer a hawk for company.
07.45 Situation peaceful. At least, crazy gleam has disappeared from Lumi's eyes.  I decide I can't go back to sleeping and decide to officially get up.
09.00 Rabbits go to sleep for the daytime. After all, they are twilight animals.

It's 4 pm when I'm writing this, and I'm dreadfully tired- it's not like I have had a good night's sleep since T left to the conference. I'm waiting for bedtime, since I can't mess my daily routine so close to the trip. I've done some cleaning and packing, but have rescheduled a ton of work for tomorrow and for Wednesday just because my brain is just a big bowl of porridge today.

Looking for a restful trip, and a night in hotel knowing that certain two rabbits are in Finland with my mother watching them.

I'll have to get her something really nice for agreeing to come.

Then T wonders why I don't want us to have a baby.