Daily Notes- May 14th

I know they are hungry.  I know they lived on this land long before the house were built.  I know they find garden plants more delicious than woodland food.  I know all this but I still am reduced to tears when they eat some treasured plant I have tended.

My cloth has been re-steamed with plant material and blackened tin cans.  It is wonderful.  I left it to dry overnight and this morning after I wrote my Morning Pages, I washed them out with Dawn-- safe for cloth and ducks.  They are back on the drying rack.  Later today I will iron them.

I have an idea for my project for the class I am taking with Jude Hill.  Long ago I made something which I titled Alien X-Ray.  I am going into the Magic Attic to find it and that is going to be my stepping off point.  I might even have it in the picture files here on the blog.  Anyway, I think having some sort of kernel of an idea to work to, from, away from etc. is a good thing when you are stuck.  And I am stuck.  I have no Spirit animal or Guide.

I went back to wrapping cloth in aluminum foil and steaming-above the water line.  It works for me. And because I am very short on blue-I am going to try dying with black beans and soy milk.

I have a book to read.  It's in the 30's, dark, cold, raining.  The walk today with Riley will be miserable.  He's sleeping right here next to me.  Likes to be close to someone.  I don't think Summer will ever come to Maine.  Our first July living here, I had the woodstove on and both my "home from college for the summer" children were shivering and asking--why did you want to move here????  I still wonder why we moved here.

But I have an adventure waiting for me as I go up the stairs into the Magic Attic.  And my book to read on the couch with a down lap quilt.  Then ironing my new cloth.  That should keep me going until lunch.  Ha!

The site where I found good ideas for eco printing-- Gumnut Magic "https://www.gumnutmagic.com/blog/"  I recommend it.  Her videos are nicely made and show you exactly what to to do.  She also has nice Pinterest sites in the UK to visit.  Nice eco print finished works to look at. Some new to me work by Spirit Cloth on those sites.