Daily Notes- Happy Halloween

One of the identical  twin boys on my street is the writer and the other the adventurer.  The writer sends us letters.  And other adult families on the street also get letters.  I've lived here over 28 years and this is the most fun we have had on this street in all that Time.  Mrs. Joanne.  Mr. Gary.

Tonight they will visit and show off this year's Halloween costumes.  It's raining here in Maine- again.  It's actually rained everyday this week in various degrees.  No sunshine today.  And the twins will likely be our only trick or treaters.

Riley has had his morning walk on leash down the street (one of 4 to 5 walks a day).  He's had his pills which include a hemp treat, amoxicillin and a tranquilizer.  G was given some sort of controlled narcotic for his sciatic nerve pain and both are asleep behind my chair.  G is snoring.  The dog is not.  I wish G would stop snoring.  It's annoying.  The dog makes an occasion snuffle which I like.

I stitched a sliver of an old Goodwill lavender linen blouse to the right side of yesterday's cloth.  And I pulled the tin can out of the black walnut jar (just to see).  I had tied fabric around the rusty can with string and soaked it for four days.  Without heat.  So I wasn't expecting much as I think the black walnut needs heat to transfer pigment.  I used a strip of white cloth that was sent along with the walnuts.  I got a light grey brown with interesting ghost like lines from the string and the rusty tomato paste can.  Just one hull from one walnut.  A test run.  I'll be making a larger batch as the hulls blacken and cook that to a boil.  And I'll make some of the liquid into ink.  I might heat up the salsa jar with the cloth, walnut husk and tin can-- put it in the small enamel steamer pot I got at Goodwill.  Non reactive. Try for a darker dye.

I watched a few movies on Lifetime yesterday between dog walks.  Christmas ones.  One about some shoes a little boy wanted to buy for his dying mother.  Another about a kiss in an elevator.  Then we watched- well tried to- but everyone wanted to go to bed early-- images of the planet Earth from above-- from cameras in the sky.  Really beautiful.  I recorded it- we'll watch today.  If G ever decides to wake up.