Friday, March 20, 2020

Daily Notes- March 20th

                                                

Desktop.  Just moments ago.  I finished the mending/repair of my red sweater.  I used the pocket to fill in where there were holes.  That's my digital thermometer.  Taking my temperature and NOT having a fever--calms me down. Listening to Jude on Spirit Cloth also calms me down. She had a short audio test today.  And Grace welcomed two baby boy goats yesterday.  It was a long, cold night but it ended well.  They are very cute. No names yet but I think they will be interesting.

It's cold and raining here and while G does his back stretching exercises, I am going to bundle up and take a walk to the end of the street and back.  Under my umbrella. Maybe twice.  Exchange the indoor air in my lungs with fresh outdoor air. Then have a large mug of hot, sweet tea.

I watched the latest version of Murder on the Orient Express on tv last night.  Lovely visually but........so glad I didn't pay money to see it.

I have a number of things set to record this week on my TiVo but my most favorite thing to watch is a self made movie (PBS) of an artist summering here in Maine and his paper collage methods and his gardening.  I have watched it 6 times I think.   He crumples and paints the white standard pad paper, lets it dry and then slowly rips the papers into shapes to glue- white glue with his fingers- onto the drawing he has made on stretched canvas.  He does this work at a table on a glass windowed porch- the kind all Maine cottages have to keep the mosquitos out in the summer.

I also love watching The Healing Machine- also PBS.  I have wire- a root ball cage and lots of little things like rusting stars and beads- I could make my own healing machine.  Set up a table in the vast empty living room.  Plastic on the floors.  Hang it from a branch in the big oak tree.  With a special attachment that allows it to rotate in a circular fashion.  Sparkle in the sunlight.

I like watching people make things.  I have two cooking shows set to record on TiVo.  One is a chef named Vivian Howard.  She is a Southern woman and she talks.  Talks more than she cooks.  But she talks about cooking, about food, about her history with food.  And she is sloppy and makes a mess and then laughs about being messy and then just makes another mess.

Jude is going to have another class. She is going to talk and sew and make and I am going to be so very happy listening to her voice.  It's the best thing ever.  And I wonder about other bloggers I love reading.  Would I love listening to them as well?  Telling me stories.

This Time alone in the house.  I miss listening to people talking most of all.
 

3 comments:

  1. My favorites to watch are cooking shows too. Love to watch, not crazy about cooking or baking, soo relaxing to watch others do it. Have to admit I'm doing quite a bit more baking in these crazy times, that is, til my ingredients run out, never know if you can get more of anything after you've taken your life in your hands and made your way to the supermarket.Not too happy with the bulk buyers and hoarders, and those buying to resell!!

    take care
    Annie

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  2. I love Vivian Howard and her stories about the restaurants that she has opened in the south. I have watched her from the beginning of her series. I haven't seen the pbs one about the artist in Maine. It looks good. I finally received the binding tools and binding thread. They make a big difference in binding books. I tried doing it with things I have on hand and it was much less successful. Hope you and G are taking the CDC suggestions serious. Think many of us will need to reach out to others electronically to hold off isolation. I sent out an email to all my guild members today and asked them to reach out each day to one other person, friend, family, neighbor. My plans to visit Maine are on hold...had planned to come up during the spring break with my son...hopefully by summer. I still want to meet you in person.
    gretchen

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  3. the PBS program about the collage artist summering in Maine ... I tried to find it, but was unsuccessful ... I'm hoping you might give a bit more info in a future post since I know you are unable to comment here ... thank you!

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