It finally happened. Oh, there have been episodes of sleet, although they never amounted to much. But winter, late as it is, has been creeping closer. Yesterday the trees were covered in hoar frost - the first 'real' hard frost we have had, here, and this morning a sprinkling of light snow. It won't last, but it's quite late in arriving.
Climate change.
I appreciate that young people don't realize how rare it is to have warm temps and no snow this late in the season. If they are in their 20s, by the time they were born climate change was already well advanced, so they don't know how it 'used to be'. They don't know how unusual this is. And while I am grateful to have it be late due to my difficulty in walking and all, I find it also concerning that human beings continue the head long dash towards burning ever more oil and gas. It will not be me who will 'suffer' for it, I don't think I have more than a few more years left in me. But the young folk? They will be the ones who watch the sea levels rise, coastal cities become inundated, food scarcity, natural disasters that become worse, year after year. Places where whole additional categories of severity of storms will likely continue to grow, winds becoming stronger, wild fires rage more violently, ground water dry up due to drought and/or poisoned by industrial pollution.
Well, that was not my intent when I sat down at the desktop to share the photo above, but it is what I have been thinking of and out it came...
Back to the usual programming...
Yesterday I cut off the last warp as there wasn't enough left to make even one more towel. Then I changed my mind about what colour(s) to use for the next warp. I'm getting very low on 2/16 cotton, and it's hard to decide what I want to do because there isn't really enough of any colour to do something I want to make. I'm down to nubbins of tubes. Yay?
I'm playing yarn chicken with the next warp, which I got half beamed yesterday. I have to decide when to change out one colour (there are 3 in the warp) and I'm pretty sure one has too little yarn left to make it through the entire warp. However, I only need 9 tubes and I had a total of 18 so I know I can do the warp. There *should* be enough yarn left on the other two colours to last, but if not, I have *some* 'extra' tubes. We'll see if it is enough.
If push comes to shove, I could always make the warp a couple inches narrower, but the highly twisted weft I want to use up means higher shrinkage than 'usual' and I don't want them to be any narrower than they are turning out, so...guess I'll Find Out?
Tomorrow is the weaver's show and share and my WEFT magazine arrived so I have the two boxes of samples and the magazine packed up in the wheeled cart. I may get Doug to drag it up to the guild room. I'm not feeling horrible right now, but I still have the rest of the warp to beam and my legs were not happy after doing the first half yesterday. Every day is a 'wait and see' day - can I do this? That? Or nah?
Next week I need to do light duties, so on my task list is to do the math for the article samples I've just agreed to write. I've borrowed a small table top lever loom, which will make it easier to get photos of the process (which needs, imho, to be well photographed to understand how it works). I need to wind a warp chain on the warping board and dress the small loom. The deadline is in 2026, so I'm not too panicked about getting it done, and if I'm not feeling great, weaving on the small loom means I should be able to weave a little bit.
In the meantime, I look at the calendar and remind myself I need to get the 2026 calendar set up. I have booked a Zoom presentation in February. That seems far enough away to be 'do-able'. Because I haven't given up on things improving. My next infusion is on Tuesday and it took about a week for things to settle and if I see if there is improvement. Little by little, I nurse my tiny pot of hope...
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