Faux Spring?

 

This photo is from a few years ago and shows rather more ground than it does currently - but much later in the season.

Is what we have 'faux' spring?  Dunno.  The forecaster is saying much higher temps are coming, so this could be it - the last 'gasp' of winter?  And how the yard will look in a few days?  Time will tell.

I've been struggling with managing the new pain meds.  The new medication is behaving differently and while things change, I have no idea if it is going to be a good medication for me.  That is yet to be determined.

What is happening is that I've not been sleeping well, and I drag myself through the day knowing that I'm running on short rations for sleep.  And the less sleep I get, the more my brain hiccoughs and swallows whole words, or spits out doubles.  

However, I have managed to make some progress on the article, and will be sending to my alpha reader in a few days (she says, hopefully).  

In the meantime, I've plugged away on the loom and just this afternoon cut the warp off and started cutting/serging the towels.  Tomorrow I will inspect/repair and get them into the washing machine.  I have appointments every day (mostly) this week, so I don't know if I will feel up to actually beaming the next warp soon.  OTOH, I could work on the wet finishing and finish off the article?  Start the next?

I have a short list of warps I want to do and since I'm this close to done the last article, I'm going to work on the next article sample/project.  This afternoon I finished tweaking the draft I've been working on for the last couple of days.  I will likely design several drafts, but only weave one of them.  Readers will need to understand how to 'read' their cloth and the best way to do that is walk people through designing a draft of their own.  

My story, sticking to it.

One of the things that teaching weaving has taught me is that different people process information in different ways.  The more information I can provide so that people can process the way that makes most sense to them, the better they will learn.  If they want to.

But someone has to continue to explore the craft and understand how it works.  Not everyone is comfortable designing their own patterns, and there has to be enough people left who *do* understand how to do that so that people get good information.

And the more people who understand the craft, the more people there will be to keep the craft alive.