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Well, I made it.  Wasn't sure I would, for a while.  But Life is Like That.

We awoke to a nice sunny day.  And no, we have no plans to 'celebrate'.  We don't generally do that.  Doug usually forgets his own birthday, never mind mine.  And neither of us *needs* gifts.  If we *need* something we buy it.

Lately, the only thing I *need* is more meds.

Yesterday I gave myself the 'gift' of cutting the warp off the loom.   There wasn't enough warp left to weave one more towel, and besides, I want to move on.  The next warp keeps calling.

I have to keep going, because if I don't, I give up.  And something, somewhere, seems to want me to stay here.  For a while, anyway.  Maybe the Loom Goddess sees that there is still room for improvement?  I know I sure do!

Or maybe I need to keep helping others, best I can?

Mostly, I just want to know more, understand more, about this craft.

Anyway, thank you to those who ordered items from my ko-fi shop.  My elderly desktop may not function well on Win 11 and my IT friend cautioned me to be prepared to replace it.  The sale continues until midnight tonight.  I'll decide if I run another sale in November.  Or not.  Too many loose cannons to tell if that will be a possibility, or not.

I've outlived my father and brother (and a whole lotta aunts and uncles), but not my mom.  Not that I'm sure I want to live to 90.  I'm tired.  Exhausted.  But I came out of the brain bleed in much better shape than I had any right to expect.  So, I guess I keep going.

The yarn for the additional samples arrived, but I feel like I need to do more thinking about how I'm going to execute them, in the most efficient way possible.  :)  So today I'm going to begin beaming the next tea towel warp, which I finished designing over the weekend.  And mentally I had already committed to doing that 'next'.  I have to have the samples to the magazine by the end of August(ish) but that won't take long once I get it figured out.  I just want to crunch the numbers to make sure I'm on track to do what they want.

At this point I am on 'bonus plus' time.  Whatever I can do will be just that - a bonus.  It's rather freeing, actually, not feeling like I have to 'prove' myself.  So when people tell me I don't know what I'm talking about (yes, some still do that), I don't care.  Maybe I just don't know what *they* want to know.  Or they don't want to know what *I* know.  It's nothing that diminishes me.  (Still processing this, but making headway.)   

In the meantime, I'm going to go get dressed and to the loom.  Start beaming that warp.  Looking forward to seeing how it looks once it's woven - and more importantly - wet finished.  Because you know it isn't finished until it's wet finished, right?  :D