It’s a Monday morning. We all have feelings about that. My current feeling is that I’m not ready. I did get almost caught up with grading…well, until this week, when everything at the end of everything is due. Friday will feel overwhelming, for sure, but for now, I’m trying to get to a place of managing that. The trimester ends next Friday, the science unit ends this week, all the art projects end this week. And the month ends! It’s probably not related. Plus in the last week and a half, there are 4 pickups for art. I’m handling 2 of them and the men are handling the other 2, because they’re all during my work day…during a normal person’s work day, honestly. So yeah. Not sure what I’d be doing if I didn’t have people home to do pickups. Negotiating alternate pickup methods, I guess.
Did anyone do QuiltCon? I am realizing I prefer an actual class with a teacher talking to me to a pre-recorded video class. So be it. I’m in it for the human interaction. I watched both my classes, but haven’t started due to materials issues and time issues and just plain issues. I might get there. We’ll see. I missed the lecture I signed up for because I forgot about time zones, which I’m sad about, but it was recorded, so I watched it anyway: Chawne Kimber, who looks like fun to watch quilt. Like she’d be fun to take a class from. Future thoughts. I’m also signed up for the SAQA conference in April; looking forward to that, although some of the events start right when school ends, which could be complicated. We’ll see. My current QuiltCon project, by the way, looks like this.
That’s not much there. It might become more. We’ll see.
I did some other stuff, embroidery finishing, then piecing, and putting borders on, but it’s a recent Sue Spargo piece that hasn’t been published yet, so I can show anything but the cat guarding one of the spools of thread.
Just know I’ve been working on it and it will eventually show up here, probably in the next month or so. Mostly brainless easy stuff that I can do when nothing else is working.
Saturday, we did a longer hike (it was actually 1.4 miles shorter than it was supposed to be, not sure why)…this is another Coast to Crest challenge hike, from 2019-2020 though. It starts in Del Dios Highland Preserve, on the Lake Hodges side.
And basically it goes up 1100′ in less than a mile, no switchbacks. It’s not impossible…just hard.
And then at some point, you cross over into Elfin Forest Recreational Forest. This is not all the way up.
But we didn’t start that high up, for sure.
Spring has started to show up.
The point is to get to the Lake Hodges overlook, but you walk by Olivenhain Reservoir to get there.
It was the longest 6 miles I’ve ever done. It just felt hard.
Although the weather was perfect…cool with a breeze.
So yeah, we started at the level of Lake Hodges…down there.
Yeah. So my legs are still feeling it two days later.
Mostly flat. Literally 1365′ feet up and then back down. Averages out.
Anyway. Not a bad hike…might be easier to go up the Elfin Forest side? Hard to say.
Hey! There’s my piece in the California Fibers: Historical References show that is currently open in Los Angeles.
Yeah, mine is the big one, One of My Kind. There are appointments available to go see it, or you can see it online.
I did do the stitch down on the little owl last night…then sandwiched it.
And then fought the sewing machine and the sewing machine foot for a while and gave up and read my book. Because life is too short for fighting machines. I’ll try again tonight.
For now, I need to get some work done. A pissy parent demanding things, plus getting ready for school and teaching and all that.
Kathy Nida 