Progress on the quilt, a good long hike in the out of doors…even some grading got done. I learned that when I have to grade something hard, I should do something else at the same time…like making pancakes for the next three weeks of breakfasts. Pour batter, grade a thing, flip pancakes, grade a thing, remove from pan, grade a thing. Takes care of that need to get up and scream.
So the drawing is done as of Saturday night…on Friday, I added more paper to the top and decided against another figure…
I just needed enough for some weather. I had help.
Not really. I worked on the people in the bubble…
I really don’t understand the need to tell people what to do with their uteri. It makes no sense to me unless you are willing to adopt the child and feed and clothe it and send it to school. Otherwise, why the fuck do you care? When you are the same people who are OK with immigrant children in cages. When you are the same people ranting about having to wear a mask. It makes no fucking sense. And to ignore the male part of the equation is just stupid. Women don’t get pregnant by themselves, and men can get more than one woman pregnant at a time. There’s your problem…right there. Penises and sperm. Start with those if you wanna get all high and mighty.
Still not helping, Luna.
Saturday we hiked 7 1/2 miles in the Lagunas, which was really nice.
The weather was pretty chilly when we started…
Beautiful blue skies once the clouds went away.
We started at Penny Pines, hiked to the Big Laguna Trail, then cut across…
through Horse Heaven Campground, across the road, then picked up the PCT on the other side.
I’ve done the section north of Penny Pines toward Garnet Peak, but not this piece…great views of the desert on one side, the mountains on the other.
It was definitely warmer on the desert side.
Saw a family hiking this trail…guess they don’t read.
Weird.
Took me forever to see this stick insect. The man saw it right away.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild. It was a good hike and we were back at a reasonable time for me to get some work done, which I also needed to do.
Hey, there’s a Swallowtail cocoon on my lemon tree…
And one of the caterpillars is still feeding…
So many of them disappear; I’m assuming eaten by birds.
I started this drawing on Thursday, the night I forgot to prep dinner, and then finished it Saturday night.
Kinda like it. Not sure what it’s about. But it feels huggy.
Then filled in the background on the big drawing…finished!
Although I ended up adding some lines last night just to break up some pieces more logically. Then I numbered it last night…
Which took an hour and a half…
It’s got 1513 pieces, but I know I have some a’s and b’s in there because I missed things the first time through and wanted the numbers to attempt to make sense.
My dad gave me an article about the guy who helped make the Texas Abortion bill and how he thought about getting around all the challenges. What an ass (the guy, not my dad). Seriously, couldn’t he do something with his skills that might help humanity? Save the planet? Cure disease? Not create a larger unsupported, sometimes unwanted, sometimes unneeded population? That men aren’t responsible for? Yeah. Not a fan.
Well the next step is to trace. First, though, off to work on very little sleep. I’d like to thank my brain for the first hour or so of not sleeping, and a small dog for the last hour or so. He will adapt to our new morning schedule, I think, but it will take a while. Until then, I will either need more caffeine or many naps (not likely).
I leave you with this drawing of magma that looked an awful lot like COVID…
Yeah, makes sense to me.
Kathy Nida 