Sunday Rundown

I've been taking some chiding about my late blog entries, so here I am, gettin' on the blogging stick ("blog on a stick"! Could be a new offering at Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, I'm thinking...) No, I'm not going to Maryland this year, but I am going to several other festivals -- which makes this year way different than last, when I couldn't go to any.

I've finished my run for the day, made myself a nice cup of coffee, and I'll gladly give you a little bit of a rundown for Sunday. Speaking of the run, I did not get to do my third run of Week 2 of Couch to 5K last week, so I stuck with Week 2 protocol for today. I am torn between progressing to Week 3 on my next run day, Tuesday, and sticking with Week 2 until I can run it with absolutely no pain. Since "absolutely no pain" may be unattainable for me, I will settle for "very minor pain," and today was not too bad at all in that regard. So I will see how I feel on Tuesday, and make a decision then. But I definitely see some improvement and progress, and this is good.

I am in a great mood, and I feel strong, because look! The sky is BLUE. The sun is OUT.

It is windy and freezing as all get out, but at least the sky is BLUE and the sun is OUT!

I spent yesterday knitting and felting this whilst watching almost too many episodes of The Tudors.

I thought it would be AWESOME, but turns out it felted looking like green muddy crap. Do.not.like. So I'm back to square one on that project.  "That project" is to rebuild a little collection of felted bags for use in an upcoming class series that I am going to teach on little felted bags. Yeah, I know, ME TEACH? It makes me laugh, too. But Ellen at Grand Isle Art Works insisted that I have some knowledge to impart, so what'm I gonna do but say YES to Ellen? After all, she has a new yellow Lab puppy named Elvis. I am just weak against The Elvis, though I have not yet met him in person. Minor detail. Yellow puppy. What's not to love?

Anyhoo, the Elvis Felted Bag Series (that is not really the name of it, and it really has nothing at all to do with Elvis, though wouldn't that be fun?) is in June at Grand Isle Art Works. It would be super-cool if you are a local and you wanted to sign up. I will try not to sound too stupid and will try to actually teach something. Srsly.

Speaking of stupid: When I said yes to this project, I said to Ellen, "I have a big collection of felted bags of all sorts that I have made over the years, for me and my daughter. I can bring them for show 'n' tell."

Stupid.

Because I had forgotten that I had donated all but four of the bags to various church bazaars and Goodwill over the last year or so.  

So my big collection is only four. Thus, I am in a little bit of a felting frenzy over here -- or I will be, in the next couple of months.  Which is quite ok, because I'm in a GOOD MOOD! And the sky is BLUE! And the sun is OUT! 

And I love my new camera. It's a big step up from my previous cameras, and it is my first DSLR, so I feel like quite the grownup. And I can get bat-out-of-hell-running shots of Mr. Jefferies, like this:

I keep on threatening to pot up my little seedlings, but so far they are still where you last saw them. 

Mr. Jefferies has been watching The Tudors with me. He picked up a few things, such as:

 

Comments

[Leslie]

Srsly, this is so unfair! Even the weatherperson says we're having January temperatures. April 1st is this coming Friday, I wonder what it will be -- a snow storm or 75?

[Kayten]

The cold and wind impinged on my ability to fully enjoy the blue and sunny day, though I tried. I am still not sleeping well, and my husband woke me out of a sound sleep for a non-emergency phone call this morning. This may have colored my attitude toward the rest of the day.
Love the bat-out-of-hell photo.

[noonie]

ooooooh Elvis...... sorry Mr J

[Tola]

as i told my husband today, the sunshine was just for pretty; no warmth, just beauty.

[Lindsay]

I feel annoying and preachy, but I run regularly, and it ALWAYS hurts. I love it anyway. It's totally bizarre, but the pain for me is just a part of it. It's not injury pain, just "Boy do my shins (or)ankles (or)hamstrings hurt."

Keep at it, it does get easier.

[Beverly]

Hilarious final picture!

[Nike Duck Shoes]

your website is so great that i love it very much. thank you for sharing it with us.

[Seanna Lea]

I haven't gotten all of my runs in this week (or last). I'm hoping that I do better, because I really need to be comfortable at the 9-10 mile range to have a good half marathon and it is better if I am comfortable at the 12 mile range (there is a bit of a duh there). I downloaded the C25K app, just to make the outdoor running a little more enjoyable. The cold kills me!

[Carole]

I love my "Norma Bag," the felted bag you inspired when we visited you! You'll be great teaching this class. And oh, that puppy photo. Elvis looks just like my Dixie did when she was a wee one.

[Konna]

Oh, that last picture just slays me! lol Love the pic of Elvis....too sweet! We had some sunny, blue sky yesterday and it was beautiful! What brand is your new DSLR toy?

[gayle]

Yeah, we had that same blue-sky/sunshine/bitter-wind-howling-down-from-the-north-pole over here. What a tease that sunshine was...
If you need some more felted bags for show and tell, I've got some small and smallish ones I could loan you.

[Joannah]

bat-o-hell + cutie-sleep = totally justified camera purchase!

Thank God for the sun and the blue, cause the temps leave something to be desired.

[elizabeth]

Ah, I wish Netflix would put the other seasons of The Tudors on Instant! I watched the first two seasons over a weekend and really want to see the rest. Watch Instantly is like, the best thing since sliced bread!

[Cookie]

Seriously? People are whinging about when you blog?! They should be THANKFUL you have time to blog.

Do you want the felt bag I made out of SWS? It's got the bamboo-ish handles. Lemme know. I can drop it in the mail tomorrow... assuming I can find it. *L*