3 October …
The Headwaters Trail Runs went well last Saturday. This was the first year we used a separate Net Control rather than combine Net Control with the Liaison communicator.
The event planner gave us a set of suggested participant tracking sheets used by another run event. I think they made things easier on those radio people out on the routes, but I haven’t gotten much feedback yet.
Our club didn’t participate in the Run4salmon as a club, but two members helped the Shasta-Tehama club. Some of the horseback riders went missing for a while with one of the S-T folks. But all ended well.
I think I’d like to give that event a try next year unless it conflicts with our established schedule again.
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Temperatures indicate autumn is really here, as does the rain.
Yes … we’ve had stormy skies and rain.
But this morning we are chilled and dry.
(Just look at all the seed cones on that fir.)
Plus … the firewood shed is FULL with some overflow.
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Spinzilla is underweigh. My new schedule (as breakfast and dinner cook and on-call caregiver for Paul) doesn’t allow for as much uninterrupted spinning time as I have had previously. In addition, this older body requires get-up-an-walk-around times so I set a schedule for myself … spin for a predetermined amount of time and then take a break. Three days into the week and that is working so far.
Last year I spun 4,562 yards and the year before 5,662 yards. Who knows what I’ll be able to do this year.
I’m working with a merino-silk blend and some merino-flax-silk. The flax in the mix is causing a bit of extra work. It mats and doesn’t draw as evenly. At this point I don’t think I will use it for another Spinzilla.
Or maybe I’ll get the hang of spinning flax in a mix and learn to like it.
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Tyler has been working at a Dollar General store and he told us about a regular customer who has been coming in to buy Hallowe‘en masks which he wears. Someone asked him why and his response was quite philosophical … at least in my opinion.
He said that most people wear masks all the time and you have to guess who they really are and what they are really thinking. But he is able to take off the mask so when he then speaks to you, you can be sure who he is and what he is thinking.
Sounds reasonably thought through to me.
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We are now getting eight eggs a day. WooHoo!
No sign of molt yet. Maybe first year hens don’t molt. I don’t remember.
The leaves are turning …
and beginning to fall …
while the seeds are still adding to the carpet.
A few days ago I was looking out the window at the birch trees in a slight breeze. They were shivering,
and seen against the red maple they resembled glitter in a young girl’s hair.
Quite a nice picture … as were the deer family yesterday evening … 
a doe and fawns, one of which is a male. Look closely and you can see the horn buds on the one eating.
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Speaking of pictures … only three VanGoghs to go.
This month, coming near the end of harvest time, seems like a good time to share “Sheaves of Wheat” painted in 1890.
Heading into the abstract? What do you think?
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This family does the holidays in their proper order …
so Hallowe’en is coming.
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Thinking back to the masks …
By ignoring, rationalizing, denying, and justifying our nasty motivations and unkind behavior we feel worse in the long run, not better. A tremendous sense of relief comes when we can be honest about what we’re thinking, feeling, saying, and doing.
—Thubten Chodron,
So … ‘til next week …