I've been very lazy about my daily routine for the last two weeks (probably closer to 3 if I'm being completely honest). So easy to dilly dally reading blogs or writing or surfing the 'net until I've run out of time. I do have a schedule, loose as it is. Yoga at 8:30 or 8:40, coffee at 9, breakfast at 10. Have to do my yoga routine before I eat and too often I look up and it's 9 o'clock. Oh well, too late now (yes I know there's a whole hour between 9 and 10 but that's devoted to coffee). So tonight was the first yoga class since the Monday before Christmas. O. M. G. Even the easy stuff was hard. Well maybe not hard but required more effort than usual. I fully expect to be sore tomorrow (surprisingly I wasn't).
It's so easy to fall into the lost days (basically the last two weeks of the year), doing nothing, being lazy. Takes a little effort to extract myself, start tending to things that need tending, get my butt off the couch, out from under the blanket because now winter is finally upon us...cold, warm, cold, warm, cold, warm...that's how it goes for the next two months. Monday it was in the 40˚s, today, Wednesday, it got up to 76˚. I had yet to make it over to the shop. Stretched out the holiday weekend thru Monday because it was cold. Tuesday it warmed up and was actually really nice out. Still didn't make it over to the shop but I did do my yoga (yay me!) and finally put the shower caddy up in the bathroom and did the weekly grocery shopping and took the dog for a long walk and sorted the accumulated recycling into the boxes in the garage and dumped the kitchen waste on the compost pile and cut back the freeze damaged pink and white butterfly ginger and fixed dinner. Speaking of freeze damaged plants, the big angel trumpet lost all its foliage and developing flowers but the branches still seem firm but I probably lost the porterweed as I forgot to cover it again for the third night. I had uncovered it to see how it was doing after the night in the 20˚s.
I did get over to the shop today and started doing the finish work on the luna moth. I'm not that happy with it but Marc will tell you I say that about every piece and he's probably mostly right. I tend to be very critical of my own work. Besides the major flaw, it didn't cast that well. The edges of everything are choppy and uneven. I'm not sure why. And I needed more color in the moth and maybe less in the background. Good news is it fits perfectly in the stand.
So end of day routine, close up the shop, walk the dog, get ready for yoga. We had eight people show up tonight which is unusual for a Wednesday. Monday usually has a bigger turnout but it is January and new year's resolutions and all to get in shape and work off that holiday food. By March that will have all fallen by the wayside.
Another prism of light cast by the morning sun.
