Life has taken over.

 Life has taken over.  It’s the only excuse I have for not posting in the last 6+ months!  

Caring for my husband still takes up much of my day.  He has 1.5 more months of physical therapy to do, and even once he’s done, he still won’t be able to dress and get his prosthetic leg and brace strapped on by himself.  

As doing this requires many trips up and down off the floor and requires exertion to get the leg pulled up all the way onto the shrinker, it takes a bit too much energy from me, so we’ve begun to look into getting an aide for an hour or so every morning, to get him showered, dressed, and get his leg on.  At which point, he can get about using the walker, with the arm extensions I bought recently.  These should help him be more stable, as his hands are so twisted with arthritis, he can’t grab and hold onto anything easily any more.

Of course, the problem with getting an aide is that Medicare doesn’t cover it, and they all charge more per hour than I have been able to earn with my patterns and handspun yarns.  

But, to this end, I bought a used original Louet S10, which allows me to spin 200 g/7 oz skeins of my Falkland wool yarns, which turns out to have been a good idea – I’m finding that crafters are preferring the larger skeins.  

I just got in a new 29 lb. bump of wool top, which I’ll be spinning up, even as the warmer weather descends (causing sales to plummet).  I plan on weaving with my handspun, as soon as I can get to it, after an AC is installed upstairs, as that’s where the 45” floor loom now resides! 

As it’s May, I *want* to be outside working in the garden, as I couldn’t at all last summer, but I don’t have the luxury of using up my energy on gardening, not yet anyway, when I need to tend to his needs, which includes bringing him food, liquids, and pills 6x/day.  I am NOT a happy camper when I get overwrought from too much work!  Not the least because it makes it impossible to fall asleep, even with the plethora of things I take so I *can* sleep.  

But if I’m lucky, and we can find a reasonably priced aide to come every day, starting in June, it should free up some of my time, so I can re-mulch the beds, feed all the perennials, plant the tomatoes, and make the bamboo teepees for them.  And get to weave.  I’m 67, but I sure could use the energy I had when I was 37!  

Onward, to, hopefully, better times!
Dawn