The Roving Gnome

Useful day! Spindles in the Shop!

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Useful day! Spindles in the Shop!

Today was useful! Among other things, I got some spindles finished and up in the shop! Yeah! Woot! Polishing, drilling, hook insertion and trimming, and notching! AND photographing and listing! I'll have some videos of some of that coming soon. Been a bit of a rough week, so ending up with a more productive day was a nice change. After getting the spindles made, I decided I had enough energy to actually do a bigger thing. It was a nice day, and it needed to get done so... I went out and blew the leaves off the front yard. It...

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Low on Spell Slots

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Low on Spell Slots

Expected today to be a good day, energywise. Oops! Got up in the morning without much trouble. Got the dogs fed, me medicated, got my tea. Woot!And then... surprise, wall! Could not initiate anything. Eventually I managed to sit myself down and do a tracing sketch of the Neolithic stone whorl from Mas D'Azil. Then some lunch... and apparently just that sketch used up my spell slots. Took what was supposed to be a short nap... THREE HOURS LATER... yeah. This recovered enough spell slots to cast "convert to vector and edit" And the cantrip "place on whorl"Currently I have...

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Welcome to Autumn

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Welcome to Autumn

After yesterday was rough, I let myself sleep in some this morning. Good choice, though I wasn't still back to full oomph. So I didn't try to push myself too hard today, reminding myself that if I'm only at half strength, giving my all means giving 50% not burning myself out to try for the 100% that isn't there. First I spent some time out in the unseasonably warm autumn weather. Played with the dogs, and gathered the common milkweed pods so I could scatter the seeds where I want them. Otherwise my garden that has a few would end...

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Sometimes you have rough days

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Sometimes you have rough days

Not every day is a slam dunk. Yesterday I got a fair bit done, today... not so much. Husbeast had to get up early this morning for work stuff. So, less sleep than usual. To add to the sleep fun, I have sleep apnea but my CPAP machine decided to die this weekend. So my sleep isn't as effective. And I got a fair bit done yesterday, which tends to bias my chronic illness towards a lot energy day today. This all led to my being VERY tired today. Foggy morning. With some morning visitors (a bluebird) But the sun...

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A mix of things

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A mix of things

Did a whole range of things today. Started out by drawing out a jackalope for a spindle!   A fun project. I have another jackalope spindle in mind, but it'll be a bit more involved and I may get another artist involved.Next up... actually next up was lunch. And tea.   That helped my flagging energy a bit. SO it was time to make some more spindles! I got the laser running on the ones I designed yesterday, and headed for the workshop! ::cue trumpets:: Doo doo doo doooo! Charge!Mandalorian spindle   A heavyweight plying spindle that doesn't want to...

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