re-finding things to do

Before I begin, I have a tab open right now for Vermont Public Radio and one of the headlines is about how snuggling goats helps with anxiety and some farms are like, hell yeah you can pet the goats.    And as a person who ALWAYS pets the goats when it's an option, I can tell you they seem to love it.  

Oh! Also, on our last outing to the 'quarium, they explained that the reason the Rays are so playful and seem to actually seek out hands for underwater snuggles is that if they are very social animals and depending on how they're ray-sed (HAAHAHAH) they consider humans part of their squad or whatever.   I think animals-enjoying-human-attention is endlessly fascinating.  


Also, my family is really into switching letters around so I share this:
"When you're done pondering the orb, you can orbit the pond."

Anyway I was pondering lotsa things, especially 'what am i going to do for ME because I'm getting a little enmeshed in other people's lives".  I have a couple plans on that.

1. Unfortunately severance the show is done for a while, so I can't immerse in that - but it also means I don't have a Show for better or worse.
2. I was working on crocheting with a Woobles kit, but not feeling great at it. Meanwhile Anka's knitting up lacy shawls because she's been knitting for 30 years. I used to knit, and we go to all these yarn stores. So here's my plan:

• I got 3 mini skeins of a nice juicy wool and the Right Size knitting needles.   I am going to practice making squares (right now it's a row of 28 single knit). Maybe I'll crochet a square if I can do it properly, but the point is to practice, and get a sense of accomplishment from the small squares, and then someday I can combine them.  (I might not have the patience for a whole blanket but maybe! And what's great is that it doesn't matter.  I'm just making squares and don't need to be like 'i'll never finish this.')
• We are decluttering and now that the snow is gone I can rent a dumpster. I will do that.
• My EXCITING plan: we have a mulchy area under a carport thing that is protected from sun & rain & most wind.  Nothing will grow there. So that's where I started putting fairy garden stuff a while back.  And my winter fairy garden.   Here's the plan:
  • I'm going to remove the mulch as step one.
  • Then i want to do like a train set kinda deal with weatherproof astroturf or something, and rocks/resin pools, whatever. That's going to give me an opportunity to make something wacky that isn't solely spending money on trinkets.  But I can if i want to because fairy house stuff is cheap.
  • And I can challenge myself to use found materials but I'm not good at doing those things yet.
• Also, people want me to hike with them. I will do what i can to join.
• Also in parenting news, we got Meg to join the Special Olympics swim team, first practice is in 3 weeks,  so I hope she enjoys it and if she does that gives her something to DO on Saturdays which in turn will help me tremendously. 
• I also signed up for the county democrats mailing list and will consider Going to Things for that, and the disability family support council.