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Signs of Spring?
I was picking up some paperwork from QC this morning and noticed that one of the cherry trees had recently exploded into bloom. A couple days ago I was thinking of performing the First Lawn-mowing of Spring this weekend, but it rained again last night, so that's postponed for at least another week.
Wednesday night I had another one of those vivid and transparent anxiety dreams: for some unknown reason, I was moving to Arizona -- immediately, like, today -- and I need to contact the mortgage company to tell them to cancel the whole deal. I'll be glad when the paperwork is all done and I can move on to anxiety dreams about blocked plumbing and termites. Obviously, the mortgage didn't close this week, but we're moving steadily forward. The title company got the last of the documents they needed yesterday and forwarded it to the mortgage company. I talked to my underwriter this morning and she's harrassing the relevant department to keep things expedited. It's pretty much down to signing the actual contract and telling them how much money to send where.
Yesterday evening I went off to Thread-walker's study group to do a presentation on surviving garments of the 11-12th centuries from non-Scandinavian Europe. It's always fun to infect new people with the surviving garments bug. And now I'm getting excited about doing my in-depth look at surviving albs of the 12-13th centuries and how/whether the ecclesiastical material can be used in to illuminate secular garments of the time. I really want to get back to working out how to do the pattern-gathered gores that several of these garments have. And I'd love to track down better information on dress attributed to Saint Clare, which appears to have the same basic construction and -- if the traditional description of it is accurate -- is a secular garment as well as being the only woman's garment of the type that I've found. Hmm, the original page I found it on is gone, but the wayback machine has it here.
Wednesday night I had another one of those vivid and transparent anxiety dreams: for some unknown reason, I was moving to Arizona -- immediately, like, today -- and I need to contact the mortgage company to tell them to cancel the whole deal. I'll be glad when the paperwork is all done and I can move on to anxiety dreams about blocked plumbing and termites. Obviously, the mortgage didn't close this week, but we're moving steadily forward. The title company got the last of the documents they needed yesterday and forwarded it to the mortgage company. I talked to my underwriter this morning and she's harrassing the relevant department to keep things expedited. It's pretty much down to signing the actual contract and telling them how much money to send where.
Yesterday evening I went off to Thread-walker's study group to do a presentation on surviving garments of the 11-12th centuries from non-Scandinavian Europe. It's always fun to infect new people with the surviving garments bug. And now I'm getting excited about doing my in-depth look at surviving albs of the 12-13th centuries and how/whether the ecclesiastical material can be used in to illuminate secular garments of the time. I really want to get back to working out how to do the pattern-gathered gores that several of these garments have. And I'd love to track down better information on dress attributed to Saint Clare, which appears to have the same basic construction and -- if the traditional description of it is accurate -- is a secular garment as well as being the only woman's garment of the type that I've found. Hmm, the original page I found it on is gone, but the wayback machine has it here.