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I bicycled to work today. I think that's the fourth time this spring. I took the trail through the woods just after the get to Prospect Hill Park (the Butterick trail) and didn't get lost this time. Checking the map on the lunchtime walk, I think the place I was lost last time is just outside the park boundary; I think that's land that belongs to Polaroid.
The lunchtime walk was pretty good from the naturalist point of view. We got a clear look at the red-bellied woodpecker, and I think I saw two white throated sparrows (but I didn't get so good a look at them. Maybe they were Savannahs. The ladies slippers have pushed leaves up above ground, but are still probably a week from blooming. There were a couple of birdsfoot violets in bloom along the trail up the ski slope.
I indexed something over 150 stamp mounts of 26 different designs. I didn't think there was enough space on the workbench for them all, but somehow I got them to fit. There was plenty of room until I got to the last five of the first 24 designs. At that point I was too close to being finished to want to put any off for another night, so I squeezed them in. The remaining two designs were from a more recent order, and I hadn't got the blank mounts and indexing stamps (OK, what am I talking about? I use one stamp that's reserved for the purpose to stamp the image on the back of the wood mount for each stamp we make) ready for those two. I was undelighted to find that neither of those stamps took a mount that I had in stock, and I had to go back to the table saw to cut mount strips down to size. But it still seemed that it would be worth while not to have to set it all up again tomorrow or the night after.
No knitting today; I'm sticking to my resolution to work on my shirts next. I did press down the hems on the sleeves of the red-orange shirt, but didn't sew them yet. Every little bit.
That's my finished Good Ole Cable Scarf, just about six feet long. I had to wash out the color a little to show the pattern. It's Cascade 220, color Cordovan.
