On this glorious first weekend of warm weather I went for an amazing 7 mile hike here:
Yes, the whole trail is rock steps and hills. It kicked my ass.
I am really lucky that I have a hiking buddy but she's leaving for grad school on the East Coast in July and I will need to find someone else to hike with... I'm also going to be far away from one of my closest gal-pals and I'm going to miss her a lot. It's rare that I have friends who are self-identified women who I am actually close to and it always sucks when they go away (even if they have great educational opportunities awaiting them).
The temperatures are hitting the 80's which means it is time to turn on the AC! This is not the first time we've turner on the air this year (the first time was when we had 80+ temps in March and 50 people over for a party) so we knew it was working. So we turn on the air and... it's not getting cooler in the house. Bummer. We found an AC repair company on Angie's List and they're coming out tomorrow to have a look but in the mean time we are just a bit too warm. All the windows are open and the fan is on so it's not as bad as it could be but sleeping was difficult last night.
In other exciting news, I am making a silk bliaut for recreationist fun! The dress is brown silk, about the color of my hair with a pale pink linen underdress (the pink is just about the color of my skin) and it has a dark blue, almost black, silk lining the maunches (giant sleaves) and edging the neckline. I'm basing the cut of the dress off of the woman on the left here:
My maunches are going to be slightly longer though.
I also plan to get hair extensions to make my 'braids' as long as hers and twine ribbon in them like hers. I hope to make a pair of turn shoes out of leather to go with the outfit as well so I have the whole thing. I am currently thinking of using either the forest-green leather or the dark purple leather that we already have for the shoes... I guess I will decide based on how much I have of each.
Yay for crafting and hikes, boo for no AC.
