I had a weird dream just before I woke up and still haven't realy woken up yet. While I was hanging around looking for jobs and waiting and applying, I apprehended two young boys (hiding in a closet?). One of them had a bizarre physical defect, sort of a bone sticking out of his knee. The woman in that office had me call Dr. Park (the boy was slightly Asian-looking). I couldn't get the phone to work, I couldn't get the number to go through. She called and we got an appointment, but I couldn't understand what she had written down, the boys were gone...So now I am trying to figure out what it meant--I think I should go to Japan and help, or do something dramatic, since I am free to go anywhere and do anything. But of course, I don't really want to leave Ray and Athens. I'm just a bit unsettled. 

Yesterday morning, the choir was singing "Hey Ho, to the Greenwood" and "It was a Lover and his Lass" for the spring equinox service, sort of an introduction to paganism. We called the corners,  East, South, West and North. Ray was the Green Man in the play, complete with a green mask and leaves glued to his beard. It was mainly children playing the parts, but some adults to fill in. He knew it was spring because he could feel his roots wiggling...We danced and paraded and had fun. Two children were dedicated by the parents, even though they were something like 5 and 8. I was reminded of my children, as always.

We stopped at Mary's and got more chicken feed. The cost of our eggs is down to about 50 cents each now, if you take the number of eggs divided by money spent on feed. There's also the coop and the chickens themselves. But we enjoy it. I am not sure they are really keeping down the bugs--they are still eating things in the garden. Yesterday we found an egg in the irises, which are blooming now. We don't know how long it's been there--hopefully only a day or two. The daffodils have started to bloom too, and a couple tulips. But it's been over a week since it rained and I need to water everything today.

We cleaned the windows in the blue room, inside and out, and Ray washed the trim in the places I had not gotten. I spent the most time working on the shade from that window, which hadn't been quite right since I made it. I spread it out on the floor in the empty room and redistributed the insulation and hand sewed it along the rings to keep it in place. It was hard work, but then Ray re-hung it and it looks much better. I need to consult with someone who knows more than me about the best way to make something like this. It is important and they are never quite right. 

We brought up the giant braided rug from the basement, and vacuumed it outside, as well as the pad that goes underneath. My grandmother made lots of braided rugs. I am sure my cousins have them in their homes, too. They are not made of rags, but best quality wool remnants that she bought to make rugs with. Then she cut them in strips and braided them and sewed them together with heavy thread and strong needles (and fingers). There is a place it is coming unsewed and is a little fragile, but fills the room. So, now we have a freshly-painted room with a rug, a window covering, and a mirror on the wall. We will move some furniture in soon. 

We had leftovers for lunch and I finished up some soup I had been making off and on for a couple days--minestrone--for supper. I made another batch of mini-quiches and they are in the freezer now. Ray had started watching a stupid movie while he was correcting papers and I was cooking--The Fantastic Four (?). I wasn't really interested; I wanted to watch the things I usually watch, so wandered around a little restlessly. Eventually it was over and we watched Wheel of Fortune, but by then I was starting to be tired and I went to bed and read for a while after that. Woke up a few times.