Fiber Fool

February this year has been a rough one. Last February was too. For different reasons. Both Februarys included last minute trips to MN due to good airfare prices. Despite many positive things from this month such as the trip to MN and Gaston’s lovely goodbye it seems all of it has been somewhat shadowed over by pain. I don’t like to go on about my chronic pain issues here much. I’ll mention it briefly so you understand why my posts are a little flatter than normal or why I may not be commenting on other blogs too often or replying to the comments you’ve left and then I leave it at that. I suspect the those who see me in real life on a regular basis have realized that it has been a pretty rough month for me. I’ve pretty much been on that pile of drugs above for most of the month. It seemed the most representative image of the month.

As for how 365 is going? I kind of dropped the ball this month. I didn’t miss any days until I went to MN and that kind of broke my habit. Then I came back and was out of the habit and was dealing with all the pain stuff and it got easy to let a day slip here or there. We also did little entertaining this month because the house has been stinky so that left me with little to photograph. Well, little photograph easily anyway. We all know my fall back photo subject is food! But, March is a new month and there is talk of a food related gathering for Purim this weekend instead of fika so hopefully March will be filled with more pics.

Thanks to everyone who helped me out yesterday! I have downloaded the manual for my machine. Not that is was particularly helpful for more than identifying the accessories, but now I’ve got it when I need it. Also, thanks for the buttonhole encouragement. If I’m lucky you’ll get to see what I’ve made as ECF and FO Friday.

I think I can call the first thirty days of Project 365 a succes. Of the thirty days, I took 28 photos on different days. I did cheat a tad on January 2nd and 26th. The first was because I heard about the idea on the 3rd and I hadn’t taken any photos on the second and I really liked the idea of photodocumenting 2007 as a whole. The photo on the 26th was not taken on the 26th as my meds and pain levels had me a little out of it and I totally spaced taking a photo that day. I’m not officially a part of the project so I don’t think any Project 365 police will be pounding down my door for cheating a tad. The idea of the project is to take more photos more consistently and it has certainly acted as a photographic catalyst.

I did not choose any specific theme for January. Instead, I wanted to post photos that were a snapshot of the day in some form. I ended up with an interesting smattering of photo subjects (some were double classified):

• 2 shots of Emma
• 2 Miscellaneous Objects of the Day
• 3 shots of various parts of my body
• 3 shots of people (I took a lot more, but my candid people photography leaves a lot to be desired)
• 3 shots of computers
• 3 fiber related shots
• 7 weather/nature related shots
• And, surprise, suprise - 8 food shots

I am sure most of you are not surprised that I ended up with so many food shots in my line up. However, I bet you would be surprised if I said I tried as best I could to mix it up. Originally I had only wanted to use one food shot per week. My food shots ended up being my fall backs when other shots just were not up to public viewing standards. Yes despite the copious number of pictures upload to Flickr there are many, many photos that don’t get seen by anyone other than me (and occasionally DH if he is rummaging through the server looking for cheese photos for his blog).

My lack of focus this month in 365 has made the 007 Snap a Dozen Days a bit of a challenge. When I think back on January I think of friends and food. January started off enjoying wonderful food made by DH’s family. I think every weekend we have had people over at least one time, if not three. There were Friday night dinners and Sunday afternoon fikas many of the weekends. It seems filling our table with good food to feed to our friends and family was a wonderful way to ease post-holiday let downs and fight the long winter nights. This year the gloom of January has been much strong than in years past, but the warmth in our home has been much stronger as well.

Since most of my friend pictures are boring shots of people sitting around our dining room table with a revolving cast of characters, it seems the most fitting of photo sets for 007 is that of the food we have shared with everyone this month…