Walking with your eyes closed

Have you ever had the feeling you are walking with your eyes closed? Lately I have felt this way. I just get through things enjoying the moment and not really thinking too much about where I will be tomorrow. And it has been nice. For now. I go outside my home and look at the bamboos, the flowers, the sweet potato that I’ve been propagating lately and that was looking very upset for a while and that it’s been taking over the spaces left around the plants in my front yard. I got so excited a couple of days ago because every time I go to check my mail I hear a sound on a tree but I couldn’t figure out what it was. But I saw a perfectly round hole on a dead limb. I took my friends there the other day with their son who loves looking for birds and who is actually teaching me a lot about appreciating birds lately and his father said, this is a nest! And while we were debating about it we saw a woodpecker coming in the hole and feeding his little babies. Wow, that was so exciting! We couldn’t get over it. I go there all the time to check on the little babies, and they are already peeking out of the nest looking for their mom.

¿Has tenido alguna vez la sensacion de estar andando con los ojos cerrados? Ultimamente me he sentido asi. Paso las cosas disfrutando del momento y sin pensar realmente mucho sobre donde estare mañana. Y me gusta. Por ahora. Salgo fuera de casa y me paso el dia mirando los bambus, las flores, la planta de boniato que he estado propaganda ultimamente y que tenia muy mala pinta pero que por fin esta rellenando los huecos vacios entre las plantas de mi jardin. Hace un par de dias me emocione porque cada vez que voy a ver mi buzon oigo un ruido en un arbol pero no caia en lo que era. Pero lo que si vi fue un agujero perfecto en una rama vieja. Lleve a mis amigos a verlo y su hijo, a quien le encanta buscar pajaros y de quien estoy aprendiendo mucho de como apreciarlos ultimamente, y su padre dijo, ¡es un nido! Y mientras estabamos discutiendo sobre el tema vimos a un pajaro carpintero que venia al agujero a alimentar a sus bebes. ¡Jo, que emocionante! No nos lo creiamos. Ahora voy cada dos por tres a visitar a los bebes, y ya se estan asomando del nido para buscar a su mama.


I went crazy in the fabric store today. All because of these sales that I remember the first times going to this store, we were thinking they were so exclusive that we HAD to go and my husband used to laugh at Gisele and I because actually they are always on sale in that store and we really don’t need an excuse to search for fabrics. Anyways, it was the Independence Day weekend sale and it was really good deals all the way. I also finished my first skirt and I was so pleased with the results that I decided to buy some other fabrics to make more…and also a shirt that I have no clue how that’s going to work out…
But this has been an energy-draining week, and all the ideas I have flying in my head, are just flying and not really turning into handmade reality, no power to cut, think, measure, sew or paint. Maybe next week.

Me volvi loca hoy en la tienda de telas. Todo por estas ofertas que me acuerdo que las primeras veces que ibamos a la tienda, pensabamos que eran tan exclusives que TENIAMOS que ir a y mi marido se solia reir de Gisele y yo porque en realidad siempre estan de ofertas en esa tienda y no necesitamos excusas para buscar telas. Pero de todos modos, era la venta del fin de semana del dia de la Independencia y la verdad es que si que habia buenas ofertas. Tambien acabe mi primera falda y estaba tan contenta con los resultados que decidi comprar mas telas para hacer mas…y tambien una camisa que no tengo ni idea de como va a salirme eso…Pero ha sido una semana que me ha chupado toda la energia, y todas las ideas que estan volando por mi cabeza, estan simplemente volando y no se van aconvertir en verdades hechas a mano, no tengo fuerza para cortar, pensar, medir, coser o pintar. Quizas la semana que viene.


And today is 9 months since my husband was hit by a careless driver. Today is 9 months since I last saw him. And soon is going to be the same amount of time that he spent with his son. Time flies.

Y hoy hace 9 meses desde que mi marido fue atropellado por un conductor que no presto atencion. Hoy hace 9 meses desde la ultima vez que le vi. Y pronto va a ser el mismo tiempo que paso con su hijo. El tiempo vuela.