I went to the pool today for the first time and it was an enjoyable experience. You have to shower before you can go into the pool, which is outdoors and heated naturally by all of the geothermal activity.  This means that you take off all of your clothes and shower with everyone else, in my case 8 teenage girls, put your swim suit on and walk outside to get into the swimming pool. Fortunately the walk was very short, the temperature was about 3 C and the pool nice and warm. Not being a very accomplished swimmer I did some water jogging and then went into the hot 37 to 39 C pool, there was another pool that was 39 to 41 C but it was too hot for me. The teenage girls were being taught by a swim coach, all kids in school take swimming lessons from the kindergarten kids all the way to high school, what a great system.  The pool is right beside the school so no bussing involved.

Back in the studio I have 3 cords completed, the 4th wet out but no felting done and one more to go.  It does not feel like I accomplished much today but making cords is hard on the hands so I did not want to abuse my hands too much so I took it as easy as I could.  Once I get the cords completed tomorrow I can get them sewn in and start the felting on the sculpture that I am creating.

I bought fish cakes for supper, they were quite good which is a good thing as there are enough for 3 more meals.  Amanda is a vegetarian and as we have been sharing supper most nights I have not been eating much meat.  So far I can’t say as I miss meat but should I smell a nice greasy burger I think I would have a good feed of beef.

Sunny and cool here again today, most mornings there is some candled ice floating in the river so breakup is happening further up the mountains.  Wish me luck getting the last two cords felted tomorrow.