More Sampling

I am doggedly stitching on the band sampler in the hopes that I will make discernible progress.  I have noted recently that I seem to frog one stitch for every two taken.  I really do not know why this is happening.  I am usually a much better stitcher than I have been of late.  I expect things will return to some sort of norm eventually.

On the other hand, I have a friend who is blaming all disruptions in personal patterns on climate change.  I have taken this pseudo-scientific theory a step further: I posit that the unusually overcast, wet and cool summer following so rapidly upon a brutal winter with barely the transition of a very bizarrely fluctuating spring has disrupted my circadian rhythms.  I am blaming the population spikes in frogs and household gremlins on climate change as well. I defy one and all to prove me wrong!

Anyway, today has been spent frogging the spiral border across the top and side on the right.  I still have a bit more frogging to do, as you can see.  It is rather tedious and I can only do so much before wanting to hit something or, worse yet, someone.  Best to cease and desist while I am still in a relatively civilized state of mind.  I then finished filling in the spiral border on the left and began work on the first floral motif on the right side.  Admittedly, this isn't a great deal of progress but I am still wiped out from yesterday's Spirit Day with my 8th graders.  Spending a full day [7:00 am - 4:00 pm] with 50 8th graders can wear one down.  They have so much more energy than I do.  I believe I exhausted my reserves yesterday.  So, today has been an exercise in slow motion.  It does seem the best way to avoid any further frogging.