Cold nights warm blankets

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Yesterday we went to the farmers market and got Bulgarian pastries, zestar apples, nectarines, pears, pluots, plums, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes, jalapeños, and basil. I did the laundry and hung it out on the line.

I did some prototyping of mechanisms for the knee lever; a cable drive will work but needs the half-flatted shaft to be filled first, and mounting it in the available space will be tricky. Still thinking on alternative linkages. The problem is essentially to transform 45 degrees of rotation in yaw to 270 degrees of rotation in either pitch or roll, ideally in a rigid configuration that makes use of the spring return on the 45 degree end. Manufacturing is limited to what I can do with brass, hand tools, and a dremel.

Lunch, then P mowed the lawn and I made another batch of nut and seed bars. I cut out the welt pockets for the sleep shorts, then basted the stitching lines, re-basted them with an additional layer of fabric on the wrong side, then attached them to the shorts, pulled out the basting stitches, and cut open the hole. Dinner, crossword, more sewing and Originals, snack, sleep.