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It Was Spring Yesterday

Today it's cold and blustery. I just noticed that the Bradford pears and the plum trees and an apple tree were in bloom. Looks like white clouds. Of course, the Japanese magnolia is blooming.

 

 

The doggies are playing-this is Belvedere and Baron (Bo was next to me in the flowerbed)  in a moment when they weren't trying to chew on each other. Baron came from the shelter in the next county-he is Lab and Great Pyrenees. Baron was adopted, but did not get along with a 12-yr-old cat in the household. We have been feeding him, and Bo, satin balls to fatten them up a little.

 

 

I had been planning to make gumbo all week, but finally got it in the Crock-Pot today. (No chilies) It has sausage, chicken, shrimp and crab (fake). The okra kinda dissolved, so I might cook it for a shorter time next batch.

 

 

I got to the thumb gusset of the second of the Susie Rogers' Reading Mitts, then put them down to make Cable Curtain Tie Backs for the room-darkening curtains for my office. I also got some of the 3M Command hooks that will not damage the wall. The yarn is Sugar and Cream in Earth Ombre from stash I bought during a market bag phase. (I never finished one)

 

 

 

 

 

 

One October Leaves Mitt

In this case, Harvest Wind mitts too. That's the color name of the yarn-- Springvalley Yarns by Alabama Fiber Dreams Simply Fingering...With A Twist! I had put it aside in order to finish the second sock in the last post. It is a little  hard to photograph your own hand with a mitt while trying to show the cables on both sides.

 

More Mitt

I have finished the leaf gusset of the October Leaves mit, so I took it out to find an autumnal photo settng. The yarn is Springvalley Yarns by Alabama Fiber Dreams Simply Fingering...With A Twist! in the Harvest Wind colorway. The yarn has a nice twist and the colors are just the right color for the fall leaf motif on the gusset.

October Leaves Mitts

Well, I started them a few days before the end of October. These are October Leaves fingerless mitts, in Harvest Wind color from Springvalley Yarns by Alabama Fiber Dreams Simply Fingering...With A Twist!

Still Cables

I am still working on the Cabled Button Wrap and have finished the buttonholes. It is getting dark earlier, and I had to run out and take photos as soon as I got home from work today. The yarn is Plymouth Royal Llama Silk.

I did start yet another project, Not Socks, and even managed to knit 5 rows on both at once, until it started driving me crazy. It is not photogenic yet.

Knitting Again

First, a garden photo. I planted a handful of shallots and one came up. The flash went off in the shade. Another one is sprouting.

Someone is tired. What else is new?

Belvedere, Ursula and Beau's back

Our new addition, Beauregard. Beau lost part of his ear when he was a puppy. Think he got the muzzle scar then too. DH's friend brought the dog to us  from Birmingham. Beau is wagging his whole body and grabbing biscuits out of Belvedere's mouth.


OK, I have been knitting on the 3 Button Wrap in Plymouth Llama Silk. It is a burgundy color.  Yes, I did have fun taking pictures. The last two are more like the color.

 

 I went searching for the three buttons for the wrap on Etsy, and found polymer clay ones at Rock  Paper Scissors.

New Project

What other knitting/sewing/crochet projects that are already started? I started Plymouth's 3 Button Wrap, Pattern 1164, in their Royal Llama Silk yarn in burgundy. (Despite its pink appearance in the sun.) This is a nice pattern, and the yarn feels very smooth and soft.  The seed stitch rib is more interesting than usual rib, and when you get tired of rib, there is the cable pattern.

There will be fewer bugs in the rosemary plant, I do believe.

Oh yeah, I forgot to note that since I have so much trouble finding Kash's Mayan Harvest Bake frozen entrees, I try to make something similar on occassion. It has polenta, grain pilaf,  black beans, sweet potato, kale, pineapple mango chipotle salsa and plaintains. Pumpkn seeds are sprinkled on top.

 

Evidence of Knitting

See I do knit. Actually, I finished this sweater, Zoe from C2Knts, a few weeks ago, but just got around to weaving in the ends and blocking. It is almost dry, then I have to sew on a couple of buttons. The yarn, Cascade Cotton Club, is not that blue, but is a greener teal.

I really like the cable and lace pattern, can you tell?

Look at those purty handmade buttons from Four Eyes Designs on Etsy.

Today for lunch I went out and picked a couple of tomatoes-their production has slowed way down. I made a Tomato Basil Mozzarella Pie, my version of this recipe.

 

Multi-hued Tomatoes, Teal Sweater and Red Flowers

I finished the Zoe cardi, out of the Cascade Cotton Club yarn. I made the body a little shorter and the sleeve a little longer. I stll used almost all the 7 skeins of yarn. It still needs ends woven in and blocking. It is teal, a little greener than this flash photo.

We have tons of green tomatoes, and a few are getting ripe. We have big ones and little ones and yellow, red, green, and orange tomatoes. The Brandy Boy here is larger than my two fists put together. On the left is a Cherokee Purple, what I think is a Better Boy, and on the right is a Costoluto Genovese

All three plants in the Topsy Turvy tree are loaded with maters too.

I think this is a young ladybug on the edamame.

My hairdresser gave me a little bitty perwinkle (vinca) plant for Mother's Day last year. It got really big and broke in half during a thunderstorm. We put the halves in two pots and now both are blooming their heads off. DH has been nursing them through the winter.

 

 

In Which We Go for a R-i-d-e

DH made the mistake of asking Belvedere if he wanted to go car-car. So he was excited for a couple of days. Belv needed routine shots and was limping. I think it is from a broken toenail-but he wasn't letting the vet look at it after he stuck needles in his back. I have to get heavy duty nail clippers, as I could only trim a little bit of the nail.

Anyway, that morning Belv looked very disappointed when I went grocery shopping without him, so when DH went to clean out the back of the truck cab, he was determined to go in the truck. So we got to the vet early. Most of the way, Belv had the front part of his body and legs on the center console between us. He was a pretty good boy, even when a  brave Chihuahua yipped at him. Belv always attracts a lot of attention, and people want to know his weight (187) and how much he eats.

He knows where we are-but he likes going to the vet.

OK, I will get off the console. He lay down, with his nose between the console and the passenger seat.

Yes, I have been knitting, still on Zoe. The yarn, Cascade Cotton Club, is a little greener than this.