Unraveled Wednesday 5/21/25

Good Morning and Happy Mid-Week!

If you click on the image at the top and enlarge, you will see that the bird in it is one of our bluebirds!!  I took that photo yesterday afternoon (look at that amazing blue, blue sky!).  The male had been on the ground so close to Fletch and me on the patio, but my phone was inside so I could not get a picture.  I was hoping he would come back, but instead he was high up.

I walked around the yard yesterday afternoon and noticed that our Siberian Iris are budded (both the deep, deep blue/purple ones and the vibrant yellow ones).  Parsley and French thyme were picked to take over to C&M today.  And, a peony has opened!  What a heady fragrance!  I would love to cut one or two for the house, but ants.....

Another heady fragrance is honeysuckle and we have some of that already in bloom which might be the earliest time ever!

Let's talk knitting!  It's Unraveled Wednesday and time to link up with Kat and her Merry Band of Unravelers to chat about what we are making and reading.  Even though I focused more on stitching this past week, I was able to do some knitting.  Semplice has grown a bit.

This is now at the point where I will start the last pattern change section.  There is still a bunch of knitting to be done as this last section has 44 rows.  Then it will be the garter stitch border which is 20 rows.  I can promise that it will not be finished this week - lol.  But, I am anxious to finish and block this one.

I even managed to do a few more pattern repeats on the dish cloth on my needles.

I think my days of dishcloth knitting will be over for a bit after this one.  Time to move on to a different easy/portable project for days spent with Iris.  Honestly I don't really get much (if any) time to knit while at C&M's, but I always bring something just in case.

Reading was good this past week.  I read The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen.  This is book #2 in the Martini Club series.  An enjoyable and easy read, and I liked this book better than the first.  When and if the author comes out with another in this series, I will most likely pick it up (from the library) to read.

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans was my next read (finished last night).  Wow!  What a wonderful book.  It gave me all the "feelies" if you know what I mean.  I just loved it and highly recommend it.

Fletch and I are continuing to enjoy One Man's Meat by E. B. White after dinner.  So enjoyable - even though this is most likely the fourth time we've read it together.  What a writer he was!  (I can't wait for Iris to be at the age where "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little" will be fun to share with her.)

There are still 6 books I am currently in queue for at my library and though it looks like some long wait times, I've learned that often they come in more quickly than I thought.  And, I still have books piled on my nightstand to get through - no danger of running out of things to read!!

Tell me, what have you been making and reading this past week?