Good Morning!
And welcome to July. We had some good rain yesterday which seems to have cleared the air a bit. Geesh but it was a hot and humid weekend. I hope your weekend was a good one. Mine was good despite the awful weather. There was cooking, knitting, reading, stitching, just sitting, sipping wine - all the things that I love.
Fletch had an appointment Friday morning, so while he was out of the house, I took advantage of the time to turn on the oven and make the promised peach/rhubarb crostata. Oh my!
It really was delish! And there is even some left in the frig!! While that was baking, I stepped onto the patio and spied a little visitor:
Such a beautiful and delicate creature. The picture is not the greatest, but each time I moved to get into a better position to capture it on my camera, it would fly up and around and then land again.
We had a modest amount of rain Saturday evening, so Sunday Fletch went out to the garden and pulled all the garlic. We (He) managed to get some nice heads...others are a bit small, but the scent is wonderful!
Fletch will be hanging the stalks on the patio to dry. We will share some with Colin & Mailing too. Last Fall Fletch planted some at their house, but the squirrels dug each and every clove up! Never would have imagined that squirrels liked garlic...
Sunday afternoon I finally finished the 2nd Fairy Maiden sock.
I say finally because these were such a PITA to knit. First of all the initial stitch on each DPN is a purl stitch. I dislike starting with a purl stitch. The pattern is 8 rows long. The first 3 rows of the pattern have cables (both front and back) as well as some yarn-overs, SSK and K2together. I can do all those things, but I guess because I was knitting with DPNs it was more fiddly and awkward. I was continually messing up my stitch count (either dropping stitches or adding some). THIS is a link to the free pattern on Ravelry in case anyone wants to make themselves crazy. LOL. And here is a picture showing a close up of the very pretty pattern:
Pretty but still a PITA to knit! I'm glad to have knit them but I'm betting I will never knit this pattern again! LOL. (The yarn is from The Farmer's Daughter - April's Sock Squad yarn)
Finally, I will end this lengthy post with yet another picture. When I came downstairs at 6 to turn the coffee on, look what I saw outside:
Two little fawns resting on the grass. So sweet. They didn't stay there long after Mabel went outside. (Picture taken through our door so that I wouldn't disturb the little darlings.)
Well, time to finish my first cup of coffee and then hop in the shower. May July fill you with wonder and bring you much joy!
