Tuesday, August 19, 2025

What's the Story, Morning Glory!

 


The morning glories on the fence have started to bloom.


We might get tomatoes soon. We are having a drought so the pots need to be watered.

Things are not as bushy as they were last year.

The two main men in my life left on an adventure, this morning. They are off exploring Vancouver Island. Meanwhile, I have the house to myself, and I can think of lots of things to do but too many of them sound like work.

I have finished 3 of the requested 6 baby socks. I also started the second sock of the July/August socks.


I made the smaller adventurer a pair of cargo shorts to take with him.


Four pockets!

It was the cats' Gotcha Day. They got their favourite chicken to celebrate their third year with us.



Mudd is looking for his chicken, while Emme is chilling under her chair in the sun room.




We said good bye to our Doug Dog . He has been my big goofy companion for nearly 11 years. The house feels very empty without him.



Sunday, August 10, 2025

We're Having a Heat Wave

The current temperature, according to the thermometer in my kitchen window, is 35C. which is 95F if you don't speak Canadian. I sat outside for awhile, but I am now hiding in the A/C.  I'm a delicate little flower, who wilts when I get too warm.

Yesterday, I was doing some sewing prep in the basement'


I'm using my lovely big table to tape together a pattern for cargo shorts. The young man in my life likes lots of pockets in his shorts. The printer paper turned up during the great cleanup. so I figured I would use it to print my patterns. 


This is the fabric. It also turned up in the great cleanup.

I received requests for 3 pair of baby socks.  So my evening knitting has been the little socks.


I finished the red sock, but was having a hard time casting on the second sock in the late evening, so I cast on a blue one. They will all get done in the end.

I finished the first sock of my July/ Aug. pair.


I broke my usual rule and didn't immediately cast on the second sock. However, it is up next, after the baby socks.

In my buy Canadian effort, I found this yarn. It is actually from a very local hand dyer, and the yarn is from Ontario sheep and goats, and spun in Ontario.



They look like they might like to become mosaic socks or gloves or?

The heat is suppose to continue into the week. If you are looking for me, I'll be in the basement.