I want to be finished with things before I have surgery.
I finished a shawl (Stripe Study), but I think I may take it apart because I made it 10 stripes rather than 12, and it’s kind of small. I’ll re-knit it, but with the dark color the main color and the oatmeal-ish color the contrast color. I theoretically had enough yarn for it, but the skein said no.
A miniature shawl–will it stay (and be given away) or will it go (ripped and re-knit)?
We (The Collar put it together, I added the soil and planted the zucchini) have another raised bed. Now we have three, and there are carrots and chard in one, and salad greens in the other old one, and the new one has zucchini.
Buttercrunch lettuce–time for salad with dinner!
Carrots
It’s planted, anyway.
The Collar dug a new bed, so we have more room for herbs and a place for cutting flowers. That was planted today, too.
A new bed, from a place we reclaimed last year.
This is our fourth year in this house (so if you are counting, when we hit late July, The Collar and I will have officially lived here for the longest time in our married lives. This is the longest stretch EVER for the boys). We’ve been working on taming the landscaping, and finding all sorts of things about our back yard, especially.
We took out a tree, and now the irises can bloom.
We have dark purple ones, too.
This year, spring has been very good for our flowers and herbs. The sage is blooming.
Flowering sage
The chives are blooming.
Chive flower
The azaleas that we planted last year are blooming (well, the red one. The white one is finished).
The red azalea
The rhododendron is still blooming.
Still blooming after all these weeks
It’s nice to have a spring.
