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It's late July and all of my knitting sites are talking about Christmas. *headdesk*
In other news, here it's still mid summer and my world revolves around my garden. And putting up stuff. Last week it was peaches.
Since it's still difficult to get canning lids, and yes, please insert a "grrrr," instead of using the usual pints, I used quart jars. Thirteen of those beauties are now on the shelves. The tomatoes have just begun to really come on. Last year or so, I learned about freezing tomatoes. Now, the texture isn't right due to the freezing, but summer ripe tomatoes, even in February, still make killer ceviche and they also easily turn into sauce. Bag number two is in the inside freezer, and I believe the first two bags will soon make the journey to the big freezer in the garage. Every tomato must be used! Next month will be purchased pears. Our pears won't be ready until September at the earliest, and most of them are autumn varieties.
The garden would be a lot more fun, if California wasn't in the midst of a drought. Again. Our well is doing fine so far; however, i see water delivery trucks refilling tanks all over the place. Our neighbors are farmers, and they've declared this current crop as the season's last. The local rivers are really low. The old saying that "whiskey's for drinking and water's for fighting" is starting to come true locally. The places the water trucks usually fill up at are now coming under those locality's scrutiny. Won't even start ranting about all the illegal "grows" that are taking water. Crossing everything that we make it until the rainy season.
Assuming I get both time and non-swollen knuckles, there's a sweater ready to cast-on. I'm having problems getting the yarn I want to do the next, true sweater project. That one requires a lot of color work. It's been years since my last Fair Isle project. The practice sweater has all of sixteen or so rows and is two colors only, plus it's an aran weight project. Of course, I'm lacking the proper shade for the contrast color, but as that's all of one skein, I can hurl money in a small amount to the aether and get a reasonable yarn this week.
Currently reading "Cibola Burn" in the Expanse series.
Currently watching "Wild Wild Country" on Netflix. Can't believe that I don't remember anything about this, but hey, it was the eighties and I was either just getting out of college or just starting my career around the time this happened.
And currently waiting out the headache caused by the smoke from some fire somewhere from Oregon to Redding or so. C'mon Ibuprofen!
Cross-posted from dreamwidth.org
In other news, here it's still mid summer and my world revolves around my garden. And putting up stuff. Last week it was peaches.
Since it's still difficult to get canning lids, and yes, please insert a "grrrr," instead of using the usual pints, I used quart jars. Thirteen of those beauties are now on the shelves. The tomatoes have just begun to really come on. Last year or so, I learned about freezing tomatoes. Now, the texture isn't right due to the freezing, but summer ripe tomatoes, even in February, still make killer ceviche and they also easily turn into sauce. Bag number two is in the inside freezer, and I believe the first two bags will soon make the journey to the big freezer in the garage. Every tomato must be used! Next month will be purchased pears. Our pears won't be ready until September at the earliest, and most of them are autumn varieties.
The garden would be a lot more fun, if California wasn't in the midst of a drought. Again. Our well is doing fine so far; however, i see water delivery trucks refilling tanks all over the place. Our neighbors are farmers, and they've declared this current crop as the season's last. The local rivers are really low. The old saying that "whiskey's for drinking and water's for fighting" is starting to come true locally. The places the water trucks usually fill up at are now coming under those locality's scrutiny. Won't even start ranting about all the illegal "grows" that are taking water. Crossing everything that we make it until the rainy season.
Assuming I get both time and non-swollen knuckles, there's a sweater ready to cast-on. I'm having problems getting the yarn I want to do the next, true sweater project. That one requires a lot of color work. It's been years since my last Fair Isle project. The practice sweater has all of sixteen or so rows and is two colors only, plus it's an aran weight project. Of course, I'm lacking the proper shade for the contrast color, but as that's all of one skein, I can hurl money in a small amount to the aether and get a reasonable yarn this week.
Currently reading "Cibola Burn" in the Expanse series.
Currently watching "Wild Wild Country" on Netflix. Can't believe that I don't remember anything about this, but hey, it was the eighties and I was either just getting out of college or just starting my career around the time this happened.
And currently waiting out the headache caused by the smoke from some fire somewhere from Oregon to Redding or so. C'mon Ibuprofen!
Cross-posted from dreamwidth.org