Floral Friday
The flowers are continuing to bloom – hoping we can keep them going until fall! And that’s how my garden grows 🙂
Category: General blather
Tea for Two: Tazo Forager Edition
My story today starts, as my stories often do, with yarn. I recently bought a Dinosaur Eggs: A Study miniskein set from Yarnaceous Fibers, whose dinosaur and geology themed asthetic I enjoy. Along with my cool yarn, she sent me a lovely little stitch marker and a little packet of Tazo herbal tea. The tea… Continue reading Tea for Two: Tazo Forager Edition
Plant Update
I have been knitting away, but it all looks kind of like it did the last time I took pictures – there’s just more of it now 🙂 So time for an update on the plants! It’s a little hard to see, but the avocado has spouted a stem with some tiny little leaves on… Continue reading Plant Update
Flower Update
Our flowers are continuing to do pretty well, though some of them are still not quite in bloom. The upstairs planters are filling out The hanging baskets are as well – the morning glories continue to put out a bloom here and there, though there are a lot of buds developing right now. The walkway… Continue reading Flower Update
Floral Update
My laptop died last night, so I didn’t have a lot of time for knitting as we spent the evening dealing with that. However, more of our flowers are blooming away, which is lovely to see! So I have a new laptop, which I have been resisting for quite a while now, and I feel… Continue reading Floral Update
I’ve Been Living In a Wiggly World*
It’s been in the mid to upper 70’s for the last couple days, which means we are basically laying around sweating and complaining about the heat. It also means I have whipped out one of my intermittent culinary hobbyhorses. Gelatine. Not Jell-O, though I have nothing against it. I use Knox unflavoured gelatine to congeal… Continue reading I’ve Been Living In a Wiggly World*
Flower Update
I have decided to just focus on Arachne this week, and while I’m making good progress, I don’t want to just post about it every day. Also, it’s at the point where I’m just finishing the body, so it’s plain stockinette. Easy, but boring. So here’s some flower news! We got our first morning glory… Continue reading Flower Update
Happy Solstice!
For anyone wondering about our famous midnight sun This was indeed taken at midnight (2 minutes ago). It’s pretty bright out! And now we start losing daylight again. But we will still have pretty long days for the next couple months, at least. Also, belated Happy Juneteenth, and Happy Father’s Day!
Garden Report
Well, everything is surviving outside so far! The marigolds have teensy little flower buds already All four of our lilac bushes survived their first winter and have tons of flower buds And our wild rose bush is blooming away! If you garden, how is it going? Otherwise, have you seen any lovely spring/early summer flowers… Continue reading Garden Report
