Yesterday’s impromptu road trip was to Pineland Farms in New Gloucester. They have a lovely fenced in garden right on the main road, that you might not even know was there when you drive by. We had the place to ourselves while we were there. It’s a lovely little spot with a number of benches […]
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I’ve barely touched anything since I did my yearly planting back in June. Everything got more than enough (really too much) water with no intervention on my part. I also fortunately put down plenty of mulch in June, so despite all the water (and probably in some cases because of it), the weeds have remained
I’ve continued working on the leftover sock yarn stockings. If I really apply myself, I can complete three in one evening, though I don’t often have the time to really apply myself, so my average is about one and a half. It’s a nice easy pattern that I memorized around five stockings ago. I’ve got
Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. Cloud Atlas has a little bit of story for everyone. There’s the 19th century clerk on a ship in the South Pacific, an early 20th century aspiring composer trying to worm his way into the home and life a musical genius, a reporter from the 1970s investigating
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Since it was a lovely day yesterday, the BF and I decided to hop in the car and get out of town. Spur of the moment, we based the trip on the Patternworks store, in Center Harbor, NH. Yes, this entire trip was planned around a yarn store (though the Keepsake Quilting Store in the
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Pattern: Alpaca Sox Mini-Socks by Classic Elite YarnsYarn: Three Irish Girls Adorn sock in the Baltic Sea colorwayNeedles: 2.75 mm DPNs Pattern: Baby Socks by Lisa Henderson KnitsYarn: Three Irish Girls Adorn sock in the Baltic Sea colorwayNeedles: 1.5 DPNs I had a bit of a knitting spree since last night was a rainy night,
We finally managed to make it down to Hamilton House on Saturday, for the first time this season. And finally, we managed to pick a time when the house was actually open for tours. It was both like and unlike what I was expecting inside. The house itself was built in the late 1700s, but
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Pattern: Sock Yarn Baby HatYarn: Three Irish Girls Adorn sock yarn in the Baltic Sea colorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs My first experiment in sock yarn end usage is done. It was a pretty easy knit, if a bit boring by the end of the main stockinette tube. It looks like I have enough left of
And last, but not least, flowers and plants from Hawaii:Row 1: Unknown, unknown, leaf, banana, pomegranate, plumbago, ohia lehua, plumeria, hibiscusRow 2: Unknown, bougainvillea, plumeria, Tahitian gardenia, ginger, hibiscus, Hawaiian Cotton, rhododendron, agapanthusRow 3: Green jade, plumeria, leaf, Helconia, unknown, unknown, unknown, hibiscus, hibiscusRow 4: Torch ginger, spider lily, banana, leaf, hibiscus, unknown, unknown, orchid,
Here’s a few pictures from my last full day in Maui, which we spent wandering around Lahaina, relaxing at the resort (third picture down is the view from my balcony), and trying to catch the insanely turquoisey color of the water on figurative film.