Sky scarf

Knitting Notes

Here’s the sky scarf, as of 5/31/15.     You can see in this picture that I was finally able to introduce the dark gray I bought to represent thunder.     I’ve used it four times so far.     For one thunderstorm that happened in the middle of the night, I decided to

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herb pots

Garden Notes

In which I include a single, pathetic image taken from inside my garage because it’s raining cats, dogs and probably a few sheep outside… I did make it out on Friday (took the day off) to buy some herbs: basil, Thai basil, lemon thyme, oregano, chocolate mint, nasturtiums and parsley, as well as a token

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bearded iris

Garden Notes

I’m in a weird kind of holding pattern with the garden at the moment.   One issue is that Memorial Day (one of our planting benchmarks) is on the early side this year, which had not lined up very well with my other benchmark – blooming iris.     I actually do have one blooming,

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