Dahlias

Garden Notes

I swore no more dahlias after I realized I no longer had a way to store them. (With the heat pump install last year, we now have to keep our back room’s door open to get heat in there. It used to just be the end of the line of our furnace circuit, which kept

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The former mulch pile

Garden Notes

So, remember that pile of mulch we got delivered the beginning of the week in April I ended up coming down with Covid? Yep, just finally spread the rest of it out. It’s a little lumpy, because the roots of the arborvitae next to it had started to grow into it. Oops! So I’ll have

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Heidi Sweater

Knitting Notes

Pattern: Heidi by Katya FrankelYarn: Quince and Co Whimbrel in the Bowsprit colorwayNeedles: Size 4 Circs and DPNs and Size 3 DPNs So I really screwed up the needle sizes.     With my normal gauge, I probably should have used 6’s and 7’s.   I think I may have been thrown off by the mm sizes

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