Besides knitting

During this break from rain, magic  is happening in the world.  Everything is blooming.  

The lilacs popped to full bloom and are determined to put on their show in case it rains hard again. Our daylilies are looking a bit sad.  The wind and heavy rain did a number on them but even so, they are blooming.  There are flower fronds laying on the grass but they still bloom.  And through all of this, the peonie blossoms are just getting fatter and fatter.  I hope they wait till this next rain will be done.

And then the cherry tree.  I haven't spoken of the cherry tree.  The blossoms were all knocked off in a hard rain after only a couple days of sun and lots of busy bees.  I figured that would be the end of a bountiful harvest.  I was wrong.

I had to set the picture to extra large to see them here, but cherries?  There are plenty.  The few days for pollinators to get to the blossoms was enough to set a good bunch of fruit.  Any more and the tree would be over burdened with fruit.

Our wee potato patch though is a dud.  We planted before the rain but the cold weather and the volume of rain did not give the potatoes a chance. The patch was flooded for several days over the two biggest storms. Oh well.  Keith is debating if he should plant anything or just keep the weeds down.  

I'm voting for whatever flowers he can find or beans.  I love green beans.  I love peas more but Keith does not.  Since he is doing the planting, he gets to pick.

In the meantime, I knit, I listen to books, I read and generally keep busy.  Still no word on the flooring but Keith is hopeful that he will hear today.  And so it goes.

I took time yesterday to do a try on of my Geddy Tee.

It fits just as I hoped.  

It' s nice

I want to write this morning but I don't really have any knitting to talk about.  

I lied yesterday.  I said my WIPs all fit in the WIPs bin.  They don't.  The reason they don't is that there are 4 different knit next in the WIPs bin, so that gives me a pass, right? Hahaha

I bought a fair bit of yarn this year.  Yarn for the blanket.  Yarn for a Flea in the proper size for me.  Yarn for...well I have not quite decided but that gorgeous Fjallalopi for a something with possible colourwork, but a sweater quantity of it and the really lovely Hillesvag Ask in this year's perfect pea shoot green, a sweater Quantity.  And yet, I dream of a little something else.

Midknit Cravings has a newer colourway, Drama which is a rich burgundy and red sprinkled with spots of black.  It is elegant and sophisticated and I want it.  I do not need it but I want it.  

I am working on resisting that want.  There is not a lot I want anymore.  Somehow my life has come down to only wanting yarn and books to listen to and not too much else.  My needs are met and I live in a place of quiet peace.  So many don't have that.  Here, we manufacture problems.  (Eyeroll and deep and abiding antipathy  in the direction of the premiers office)  but that is enough of that.  

And this morning, after what feels like an entire month of rain, the sun is shining and I can do laundry.  That's a statement you won't read on this blog often.  The idea that I am glad to do laundry is...well odd.  The water use ban is to avoid septic overflow and backup into homes and basements.  It sure isn't because of a lack of local water.  

And that is what my world has today.  Good thought and sunshine.  It's nice.