How do you read this?
Next row (RS): Knit and continue working in Stst. On 3rd and every following 4th
row, increase one stitch each end of sleeve 18 times in all.
A well written pattern is a joy. This one has some confusing bits. It is a simple V-neck, so no matter, anything can be sort of guessed. Like the short rows at the shoulders. I know what has to be done, but it stumped me when I read it, over and over and over.. until I just went ahead and did them. For the record, I’m increasing each side, every 4th row. I skipped the part about the 3rd row. I knit both sleeves at once. They’ll match.
The animals are on the move. It is noisy business. From the sound of the radio dogs, the bear are sticking mainly to the wooded areas. The corn field has been cut so they no longer go there to hide and feast. Birds, small rodents and by the look of the vomit in my yard, the raccoons, are enjoying what was left behind. Turkeys, too. So many of them. They get around, covering rather large areas quickly. Geese, oh my.. the geese! They are everywhere, barking and honking. LOUD. C calls them the "sky dogs". Rightly so.
I’m still gathering bits and pieces. This morning I cut two quarts of broccoli and brought what will certainly be the last two trays of green tomatoes into the shop. I filled one last bag with green peppers. It was 28F last night. How they escaped the frost, wonderful and weird. I think it must have been all the rain that we had immediately before the temperature fell.
My neighbor stunned us this week announcing that he will clear cut (strip all the trees from) the hillside on the far side of my pond. MY VIEW! I am so sad. So depressed. I can’t imagine the mess it will become, my beautiful view. The noise of chain saws, falling trees and the skidder. The smell of diesel. I have lots of land, just not enough. Maybe there is never enough.
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21 responses to “at weeks end.. changes”
Love the turkey photo, I’ll have to show Dale.
What’s your neighbor’s reason for doing this?
Sorry about the trees. Maybe you’ll just have to plant some if you can. The turkey picture is amazing. What a differnt life you live than mine here in NYC. Except that construction is always ruining people’s views, and just like in VT, they refuse to let well enough alone. Anyway, I enjoy your postings.
I’m sorry. I do like that turkey photo.
Now why on earth would he do that? Why move to a wooded area and then destroy it? Grrrr…
So sad when people destroy the woods. We saw a lot of that out in Utah…..just sad.
We have lots of Turkeys around these woods too….silly birds 🙂
I couldn’t agree more about not ever being able to have enough land. The photo of the turkeys is really great!
Nice rafter of turkeys!
Oh, the trees, that is sad news. I hear Lombardy Poplars grow fast…’course they won’t look as beautiful as what is growing there right now….(at least he gave you a heads up…)
The trees are heartbreaking. No, there is never enough.
The turkeys are wonderful. Didn’t know C was a poet: sky dogs.
Yuck to the clear-cutting, but it will only be really awful for a short time. Things will grow, sunlight will stream in, the deer will have a meadow to graze in. It will be okay, just different.
(Yeah, like that’s making you feel any better…)
Oh I feel so sorry for you ! I can totally understand your feelings. It won’t be the same anymore..
The turkey picture is great !
A turkey parade! The woods you live in are a busy place. Clear-cutting is sad…so sad. My heart breaks for you.
I can’t believe he is allowed to do that. Aren’t there laws in your area about clear cutting near water and/or devaluation of property due to the change in the view? So sad.
Argh. The trees. I hope it doesn’t mean your forested view will be replaced with development. We just lost a battle here in our little town to save 5 acres of trees on the main thoroughfare, including at least 10 burr oaks that are over 150 years old. In place of the beautiful restful spot, we’re getting a drug store and another fast food restaurant. It’s devastating, people are upset, but the battle was drawn too late to save the site.
Oh, so sad to hear about the trees. I hope that your view remains lovely, if altered.
Why? Why is your neighbor doing this? You’re right – unless you own all the land you’re subject to losing the view. I’m sick for you.
Clear cut, and then what? Stumps or meadow? I’m assuming he/she is selling the timber.
ALL of them? Just part? What would possess him to cut the trees down?
There’s actually an old tale that watering the crops during a quick hard frost will save them. Maybe it’s actually true!
oh, losing the trees!
Prolly so he can get a view, when we need all the trees we can get….
Turkeys really run around wild?
I’ve thought about this ever since you posted. Brambles, berry thickets = bear food. Tho how I will miss the view across the pond. At least you got a heads up.
So sad about the trees. Like everyone else, I wonder why? I live near a river, but in the city, and we have a few wild turkeys wander around occasionally, and I have ‘coons in my backyard regularly, but I have never seen turkeys on parade like they seem to be in this photo. It is sort-of comical. I feel for you losing your view. Sad. . .
Ugh, clear cutting, what a noisy mess it will be. Some time has passed since you posted, what’s happening and why is he cutting? There should be riparian laws in place about the distance needed for a wooded area to be left for a buffer zone between the cutting and the water. Our state has 100′.
The other thing to keep in perspective is that it will open up a meadow or field which when it’s healed will bring a different sort of view that will potentially have its beauty.