Yellow will have to wait for the Vine Lace, new finishing rule. I’m sure it will be as short lived as my patience. But spring is lots of things, one of them pansies.
So many of you already have your Hummingbird feeders out. Many already have the little buggers feeding. Today’s map showed sightings in Connecticut. They really are early this year. My feeder went out this afternoon. In answer to a couple comments..
- Ann, any hummingbird feeder will do. I have feeders with plastic ‘bottles’ and some with glass. I prefer the glass as I think it might be easier to clean and it certainly looks better, but today I put out a plastic one. It was the easiest to get to. Most feeders do have something red on them. I have had hummers sit on my pink hat and fly up to windows if a red or pink flower is blooming inside.
- If you want to report sightings, as in your first of the year, go here.
- And Tamara, you always have them first, lucky girl. All of you folks west of the Mississippi, you are lucky enough to have more than one variety.
- Adele, they let me know when they arrive too. Usually they hunt me down, window by window then chirp up a racket. They do that when their feeders are empty too.
The Vine Lace needs buttons before I can work on the last piece. Buttons aren’t easy to find. I went through my button box, checked out a few stores and now have an emergency backup button choice. Tomorrow, I find them or give in to my ‘second’ choice, still wondering what my first would look like.
Bear with me if there seems to be an extraordinary amount of drivel in my posts these days. From time to time we’ve all discussed the limits on what’s blog-able. Lots of my life at the moment is not, blog-able that is. Step by step, stitch by stitch, one long draw after another…that’s my mantra. Sometimes, when I can’t even find it in me to knit a stitch, the repetitive motion of the spinning wheel, round and round, yarn slipping through my fingers, over and over, is just the thing. I’ve got loads of "Bess".
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8 responses to “midweek madness”
There’s stuff in your life you don’t tell us? Man! 😉
Just joking, Judy. You do what you have to do. Gorgeous spinning and pansies. I’ll let you know when I see a hummer but my friend down the street usually gets them before me.
Know what you mean. About the spinning too. My frustration threshold has been too low to knit since going back to work.
Hope yours irons out sooner rather than later.
I am uneducated in the needs of the hummingbird. Do they need folks to feed them?
Thanks for the reminder, I was just eyeing my feeder. Hummers are lucky to have a friend like you. (just as the rest of us are) su
Are you a button junkie as well? I only have a modest collection (2 large coffee cans full), but the majority of them are from my mother, my grandmother, and my great grandmother. There are also quite a few buttons from Navy uniforms as most of my male relatives on my dad’s side (except my dad) were in the navy. I love digging through the buttons as each one holds a certain memory.
Paging Judy…from an almost-ready postcard in need of a home. :]
I have seen button patterns for making your own matching yarn buttons. I don’t recall where I saw the directions. However, if you can’t find buttons you like, you may want to google “knit buttons” and see what you get!
Ooo. Bess is beautiful! I’m so excited – I have a drum carder coming my way finally, and it should be here next week. I can’t wait to learn how to use it, and well!
I thought of you the other day when I was outside here in Seattle and saw a hummingbird of some kind sipping from the flowers on the tree right outside the service entrance at work. He was beautiful, and I wish the building would allow us to put up a feeder. 🙂