The weekend was incredibly busy.  There was not a relaxing moment.  C had decided that he should go to a local farmer’s market with our hostas.  (We have LOTS of hostas. Have I showed a picture of the hosta fields lately?  I’ll have to check. I want you to understand.. LOTS OF HOSTAS!)  We set the alarm for 5 am. There really was no need.  It’s so light that time of morning that I’m already awake, not up, but awake.  After consuming as much of the elixer of life coffee as I could in the short amount of time alloted, we packed up and made the 35 minute drive.  The day was glorious, perfect for being outside, chatting with folks, and spinning.  I knew I’d be there for 5 or so hours, so took my wheel.  Let me just say here, that the lily people were there, with more lilies, and now I have more liles.  That’s just the way it goes.  I do not feign restraint when it comes to great garden deals. 
On the way home, C stopped by the Merlin Tree to pick up these:
  and these:

  Late Saturday afternoon, I started sanding (and resanding, over and over) the pieces that David had cut for me from my own spalded maple and those cut from a fine baltic birch plywood.  I had ‘a plan’.

  Sunday morning, after breakfast, I started on ‘the plan’.  I needed to have all the pieces ready for a 1:30pm workshop.  I hung them to dry.

When I arrived, someone special was there to greet me..

  stay tuned..

 

Tivoli is ready for the bind off.  Which?  Good question.  I think a small i cord.  Yesterday I went along for the 1:15 min ride when C took his nephew back to NH, just so I could knit.  There is so much to do all the time that I rarely take any time off during the day to sit and knit;  guilt creeps in, monkey mind starts up at warp speed, it’s always something.   That, and some Home Depot type shopping, killed the afternoon. 
I’m almost finished with the send 1 oz. bobbin of Kim‘s bunny blend.

I have been recharting the Dayflower Lace Scarf Pattern. I’d like to make a stole from it.  It took hours to chart this last evening using traditional knitting symbols.   My mind just couldn’t wrap itself around two more languages.. type ‘g’ to make the symbol for the knit stitch,  ‘@’ or ‘e’ = the ‘p2tog’ symbol.. see?  I thought I’d test it out making an afghan square. 

Consider me buried today by beans, brocolli, berries and basil and bunny.  I think it’s time to start blueberries, too. 

  Mr. Wild and Wooley himself.. ‘spider boy’ Sam making his debut.. Bu and Zak are still trying the if I don’t see him, he’s really not there approach.  I think Zak is secretly terrified.  Bu is sure that when the 15 yr. old nephew leaves, so will this and life will again settle in to normalcy.

there’s an awful lot of this going on..

  lots, see what I’m talking about.  A new holding area is behind the existing structure

not enough of this has been going on (that IS Tivoli), however hours have been spent on this raft during the past couple days, poling out and dropping the rake (which is attached to the winch on the back of the tractor) in order to remove the chara fromthe bottom of the swimming area.  This is really hard work, heavy, dirty, slimy, smelly, HARD WORK.  But, it gets rid of baggy arms really fast. I’m looking good.

and I leave you with this ominous shot, for here in the Kingdom,  9I saw this August 1st. but I couldn’t bring myself to look at it and walked around it for two days)

ohh.. I just can’t go there now.