On the hottest and most humid day this summer, I picked the last of the strawberries.  They were few and far between but having missed the season it was good to get what I could.  Passed this on the way home..

  they were on a mission.. probably to look for a cool shady swimming hole, who knows?

Last evening I did manage to fill another bobbin with a mohair/ wool blend I’ve been working on.  Long draw.  It has quickly become my favorite.  I’ve always had a variation on the long draw, but this IS fast.  A neighbor stopped by in the evening to chat, giving me plenty of time to spin while visiting and an excuse to do nothing else.

Question for Miss Manners:  Is it rude to use guests as an excuse knit / spin when you have guests stop by?  Guess this audience is doomed, heh?

here and there..

During my 2 ½ week absence, the (apparently) resident deer threw a garden party, in MY garden.  Mostly, they snacked on hostas; mostly the most colorful and centrally placed for visual impact.  The gardens got spanked.  This has been the way this year.   A month or so ago, the neighbor’s heifers walked up the lane and threw one of their own, mostly trimming trees and leaving party favors in and amongst the deep foot prints tracking over the field and lawn.  This would be a good time to say that I’m really happy the damage wasn’t greater, that they didn’t get further into the blueberry patch after they broke the fence down, and this would also be the time to say that it’s REALLY GREAT that they weren’t interested in the raspberries, yet.  YET!   Turns out that this may be a bumper year for raspberries.  My bushes have never been this full.  That’s the good part, here’s the bad.. that horrid and deadly boring worm is in many of the tips and those must be cut off and burned asap.   IN the flower beds, the weeds grew faster than the flowering plants.  Why is that always the case?  If the flowers grew faster, would we call them weeds?  I bet we would.  If I spend the next two weeks trying to play catch up, I’ll still be two weeks behind.  Gardens are like that.  This might be a good year to try out the wild look. 

Saturday, I high tailed it out of the house to go visit Richard and David, friends from the spinning guild, for a quick lesson on the proper way to use combs.  I borrowed a set of minis from Cindy to process some of the incredible ‘bunny crack’ purchased early in the spring and still waiting.  Kim had some good suggestions on her blog a week ago.  After reading that, I decided to go for it.  David showed me these..   

Nice huh?  The humidity is off the charts this morning, you could probably cut the air.  Maybe a bit sticky for fiber prep. 
One more observation… Spielberg could use this..there are these "balls" of flying insects hovering in the air in different places in my yard.  Honest.  One ball has been out there for a couple hours already.  What’s that about?   

HHH… all capitol letters, all bold type!  The sun is starting to peak through this morning, and that will make it a sauna.  The weather guy said the humidity was 90%.  This is one of those days that I’m truly grateful for lhaving a home under the tree canopy.  I have to hunt to see the sky.  (It’s not all good, makes for lots of dampness problems the rest of the time.)  It’s a good day to work in the basement office. 
Last night Kristen from Audioknits showed up at the OSKG meeting with her Tie One On shawlette from Knitty.  This is one of Nona’s patterns and Kristen made it from my ‘Papaya’ wool/ silk singles.  It was fun trying it on, it’s light as air.

The pattern is perfect for ‘a little something’ to throw over your shoulders when you encounter too much AC.  Hard to imagine that right now, huh?

The meeting was fun, we learned to make a simple beaded crocheted bracelet.  Something different…