and the living is easy…?
Yep, summer is in full swing. I remember desperately waiting for the sun to come back, and it did, with a vengeance. I had a feeling it would be long, dry summer, and that it has indeed been. It’s been great for my garden. My tomatoes have already started turning red, which is amazing, as none of them changed last summer and we had to coax them to edibility by covering them and putting them in a cupboard for weeks and weeks. They were good, mind you, but it’s even nicer to be able to enjoy them right now. My strawberries spread from four little plants to a two meter wide swath of garden, my basil is always ready for eating. I planted squash late on a whim… we’ll see yet how that turns out. Oh, by the way, roasted acorn squash seeds are incredibly delicious!
But, then again, the heat isn’t all good. Two weeks ago we both came down with a nasty, nasty flu that lasted a full week. This was the same week of record breaking temperatures… having a flu in 40 degree weather is no fun! I remember looking at the gauge in the bedroom at 11 pm… it was 32 degrees in our bedroom. It was horrible! Baby mostly had a cold, but he still needs looking after, and looking after a dribbly child when you yourself can’t sleep at night because of the heat and because of the flu… ick. I hope we never have to go through that again. Daisy managed to get sick two nights that week as well, so I spent a few hours in the middle of the night outside with her while she… well, I’m sure you all know what she was doing. Ugh. Yuck. I’m very, very glad that week is over.
I’ve done a bit of stash busting. A pair of warmies that I started last November and never finished (yep, second sock syndrome crossing the boundaries into the realm of leg warmers for babies) have finally been completed. I’m also working on a shawl using the loverly Zauberball that Melissa let me buy (she was holding the colour for herself, no, she’s not the evil yarn purchase dictator), and I’m using some Fleece Artist that Sue found for me to reverse engineer an Anthropologie shrug/vest thing.
Of course, I started this post nearly a month ago. Time is not on my side these days. Managing to co-ordinate computer time with camera time (the camera battery being notoriously short lived, a new camera is in short order) is just not happening. Gah! Frustration. I have a feeling like my life is sitting in little unfinished piles all around me. Chaos. Oh, and let’s throw in a little uncertainty and anxiety to boot.
Whine whine whine. I’ll stop now.