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Crochet Time - Kids Hats -Batch 3A

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The weather has been delightful for the past few days. A bit cooler but warm enough for me, low humidity and good air quality. Windows open, so you can hear birds singing and all of the other neighborhood noises.  It will be getting warm again next week Megan, yes, I know many people do not allow their cats up on the kitchen counters. I have always let my boys go where they want to, even on the kitchen counters. I can't always be around to shoo them off, especially when I was working or asleep. If I am going to use the counter to cook, I just clean it off first.    Mid to end of June while I was working on these. All of which I didn't have enough for a full hat of one color. Also not wanting to do a mash up by combing colors.   The top six rows are the increase rows and those are done in the neutral. Then switch to the colored yarn until it is used up. Back to the neutral to finish off however many rows needed to get the hat to the needed length.  ...
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Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

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The really hot and humid weather is gone for now. I was able to open the window for a while so that Dobby could enjoy some fresh air. At one point he pushed against the screen.  I discovered that I had a grasshopper sitting on the outside of the screen. Also later in the day a chickadee was clinging to the screen too. Dobby was all excited.     The smokey air has also moved on for now too which also has made having the windows open a good thing. The guys that mow my lawn came to mow on Tuesday. It is dry, hasn't grown, so I asked them not to mow but to work on cutting down the volunteer trees that keep growing under the spruce trees. Looks really nice!  The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective - the landlady to a group of cottages confesses to murder rather than see one of her tenants arrested. The rest of the residents join forces to prove she is innocent.  Murder on Brittany Shores - a storm, a severely damaged boat and three dead bodies. An accident rig...
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Dobby Time

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  I took this picture a month ago after I got home from my hair cut appointment. Dobby on the back of the chair, claws into my scalp and him licking my hair. I got my hair cut again on Thursday and same results. There must be something in the products my hairdresser uses that tastes good. Once I washed my hair a few times he leaves it alone!  This is the sun in the western sky on July 16, just after 7 PM. The air quality is poor. It was in the hazardous range early today, then down to unhealthy, now back to hazardous. Supposed to improve over the weekend.  This follows a few days of really hot and humid weather. As I was driving home the other day the temperature on the car was bouncing between 100F and 101F. I don't do hot weather very well, so staying inside where the air is decent and the AC is working.   Happy Weekend. 
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Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

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Oh yeah, back in the heat and humidity. As I was driving around on Tuesday afternoon my car thermometer was bouncing between 100 and 101, way too hot! Looking forward to September when things get down into the range I like. When I can open the windows and not have the AC start running.  So inside, watching a bit of the World Cup, baseball all star game and catching up on stuff I recorded off the TV. Plus reading, always reading.  Our group skipped trivia this week. One member is on her usual trip to the cottage up in northern Wisconsin with family. Another is entertaining friends from out of town.  Had to do a bit of driving off the usual path yesterday. On my way to an appointment things were bogged down in a major intersection because of an accident. I found my way through the sub-division and to an alternate route. On the way home things got bogged down because the road is now restricted because of repaving. Again, I turned off and found my way through the side streets...
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