BOOKS, HOOKS AND YARN

It is the end of July! Summer is speeding by quickly. Weather is being OK and for me it is warm enough without being too hot. As I have been driving around I have noticed the corn is growing like crazy, beginning to tassel out as well. I noticed that locally grown corn on the cob is available in the store.   Slowly working the leftovers down into hats. A few I found had enough yarn for a full hat, otherwise just added in some of the neutral yarn color for a few row or two or more. Keep working through the leftover stash to use it up. Yes, that is Dobby's ratty nip rat on the floor. Old catnip, I need to try him on fresh nip sometime.  Here you can see both the colored yarn on the top, plus the different neutral yarn colors that I was using. With using the neutrals it allows me to make more hats.  Not me, I finish what I start!   Happy Weekend. 

Things have been quiet after a day of severe weather in Wisconsin. I only had rain, no issues, and rain was needed in the area. However to the north of me by about an hour tornadoes hit in the Menasha and Appleton areas. At one point over 120K customers were without power in the state. Thankfully no deaths or serious injuries.  My grass already looks a bit greener after than rain, amazing what an inch of rain can do for plants. Things were looking rather droopy at times, grassy brown and crispy.   Our group got together for trivia on Monday. We did about as good as we normally do, we always get at least a few questions that we have no clue. Questions on The Simpson TV show, none of us watch it or have ever watched it. Some movies too, as none of us are big movie watchers. Oh well, we have fun. However at least this week we won best name. Grateful We Are Not Dead .    Family of Spies - a true story that reads like a novel. The author relates the story of her gr...

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.  ...

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...