Sunny days in Eugene

The weather has been particularly fine these past few days. Summers in Eugene!! They are the reason we all put up with the long, rainy, gray days of winter. Cause just when you can't stand another day of damp and overcast dreariness, just when you think you'll never get the smell of mold out of your nose and the webs out from between your fingers and toes, the first scents of Spring blow by in the breeze and you know it won't be too much longer before the days get longer and the weather gloriously warmer.

I had a nice walk along the sluice way today with a new friend and on the way home I stopped to watch a heron wading in the water. It looked so prehistoric with its long legs and neck. We stared at each other for a little while until it decided I wasn't a threat and went back to preening and poking its head in the water. This, oddly enough, reminded me that I'd put off cleaning the bathroom for far too long and I reluctantly biked back home.

I spent the rest of the day noodling around (never did get to the bathroom--cleaning it, that is) and listening to the latest book on tape from the library, He Shall Thunder In the Sky, by Elizabeth Peters. It's the twelfth book of her Amelia Peabody series and I'm enjoying it as much as the previous eleven. It is extremely well narrated by Barbara Rosenblat who does an absolutely fantastic job of portraying all of the different characters of the story. You'd never know that it was just one person reading the story if it didn't say so on the tape container. Brilliant, as the British say, just brilliant!

And on a completely different note....the Fur Babies

The Girl....Petunia



The Boys...Helix & Fergus

Such a crew!!!

Gardening

Today was definitely a scorcher, but I did manage to spend a large part of it working in my flower "garden". I'm going for that English Cottage style look..sort of a controlled chaos and have been quite slowly working on that since my "resignment". This year I can actually almost call it a garden. Except for snapdragons, all of the other flowers are perennials; foxglove, coreopsis, delphiniums, carnations, Shasta daisies, etc. A big "thank-you" to Melissa H. for all the plant starts and inspiration!! (fotos forthcoming).

There really is something quite restful about working in the dirt; planting, weeding and pruning...

On a completely different note...


Dad wearing his new hat!! He likes it!

Recent projects

I've been busy lately with a lot of knitting projects and thought I would post fotos of those things that I've recently finished. The above is a pea cap I made up for Tom. He liked the one I did for Soft Horizon's Knit for Charity event in June so I whipped one up in black for him.



Here it is on me..just a little big!! I've also made one for Dad, but haven't had a chance to take a foto yet so I'll post that at another time. Now I'm working on one for Mom in off white.

I FINALLY finished Leyla's birthday socks...only four months late! I think they came out rather nicely. Another week and she'll be back from Hawaii, so I'll give them to her then.



Tom wants to head off soon for another night of stargazing up at Eagle's Ridge so it's time for a little dinner prep...