Back To Normal

 

I know normal is an illusion. As I have heard it said, " We are either in a trial, coming out of a trial or getting ready to be in a trial." I have in my pea brain tried to get away from that saying, but I think it just might be true. Ron went to work yesterday. I credit it to the prayers of my friends and the goodness of God. He came home exhausted but so glad to return to his routine. I am thankful to have my friend who walks around with me, and looks at the garden with me and just having him do normal is such a wonderful gift. His hives are almost gone. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

So just some normal things.

I dyed wool yesterday. My dye spoons continue to amaze me and I am so happy with my colors.
I am working on a mermaid rug.

 

She is a silhouette. I got the pattern from an old pub sign. I have wanted to do her for a long time.
I needed sea water, so yesterday I dyed the water background for her. The book I used was Vintage Colors.
Here are the the lovely wool colors that came out of the magic dye pot yesterday.

All of it really is much prettier in person. These are brighter than they really look. I can"t wait to start on the ocean. Doing black is like climbing up hill all day long.

Then a fantastic rug hooker named Julie Butler from Plumrun Creek did this fantastic rug from Buttermilk Basin. It is a summer wool runner. I liked how Julie's looked as a rug, so I decided I needed to buy a pattern and see if I could get it on backing.

 

I drew it out free hand. Which was so much fun. I of course, can't leave it alone so I added some stars and I am going to hook a red and white border along the bottom. It is a pretty large rug.It will be so much fun to hook next. Every thing in it makes me happy.

This makes me even happier. My first tomato. Isn't it just lovely! You have no idea how bad I wanted to just eat it fresh from the garden. I brought it in though to take its picture. We will see if I am singing this same tune come August. The little garden is so much fun and so much easier to take care of and my plants are just loaded with tomatoes. We are going into a heat wave starting today with every day triple digits so we will see how many get ripe.

Pattern by the Blue Attic

I have worked on this because having my hands busy is so much easier than panic. It finally dawned on me yesterday that I got a lot done these last few days. Though I think I need to start knitting because I think that would have been even better for my state of mind.

When I was a little girl, my Mom kept pretty much to this schedule. I asked her once, why she always ironed on Tuesdays. " She said, that if I wanted a clean house with every thing done and to have time for other things, it was best to follow this schedule." Those were the days when you had to iron and she had a big glass green coke bottle with this thing with a cork on it and holes that she would sprinkle the clothes with water. I keep hoping to find one in a antique store. I too have kept pretty much to this schedule even now. Just because it works.

I hope you have a delightful weekend. We have our pest control coming to fumigate the Volkswagen and our garage. So until that is done, Ron and Peter will not be working on cars. I am hoping for a nice, quiet, normal Saturday. It is my second oldest son's birthday. I just cannot believe how fast June is going by too.
Thank you so much for your prayers,
~Kim~

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss