Mid Summer in July

Yesterday was my fourth year blog anniversary. I went to collect stats so I could brag a bit and I found that a porn site was using my blog to bounce from. I was so upset and sat on Google to try and get it off that by the time I got off the computer I just didn't know if I wanted to blog anymore. I know they will disappear just like they appeared but still it is the idea.

I worked in my garden and my flowerbeds for the two days it was under 100. I knew I had a very, very small window or by the time it cools down again it would look like the amazon out there.

 Oh by the way, these photos today are from a year ago on this day in July. I don't have any sunflowers that have blooms yet. I was working in my garden this week and I have decided I am going to keep my garden this small next year. It is lovely to be able to work the whole thing and just play and not feel like I am doing a sprint for hours and hours. Like Goldilocks, this one is just the right size. I will just organize it better. Like a patchwork quilt.

I have hooked and stitched a bit this week. Oh and read books. I haven't gone to the library since last November. When I did though, I picked up 14 books on Friday. As I was going to the car, I thought " what in the heck am I doing, I don't have time to read these books!!" It has been nice though to read in the evenings. When my hand just says, " No More!!"

I buy a lot of patterns from Pineberry Lane. She did a series with this little witch named Fancey Blackett.
This one I am working on is called Fancey Blackett and The Butter Churn.

So on the days it is too hot to sit with a wool rug on my lap, I have been doing a little stitching. These little motifs just make me smile the whole time I am stitching. I would like to do the whole little series.

It wasn't until I put my 1820 Sunflower down on the carpet that I saw I was using the same color wool for my back ground that is on my carpet. I thought that was so funny. I guess I like that color. But I did something you should not do. I thought I had enough to finish up the background and I ran out. Completely Out. I went through every single bag of wool worms in this house and did not have enough to finish this. I was so mad at myself. Now I have to order more before I am done. I bought this pattern from my favorite pattern maker Cathy at Red House Wool Studio.

I decided I needed to finish up those rugs I started before the wedding now. If I get to hook today, I am hoping to finish this one up.

Taking a break from this one is what I needed. I love this one now. In fact I worked way longer than my dumb hand wanted. It was complaining so much about it that I just ignored it. Weeding and sewing and hooking is just too much for my hands. Life is just too short to listen to my body complain. I said to my hand. " Hand, you can just complain all you want because you can rest when I am dead." I can't wait until I get that new body that is promised to me. I will run and not get weary. Not to mention, I won't have to eat in heaven unless I want to, and I think that will be awesome.

So just a bit of odds and ends. Heat will be back now I think until after our fair now which is at the end of September. I hope you have a great rest of the week and your weekend is just fantastic.

Bye for now,
~Kim~