On Friday we took #3 to the doctors to find out she did have an ear infection. While waiting for her medications I got a copy of IK. On the way home #3 looked at it and decided I could make her the Rib-and-Cable Mitts. I want to make the Streakers Shrug for #1 daughter, so I came home and went on the computer to find out where to get the yarn for it…..$25/skein and I need three. I will make it but not with that. I will either buy a cheaper yarn or spin something suitable. I am cheap. I also saw Aphrodite by Rowan Yarns again for #1 daughter. Went looking again and you can only get the pattern from their book A Midas Touch which costs $15.95. Again I am cheap and will not pay that for one pattern as the others didn’t really interest me. Then I realized a warm day was passing me by and we went out and finished the greenhouse and started to put some stuff inside. One of the best things I found was a pray mantis egg sac on a calendar I had hanging in the old greenhouse. I hung it back up in the new one.
Last fall I never cleaned out the greenhouse garden so on Saturday we pulled everything and raked it all into a burn pile for Sunday as it is too windy today (Although not windy enough to make the kids kite stay up!)
Anyhow this garden is about 20 x 40 and has flowers and herbs beds growing outside the fence. We were able to get all that cleaned up also. If the weather holds (more like my body which is exhausted) we should be able to completely finish the big garden in about two to three days. Yes this one was neglected in the fall also. Any clean up that did get done Mom did. We got so tired of eating tomatoes and just left the plants. I didn’t think I would ever get sick of tomatoes but the cherry and grape ones just kept producing like crazy. They had flowers on them still when they finally got hit with frost.We went through the wellhouse where the potatoes, cabbage, onions etc. is stored and got rid of anything that had gone bad. As we were coming in for dinner we looked up and saw a flock of geese flying north! I was starting to worry since everyone was calling the news station telling them that they had seen geese and robins and I hadn’t. Now I just have to wait for the robin.
Tomorrow we will burn off the pile and hopefully get started on the big garden. Right now I am off to a nice hot tub and then I am going to get started on the Mitts as they say the warm weather is not going to last and she may still need them this year! There is also the fact that she is the only one that oh’s and ah’s over things I make and so is very deserving!
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