I tried really pretty hard to get this posted yesterday for the Wednesday Yarn Along. I've actually taken pictures all the way through this small project, but have managed to hit 10 p.m. on each Wednesday and just given up getting a post up.
That seems to have been a theme for the summer. Here it is, the first day of fall (not that summer in almost any way feels to be over :-o) and I'm working on the 2017 (how on earth did it get to by 2017?!?) calendar. I feared I wouldn't have enough pictures to choose from.
Not only did I not blog very frequently, but I didn't take pictures the way I usually do. I really don't know why except maybe the extreme heat of this summer just knocked me down. I worked from sunrise to past sunset and mostly only got farm and animal work done.
Or I should say I got the farm and animal work mostly done. You never get it all done. I made sure the important stuff was done. Animal care first. People care second. Well, move mowing, weed eating and gardening to second and people third (just being honest ;-). Then housework. Then Punkin's Patch, followed by knitting.
Those last two got less than 1% of my energy all summer. Or maybe 1% for each. Who the heck prioritizes housework over knitting? And how do I support my wool family if I don't prioritize my business? Housework?? Seriously??? A clean house never lasts and all I have to show for it is a half a pair of socks. Seriously...
But the animals were well cared for during a challenging summer of Way Too Hot for old fat sheep. And the old fat people survived. And the farm looked good and made us and the animals happy (up until it stopped raining while maintaining the upper 80s). And surprisingly I have a good stash of calendar quality pictures to choose from. And a half a pair of socks.
And that half a pair of socks has actually been pretty fun. As many know, I am not a sock knitter. And I'm not a color person. So I'm going to knit colorful socks? I got swept up in the sock fun on Susan B. Anderson's site. Miss B set me up to knit them two at a time on a long circular needle so there will be no second sock syndrome here and it has been fun to learn something new.
I've listened to a couple really great books and even read two real books that I've dearly loved. I mentioned the first Yorkshire Shepherdess book a couple months (!) ago. The second book is every bit as good and I sure hope she's working on a third and a fourth and...
I listened to Laurence Anthony's The Elephant Whisperer last week and thoroughly enjoyed that. I think I got prompted for it because I was searching to see if I'd missed any No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books. I normally wouldn't have been looking for elephant books. Now I will. Absolutely fascinating.
This week I am listening to another of his books, Babylon's Ark, about the effort to rescue the animals at the Baghdad Zoo after the invasion. Some (well, mostly all) horrible stories so far, but the efforts made are inspiring for sure and the situations our soldiers were in, eye opening. I'm not turned off though and can't wait to "turn the next page".
And even if it doesn't really feel like it, summer is over and now we all get to turn the next page into fall, re-evaluate our priorities and git to knittin'! :-)
Joining in with Ginny...
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