Wasting my Time

Not much knitting going on here. I have been wasting, er, I mean spending my time on school stuff and yard work. I love seeing pictures of stuff blooming in other people’s yards, so I thought I would put some out there too.

Don’t ask me what this is. As a matter of fact, I know very little about what I grow in my yard. If I like it, I plant it. This is very unlike my usual anal-retentive, research everything self, but I plant like my lovely mom. This one has cheery yellow flowers that bloom early. The leaves are pretty too.

This is my GINORMOUS bleeding heart (I do know SOME things). I have never seen such a big bleeding heart – it is taller than Muskrat. Of course, my mom spit at me and stormed away when I showed it to her last weekend. I am gathering bleeding hearts have not been her strong suit. Apparently, they like shady & cool locations because I moved it to the North side of the house (non- Alaskans reading, the North side of the house gets very late evening and very early morning sun), and it has gone nuts since.

Why yes, my lilac is just now blooming. It smells glorious. If you squint, you can see a beautiful spider in the center of the clump. My favorite thing beyond the smell of lilacs is the number of spider that show up on the bush that I can watch. Spiders are so cool. I am scared to death of them, but I love them.

What a second! How did this photo get in here? This is our neighbor’s back yard and what our backyard faces. We affectionately call it Dandelion Field. I spend most of my time outside plucking dandelions. A losing battle to be sure, but I am going down with a fight. We are thinking about doing something permanent in the chain link fence this weekend (you know, those little plastic slats), but we’ll see. Hubbie seriously needs a break and weaving plastic slats in the fence is probably not his idea of fun – call him crazy.

So, I got a lot of comments on my Yarn Harlot post (like some record for this blog). The thing that was so exciting about it was most of them were local knitters from here who I had never met before. Martina is Anne’s sister, my Knitter’s Treat Exchange partner. How cool is it that she was in line in front of me? Then there was also Arctic Knitter from The Wandering Stitch – I actually saw her at the WWKIP day event and then again at Yarn Harlot. Her family just left for a SIX WEEK road trip to San Diego. I also saw Bunchkin from Bunchkin Knits. We didn’t officially meet, but she emailed me later after talking about the gansey to say she was sitting right next to that woman and THEN I remembered admiring her Jaywalker sock that you see in her Yarn Harlot post (she got the sock procedure right, apparently). Finally, Suzanne from Alaska Stick Girl was there too! We have emailed back and forth about some Blue Sky Cotton, which I covet. Wow. So many knitters out there and it was great to see some of them. So, if you come back to read my blog again after meeting me (and obviously regretting it now because I have diarrhea of the keyboard at this point), we will have to get together some time and knit. Martina mentioned a Friday night knitting group that meets at Knitting Grounds that I hope to make it to once my husband’s schedule slows and he doesn’t come home from work a drooling, mumbling mess because his brain has been sucked dry. There is the safety of the kids to consider.