Knitting (and other) goals for the week…

Nigerian Raspberry (?) Check out the number of bud stalks, Dearest Sister!

This is a list I started about Tuesday of this week. How well did I do? Let's review, shall we?

Complete the socks of magickness, and start another pair. (Hmm…which pattern?)

>I am into the gusset decreases, and not close to needing another pattern!

Graft completed dishcloth. Make progress on WIP.

>Maybe tonight, while watching some TV...maybe not...other things may call my attention.

Make progress on the homespun scarf. (Frogged and restarted in a broken rib pattern)

>Now this got done! I have achieved about 9 inches on this. A photo is in the future!

Check out Miss Muffett pattern; wind yarn (oh boy!); gather supplies.

>This morning I looked at the yarn I am going to use...

Spin five-eight rolags of alpaca. (Or more!)

>About 3-4 rolags got spun. I don't remember if I did one or two Thursday.

Make cards for June birthdays, and Father’s Day.

>Ummm...not yet...

Line up a couple of photoshop tutorials to work through.

>Pushed off ...again...

Clean and oil sewing machine. (Also check out brand of treadle machine.)

>Singer not cleaned and oiled, BUT...(please ignore the dust...not my forte!)

(It's says 'Blue Grass', and I have the shuttle and about 5 bobbins! Check out the embellishment on the head.)

Plant new plants.

>Partly done.

Repot sansevieria.

>Yeah, baby! Complete and finito!

Lest I forget. There’s the neighborhood garage sale next Saturday…so maybe these should be goals for…the immediate future. I do like open-ended scheduling. So much less pressure!

>All the stuff for the sale is in the garage and dusted (ick! See above.), cleaned, and ready for pricing. Pricing will happen after work this next week. I just ran out of steam. I am so grateful for Wonderful Guy's help.

So I look at it this way. I don't have to go to the effort of making a list this next week. This one should suffice very well!

My lists are guidelines now, and no longer serve as whipping posts showing me what I haven't achieved. I do the best I can, and try to be at peace with that.

And now for some parting shots of May, iris currently blooming...

Titan's Glory...

Almost Heaven...Unknown...

Lion's Share...

K is for…

…Katherine Kruse, which was my mother’s maiden name. I did not take this photo, but it is one of my favorites of her.

My mother and father took flying lessons in the early 1940’s in single engine aircraft. I believe he recieved his license to fly solo. She did not, as it was discovered she was pregnant with Only Brother, and therefore was not allowed to accumulate time flying in the cockpit by herself.

Then there were three small ones, five years and under. No time for such lofty pursuits!

Momma loved flying, though, and in later years, when the family went on ski vacations, she said she considered learning to ski as that might be as close to flying as she would ever get again. We encouraged her learning, and I believe she could have done it, but she chose not to.

She looks so ‘Amelia Earhart’ in this photo, a true aviatrix.

We went hiking...

Even with the windy and rainy weather over our long weekend, Wonderful Guy and I got in two hikes, one to Pawnee Buttes, and one to Rabbit Mountain. Both were suggested in a “Best Wildflower Hikes” book he gave me back for Christmas when we were just keeping company.

(That reminds me of that first Christmas and trying to figure out the appropriate gift. I decided on a print from a photographer friend of the Tetons in winter, and two books on hiking. And I received from him….two prints from the same photographer friend and a book on wildflower hikes!)

But I digress…our hikes were very windy, but full of flowers. Pawnee Buttes is out on the windswept prairie, and with weather moving in, we didn’t tarry much for photo ops. I got a few, but haven’t really studied them. Rabbit Mountain, however, was a sunnier day, less prairie-ish and more foothills-ish. The flowers were showier and plentiful.

I spotted my first spiderwort of the year, and in climbing to get a shot of it, found my first snake of the year. Not big, not dangerous, but still….surprising.

We spotted this butterfly and Wonderful Guy got several in-focus shots. I just love my little digital camera!

Wildflower Roll Call: Wallflower, spiderwort, candytuft, butter and eggs, penstemon, wild geranium, erigeron daisies, cinquefoil, salsify, prairie verbena, copper mallow, purple ground cherry, and meadow arnica.

Wow! It's done!

After working on understanding the directions, and finally figuring out what EZimmerman meant...more or less...with the help of the Ravelry BSJ group, all of the the sudden I found myself within twelve rows of the end!

Actually, I had a bit more than that, as I added cuffs and a collar, per the Wiki directions.

The buttons I found in my collection of buttons. The card was marked as costing 10 cents. For four buttons. I had 2 cards, so I figure accessorizing cost 12.5 cents

I had just enough yarn, too! I love having 'just enough'! I picked it up at the Lambspun sale last October for 40% off. It is 50/50 wool/mohair. Very cushy and softy for my bebe.

I used sz 9 needles, trying to get the sweater to the 12-18 month size. Gauge was good toward that end, according to conventional wisdom, but I am thinking it looks like more of a 2 year old sweater. Alas, I cannot try it out, as the Grandbebe Girl and her parents are visiting her Eldest Aunt.

By the way, Wonderful Guy was duly impressed.

Thanks, Wisest Sister, for forwarding me the EZ books. I am loving them!

We are finishing up five days off, celebrating the anniversary, doing some hiking, some yard work, and being adaptable with the weather. Tomorrow is back to work for both of us.

Pooh. I like having time off with Wonderful Guy.

Just Bits and Pieces

I have a real holiday cactus. She blooms whenever she wants...and she wants to bloom now! She also needs dusting....

Not all my iris are hybridized, fancy pants types. I have some wild iris, too.

And here is the Baby Surprise Jacket. What progress! Especially since it's first photo, like it's half grown, and it's the first anyone has seen of it!

Now I am scooting out of here to visit My Sister Knits. Opening early and 75% off clearance.

Later Wonderful Guy and I are hiking. This is where we went yesterday, the Pawnee Buttes. Weather moved in, and we moved out!