Rain, rain, go away!

DEAR NEGLECTED CONSTANT READERS,

So sorry to have left you in limbo, but who wants to read a post without pics and how can you take pretty pics without sunny days?

It's rained or been threatening to do so for much of the past week. When the sun does come out, I've rushed to get some sundying done and, mea culpa, forgotten to take pics!

I 'm writing this in hopes of good weather soon. I'll grab the pics and post. I've missed you!

I've spun several hanks of yarn, mostly merino, but this skein on the left is Cotswold, dyed not by me, but by a local woman with a magical touch. I don't usually like brown, but I love this yarn. The brown roving was carded with the following colors: greens, teals, reds and oranges. It's very subtle AND hard to photograph! and beautiful, suitable for a warm scarf or hat.

I'll spin the other half of the roving with, you guessed it, beehives, so a knitter or crocheter could use them in stripes or as cuffs for mittens, a hat etc.







I'm obviously thinking fall here. Here's a skein of handspun merino, Trick or treat. It's the very dark grey blue of the Moonlight in Maine colorway plied with a variegated orange to coral for a nifty fall scarf appropriate for Halloween, but not screamingly so. Could easily be worn whenever your neck needs warming. Think I'll make a big felted black spider pin to use for the holiday. Look for both here and on Etsy.

I decided to knit a shawl from the Moonlight in Maine with Fireflies colorways. It's looking sparkly and is anxious to warm some lucky person's shoulders. See next post for pics of it in progress.

All this rain is all our fault. We just had the above pile above delivered. Close inspection of the pic will disclose that it is wet. Clever persons will point out that firewood is not supposed to be wet, doesn't burn well that way. Also, those in the know realize that stacking firewood is not as easy as those quaint picturesque stacks look. I did manage to stack some of it in the wood shed in the background and then the monsoon came! And the weather service says more of the same for the foreseeable future, which is what they've been predicting all week. Don't you just hate it when they're right.

The squash wars are continuing. Just when it looks like the straight neck yellow squash will produce the first 4 inch squash, the zucchini makes several 3 3/4 inch fruit magically appear like Athena springing from the forehead of Zeus. Lots of green tomatoes. We'll need sun to get red ones. I'll keep you posted (ouch!).

And as the aforementioned sun rises, Mollyockett meadow is a bright, bright green, but Mollyockett Mountain usually visible beyond the meadow is absent. As the mists come and go, we can see only parts of the various peaks visible to us on a clear day. An interesting view, but as I do my constant readers, I miss Mollyockett.