I meant to post yesterday and became distracted. These have all been taken over the last several days. I was so happy to see those black-eyed Susans bloom. Last year the deer ate them before they started to form blossoms. I am sad that it seems we don't have many deer around this year.
The faerie guards the potted mum and apparently has been letting her friends hang out in the plant. Does anyone know what type of mushrooms those are? I tried searching the interwebs but couldn't figure out.
The raspberry cream zinnias are so pretty and I'm so glad I added them to the garden. I was inspired to do so by Vanessa and all her talk/photos of her zinnias.
The salvia is still blooming for the hummingbirds and is very pretty.
That last photo is of a spider web I found in the camellia.
In other news, those refrigerator pickles I mentioned in my last post? YUM!! So good!
Well, that's about all I've got today. Hope you are having a good day.
What's growing in your garden or being created in your kitchen?
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I'm trying to recover from a couple of really bad days. These photos are from last week, maybe the one before. I find myself having breakfast on the patio often, especially on cool mornings. That same morning, I prepped a nice batch of green beans. It brought back a lot of good memories from my childhood, helping my grandparents.
That last photo isn't very good. I took it from inside the house of a little bird taking some nesting materials. I need to find out what kind of bird it is.
Anywho...I haven't taken a picture yet, but some little thief stole my tomatoes from the garden. They were so big and starting to turn. :-( I suspect the squirrels. Well, maybe better vigilance will protect the others.
I made my first batch of refrigerator pickles today. My handyman had brought me some cucumbers and I had one ready to pick. I used this recipe. I sure hope they turn out.
I think that's all for today. I hope to be back soon.
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Just a short post today to share a finished knitting project. This is the third Scoreboard I've knitted. This is the 2.0 version and from the Steelers 2018-19 season.
I'm probably not going to do one this coming football season. My plan when I started the very first one, was to knit one for each of us in my family. There are four of us, so I would knit one each for four seasons.
However...the first one I knit, I ended up using the wrong size needles by accident and used the wrong weight yarn and it was H...U..G..E...HUGE! My brother is over 6 ft and it hung down to his knees wrapped twice around his neck. That was also the first version, where you knit one row for every point scored. In the 2.0 version, you knit 2 rows for every score. So, if the team scores a touchdown (and extra point) that is 7 points. In version 1 - that would be seven rows, in version 2, just 2 rows.
Anywho...I'm planning to keep a log of the scores and the next season that they win a superbowl, I'll knit one for my brother to replace the first one. And eventually, I'll knit one for me. The second one I knit went to my sis-in-law and this one to my mum.
Now that the scoreboard is done, I can refocus on the Tegna sweater I've started and frogged and started and frogged, etc... several times. I would really like to get a good start on it before the middle of August. I have a big trip coming up (more on that later) and it would be a good project to have with me for hotel room knitting.
That's it for today. The past two weeks I was working on a big project around the house and it finally caught up to me. Yesterday was a REALLY bad headache day and today is only slightly better. At least I have Wimbledon (on mute) on the telly.
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