goodbye 2022

before the year ends, one more look at Christmas 2022 

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!

it's Christmas Eve once more

 

Simple pleasures of the Season

The wooden Snowman, a gift received from a dear friend,

crochet pinecones made by hand,. silver pieces polished,

and starry lights added.

Merry and Bright!

Tomorrow the table will be set, a meal shared and memories made.

And we will remember those no sharing a chair at our Christmas table this year.

To friends near and far, my wish to you,

a very Merry Christmas 

and Happy New Year!

here comes the rain again

Yes, we have rain.  It is most welcome after a very long drought.  Stage 5 conditions.

My blogging absence wasn't planned it just sort of happened.   My focus was elsewhere required due to a medical issue, appointments, surgery and recovery.

And here we are late October. Through everything I always remember that I am

thankful, blessed and grateful

Here's what has been keeping me busy.

Spinning cotton 

September finishes

Knitting fun

So today marks a return to regular blogging.  

till next time........

new gardening

 the indoor gardens grow

Citrus seeds up and doing well (foreground).  Parsley started in the Aerogarden and the plug moved/setup up in a canning jar.  So long as the water is changed and the plant food feeding is done regularly, it seems to be working well. To the right, the Aerogarden with basil, dill and cherry tomatoes.

In the new idoo, tomatoes and lettuce.   The plastic domes come off once the seeds are established.  It doesn't take long.

I'd never planned on indoor gardens but it seems that Mother Nature keeps coming up with curve balls .. ...between rain and cooler temperatures the growing season seems to be shrinking.

and while it rains and the wind blows, indoors there is always time to enjoy spinning.

it might be

the end of May but our weather continues to feel more like March.....so much for getting an early start to the patio garden.

In the meantime we're trying out indoor compact hydroponics units.   So far so good with parsley, dill and basil all well established.

As for my blogging absence, that will keep for another day.

on the homefront

 Things continue low key here.  Our weather is all over the place.  The time change stuff happens this weekend,  And a week later, it's Spring!!!

Online I've seen many folks dyeing their wool for projects.  Being the patient person that I'm not, temporarily turned the kitchen into an onion skin dyeing adventure.  The dry roving is actually darker than shown in the photo. 

Recent knitting projects completed.

Rhubarb in one of the raised beds.

Definitely hope for Spring to come (soon).

maybe, just maybe.....a new connection

till next time, stay safe

sunflowers for

 

hope

pretty in pink

 A sweet surprise in my mailbox today

and blooms on the patio too.

where has the time gone??

 It seems that my blogging efforts have gone astray, again.

Our winter weather continues.  Is anyone else counting down the days till Spring?   It feels like Mother Nature has an apprentice who presses weather changes on a whim.   January brought a bit of everything. By Monday there is another cold front coming down from the north.   Snow in the mountain passes and local mountains.

On the patio the hellebores are blooming.  Everything else seems to be on hold at the moment.

With my indoor time I have been trying to learn to new to me knitting called linen stitch.  First attempt is a project bag.  It's rewarding making something from fibers that have been hand spun.

And more spinning underway.