Isn’t this a great picture? Taken on June 6 at Twitchell Lake in New York state. The moon was amazing!
And finally…
I finally finished my first pair of socks. Hey, it only took three months!!!! I don’t know how people make a pair of socks in three days. I don’t get it? Here’s a picture.
So of course, I need to start another pair. My first pair of lace socks, toe up. I really like these……..
I suspect the knitting will slow way down now that the garden has started to sprout. Hopefully, I will get a camera soon so I can take some pictures!
Camera is water logged
Sad news, now that I’ve decided to use my camera alot and post pictures on this blog I go and drop it in a lake. Luckily it wasn’t too deep so I grabbed it but the camera is dead; however I pulled the card out and the pictures are saved. So what follows are several post of pictures that I have taken the past couple of weeks and have been wanting to upload so here they are. Not sure when the next post will be – need to buy a new camera some time along the way. Yikes! First pictures – red mustard growing where it wants – in the new Eqyptian onion bed.
A beautiful shot of Lady Slippers growing behind the house. They are endangered in NH and we cannot pick them so I took a picture. These are so nice.
Here’s a shot of a bee flying right above a rhodendrum flower and then a bee in the flower.
Finally got the pigs last Thursday. Born April 12th. Aren’t they cute!
Here comes the color
On Sunday the tree and plants had several buds on them but were still closed up. I took these pictures Wednesday and the cherry tree was totally blooming – all flowers were opened and all Lungwort plant were open and flowering just beautifully. Very colorful!
Sock KAL
Ok, I bought Wendy Johnson’s new book: Socks from the Toe Up. Some kind person on Ravelry decided to start a group based on this book. We are knitting a pair of socks each month based upon a different pattern in Wendy’s book. We get to practice one until June 1st when we offically start the first one. I’ve decided to start with the basic toe up sock pattern as I have never done a toe up sock pattern and definitely need the practice. I will start that this week. This KAL is going to last 23 months. So, with all I have going, do you think I can knit a pair of socks per month for the next 23 months? Should be quite the challenge!
Hey, where did the queen go?
Keith went it and checked the bees. I mentioned before that we installed two packages two weeks ago. He needed to go in and make sure the queen was doing her thing. Well, one of them was not doing her thing. No eggs, no drones, and no brood. A sure sign the queen was not there, or sterile. The other was perfect. Plenty of eggs, drones and brood. So after a mild panic attack, we made some phone calls and located a queen, which happened to be my favorite knitter in crime partner. After a made dash to her house (1/2 hour one way). We came back and introduced the queen. They liked her! So hopefully, all will be well with that hive soon. Here’s some pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Chickens
Here’s a picture of our big chickens – enjoying the garden. I’m sure there are plenty of bugs for the eatin out there.
Here’s a picture of our baby chickens. They are now 2 months old. Aren’t they cute! This is the first time they venture outside. I’m sure they appreciated the 80 degree weather.
Our dog
How can I forget about K. C. She has several very unique names: trash hound (she loves to carry around plastic bottles in her mouth). We also call her sap hound (because she follows me in the woods when I collect sap) and we also call her ball hound. She loves tennis balls; loves golf balls; actually she likes anything she can put in her mouth. She has a stash under the couch. She plays around with them and then they roll under the couch and then she wines and when she has no more, we lift the couch up and then it’s like a gold mine, she’s in heaven; she has so many balls to play with, she can’t decide which ones to choose. Yes I know, hard to believe there is nothing in her mouth.
Planting…
Hard to believe it was 80 degrees on April 25th. I had a very productive 1/2 day. I dug out an old raised bed area to make way for new raised bed. With the dirt I removed from that area I moved it to one of the new raised beds to make way for strawberries. Yep, I’m going try growing my own. I’ve got 100 plants coming the end of this month, beginning of May so my bed is now ready for them. I also planted Larkspur under my grape plants. These flowers supposively repel Japenese Beetles. I also planted Borage seeds and nasturtium seeds. Oh yeah, can’t forget I planted three different kinds of lettuce seeds too.
Pig House is Completed
Hooray! We finished the pig house. We should be getting our baby pigs on May 1st (next Saturday). Can’t wait – first time raising pigs; however Keith has raised them before. Will post pictures of the pigs when we get them.
