End of Week Roundup

Each year for the womenfolk in Ron's family, I try to make several of one type thing they can choose from. When the froufrou scarves were all the rage, I made a bunch of sparkly, furry, (ew) ones, tied each one with ribbon and let the ladies pick what they wanted. Last year was wool or woolblend scarves. This year I'm going for mittens. So far I have 4 complete pair finished, and one of a fifth pair. There's cabled, gauntlets, fliptop, thrummed. I'm trying to make a wide variety of colors too, and shooting for 8 or 10 pair which is more than I really need. Whatever is left over will be distributed to other family members on my side. And it makes me feel good to use up single balls of stash yarn. So I can buy more. :)

On the deck yesterday morning, I was visited by a rather large moth. Huge, in fact... This is an Imperial Moth, a male I would guess, since it has more purple shadings. And I'm also guessing he's already done his main business of procreating since he's now dead... he was starting that groggy flopping around yesterday already. Still a beautiful creature.

Moonstone Cardigan is finished. The best buttons turned out to be horn, with some little natural scratchy grooves that amazingly pick up the olive shade.



And here's a pic of the Green Envy Circle socks. They were a fun knit, and the yarn is pretty cool. Please excuse the dirt under the stove. I didn't realize it was so bad until I opened the pic. Ick!

I'm all ready to get home this weekend. Yesterday afternoon I tried a new recipe for zucchini brownies. They are ok, plenty rich, and I will be doing a little tweeking. Anyway, they will be going home with me for the menfolk... no way do I need to have them hanging around up here!

I suspect the garden will be overloaded for me tonight. Aside from the abundance of zukes, we've also been picking cherry and grape tomatoes, okra, sweet corn, and green beans. Last weekend I noticed some crowder peas set on. And I counted about 20 watermelons, almost that many cantaloupe, and loads of butternut squash. The beets are ready to pull too, as well as thinning out some of the onions.