Month: July 2006

  • on vacay

    Ahhh, now that’s the stuff. Wake up late, stay inside in the coolness watching Sabrina (the newer version) on tv and spinning some gift yarn, going outside to pick fruit and take photos when the fancy strikes. Lots of photos ahead!

    This is my big sweet cherry tree. Photo taken from the deck, so it’s like a mid-height view. It is *covered* in cherries. Lots of clumps, so it’s hard to show them all, but –

    It’s one of them grafted-together trees, so it’s got different kinds of cherries growing on it – the ones at the top that are looking lovely and dark (and are too high for me to currently get at with an 8-ft ladder) while the ones near the bottom right are the light yellowy kind.

    I think megan h. is coming over tomorrow to pick cherries – and I’ll probably be giving them away to just everyone! Perhaps getting into some cherry preserves making…it’s really too horrible that my boyfriend is allergic to cherries. I’m thinking cherry ice cream (I made dark chocolate ice cream today, with a custard and everything, and it turned out very, very yummy). And then there’s the sour cherry tree as well – pie!

    Raspberry ‘patch’: this is the biggest clump of raspberry bushes, but they’re all around the house – they just keep spreading! Raspberry sorbet, here I come…

    One last garden shot – my container veggie garden, growing quite well. The three in the back are all different kinds of tomatoes. Left to right in the front, eggplant, burgandy beans, carrots, and squash – I know those last ones are little right now, but I know the squash and beans are pretty fast growing. We’ll see.

    In the theme of green and red, some yarn and knitting!

    Wool/silk two ply. Love those greens!

    The start of a handspun sock. Thick-ish (2.5 mm needles) but hey, they’ll be out of my handspun!

  • in which she uses swears

    My street is off a major street. In order to get to my street from the bus stop, you can either jaywalk (I almost wrote ‘jaywalker’, ha) or go slightly past my street to get to a crosswalk with a light – it’s not an intersection, but has a traffic light (it’s outside a public school). You have to hit the button to make the light change, or it’ll just stay green.

    So today I hit the button and waited, and the light turned yellow. A few cars went through the yellow. Then the light turned red, and some stupid fuck accelerated through it. Now I’m usually a pretty passive person, and I don’t like to provoke or make gestures to stupid drivers (even if I want to; I’m usually too slow anyway). This time, though, I gave him the finger and the “what the hell” arms-splayed thing. I crossed the street.

    Then what? He turns around, comes up beside me on my street, and yells various things at me through the window over his vapidly-smiling girlfriend (or whatever) in the passenger seat. Yeah, riding through a public school crosswalk in your slightly souped-up blue Honda in the suburbs is really gangsta. Motherfucker.

    At any rate, I’m glad it was nothing more than that – at least I didn’t really worry that he was going to actually come after me, or have a gun or something. Still. Some people are so stupid it astonishes me.

    Anyway. Bigger and brighter things? Okay, not that bright due to nighttime lighting, but I finished a pair of Trekking socks. They’ve got a pretty short cuff compared to what I usually do, which leaves them looking a bit funny when flat:

    But they’re good on the feet!

    How about some pretty yarn? I just finished plying up some plain white merino, hopefully for a sweater! Each skein is 4 oz – the two on the left have been washed and are 360 yards each; the two on the right haven’t been washed yet. Haven’t figured out the yardage, either. I hope it’s enough…although maybe I should do up one more skein just to be sure. This has been a long term spinning project, so I’m happy to free up my bobbins!

    Getting long here, so I’ll save some for tomorrow. I might be sleepy though – I’m getting up early (for me, at least) to go to St. Lawrence Market. Mmmm, yummies.