Well, here we are, June 23rd already, and I haven’t been able to finish, let alone get much knitting done, on the many socks I am hoping to make over the summer. Okay, I know that it is  really only the beginning of summer, with folks having just had their summer solstice parties over the weekend and all….But, I really have been slow with the sock production lately.

This is one pair on my needles now:

Regia Weekend colour cotton blend

So, just where does the time go? For one, I’ve been very busy in the garden, with some things starting to show for the effort:And, then, there was getting a gift made for father’s day:

Not to mention the three quilts I had to finish up for the Country Quilter quilt show over the weekend:

Holiday Sampler BOM

Angels Watching Over Me BOM

All Spruced Up

Then, there was helping my son secure a student loan for his offer to medical school and re-mortgaging the office building at work!

I seriously need to get down to some intense sock knitting if this is going to be the summer of socks..I’ll have to wait and see….

It’s only Tuesday - not even hump day - just a day of schlepping off to work and back. So nice though, to take that noon hour walk  at  nearby Stoney Creek trails.The usual suspects were hanging around: male mallards fighting over the birdseed we brought,  a deer in the rushes — too fast for our camera and the usual assortment of crazy squirrels.  We saw a scarlet tananger, but it was too high up in the treetop to take a decent photo.  And, we saw a raccoon, who froze and pretended to be part of the tree as we went by. The mama duck with her ducklings was nowhere to be seen today.

Back at the office, the mail brought a package of books from Amazon: a knitting book and a quilting book.

SPOILER ALERT for Indigo Moon Yarn and BMFA Rockin’ Sock clubs:

I had already received the BMFA May yarn - Pepe la Plume last Friday:

We had gotten hints about the yarn & pattern, all centering around Fraggle Rock - so most, including myself - was expecting a crazy, multi-coloured skein of yarn.But, the depraved dyer, Tina, played a little joke on us, and dyed up this lovely melange of dark purples, plums and lavender. The accompanying pattern is the Fraggle Rock connection, and it looks ……well…pretty crazy. All bubbly and stuff. If I ever attempt this pattern, I think that I’ll use a solid colour, or a semi-solid.

And, today,  keeping with the purple theme, a wonderful surprise from the Indigo Moon yarn club:

Apple Blossoms and Flowering Plum colourway…Yummmy…I absolutely LOVE this colour. It is as dusky and washed out as the photo. It  doesn’t scream “I’m purple”, which I really am happy about. It is so subtle as compared to Pepe la Plume. And, you know what? I love them both. Go figure.

And, finally (not the day…it’s still early and I’ve got things a happening….), got home to discover this in one of my flower gardens:I swear, this was not in the garden when I weeded there over the weekend. How can such an appendage grow in such a short period of time?

The "thing" growing in our flower garden