A Happy Mother's Day to you!

I was able to do a lot of knitting this weekend.  The weather was cool and rainy.  I took advantage of an empty calendar, the Stay at Home order and the cool weather.  I snuggled into the recliner and knit.  I had a marathon of Chicago PD and NCIS: Los Angeles TV and I greatly enjoyed myself.  I am very pleased with the way this little sweater turned out.  It needs buttons sewn onto the shoulders and then a soak in the sink for a good blocking.  Then I will post some more professional looking pictures.  It is a very soft little sweater.  There are several women pregnant at work so the choices for recipients is plenty.

Our make shift greenhouse has worked wonderfully.  I am excited to get vegetables out in the garden and growing.  We have a couple nights of cold weather coming up.  Even down into the freezing zone.  Until this is over, these babies will be safe in the porch.  I really wish I would have started them in February instead of the end of March.  Lesson Learned and notes made for next year.

I always enjoy watching the Perennials popping up.  All the fun little hostas coming up and growing bigger and bigger.  Some of these were teeny, tiny little plants when we started them.  I will be moving some of the little lime Hostas over into another bed to give a little better color disbursement.   We need to get a load of mulch and finish cleaning up a bit.  It will look glorious when it is done.  

This is our 4th year on Asparagus and finally will have a crop we can pick and eat.  I am excited to see them continue to grow and take over this space.  It's hard to get a good picture of asparagus.  The camera wants to focus on everything behind it.   Tomorrow I will post a picture of their neighbor, the Rhubarb patch.  It looks amazing and is growing leaps and bounds.  I might even do some canning.  Our stock of Jams is getting low.  I canned a lot of Jam years back in pint jars.  Now I understand the beauty of half pints and jelly jars.  I will do some digging for recipes tonight. John goes back to afternoon shift so I will have some time.

Today I will leave you with a picture of my Henry snuggled up on my lap.  He seems to think he owns my lap and feels free to push things off at a whim. He spoils me and I spoil him.  Together we are a good pair.

A New Weird World

We are still tromping along with our new normal.  We are a full week into May now.  We are still under Stay at Home orders.  You may have previously heard this called Shelter in Place.  Same thing.  Don't go out unless you need to.  Work from home.  The children are finishing their school year at home.  Distance Learning.  I can't help but wonder if someone from the future will look back at this post wanting to learn about the time of COVID-19.  To that person from the future... I would tell you this sucks.  We go through these weird swings of emotion.  Should we open everything back up and jump our economy again?  Should we be conservative and keep things closed?  We risk losing our local businesses.  How long can they hold on like this?  I also wonder what our future will look like.  Will we go back to high fives and handshakes?  Will people continue to work from home long term?

I have been bit by the knitting bug.  There is something very comforting about snuggling in under a quilt knitting on a project for someone else.  I think of them while I knit and say little prayers.  It's been good for my soul.   This is the Binic Sweater from Solenn Couix-Loarer. 

Knitting

Binic Sweater