The Magnolia did its big showoff thing, and has packed it in for another year…
I wish we had more than just a week or so with the bombastic blooms.
However, I also wish that we didn’t have evil everlasting Japanese Knotweed!
I can’t keep up with those petal-pink phallic fuckers…
I swear it grows at least a foot overnight.
I finally found the pliers I’ve been looking for for nearly a year.
I’ve no idea how they came to rest in the middle of the backyard, but that was where they wintered.
It’s a shame too – I’ve had those for decades…
I’m also back to waging a dark horrid war on poison ivy…
I got rid of so much of it last year – carefully pulling up every bit of brittle buried vine – but it seems that there is even more this year.
The days at home have been busy and tiring and we’ve been on the road often again, so I haven’t been making fibery things much…
But I cut up three of N’s old t-shirts to make some tarn for a tiny clog rug.
It isn’t all that, but it is the perfect size to make up the difference from the less than perfect sized rug by the door where I kick off my muddy clogs.
I’m not a fan of knitting with cotton and things on big needles and tarn sheds a maddening fine clingy fuzz, but I’m itching to make some large basket/bowl things…
but I’d need a helluva lot more t-shirts…
ASTITCHMATISM 