Weather, Dreams And On Goes The Year

Well, I have to say that the weather around here has been totally screwy. The grass is turning green and the leaves have turned yellow, orange, and red. Normally we got long lovely days in the fall where you can sit out and dye yarn in the bright sunshine on the deck but this year the weather has just been gross. For about a month now it has been cool, and wet... I begged all summer for a little rain but it just didn't happen. Now I'm wishing for sunshine. Does that make me a dissatisfied old shrew or is it just that the weather patterns are changing.  I have not had my head up my butt for the last ten years and do realize that global warming is a real threat. It makes me anxious just thinking about it. (But don't worry I'm not going to go on an environmental rant right now.)

Teapot took his class yesterday off to the local outdoor centre where they are learning canoe skills as part of their gym curriculum. How lucky is that. Teapot makes an awesome teacher.... I mean I never got to learn canoeing skills when I was in school!

I miss Teapot when he is not around. Last night I put in a terrible night. Thinking that I would be cold without the warmth of his body next to me, I threw on an extra blanket. This was not a good idea. I always have bad dreams when I am too warm at night. And so it came to pass, that all night long I was dreaming about the end of the world and wraiths sucking out the souls of the people who were fleeing before them in terror. I knew I was warm and I had this weird sense that I was dreaming and that it was not real but I couldn't wake myself up long enough to throw off the extra blanket. It was very disturbing.  As a result, this morning I am feeling quite off.... I'm not sure my brain and body are on the same page.  I just wish it were sunny, that would cheer me up, but it is not, and I look out on the grey skies and the dull sheep and horse and wonder what happened to the lovely days of fall that I was sooo looking forward to.

Last night was Thursday, and we began knit nights again after a four month hiatus. I finally finished those lace gloves that I was working on all of last year. And what's more is, I took back the thumb. (I don't have a thumb on my right hand... and was born that way, for those of you who are new here). So now the gloves are mine. I rarely, if ever knit anything for myself, and all last year I would look at the gloves as they were progressing and positively covet them.... and finally last night I made the big decision to keep them for me.

I don't have the camera, (Teapot took it with him) so this picture of the one glove, taken a while back will have to suffice. They were knit with a yarn that I spun a few years ago and then dyed with Avocado pits. This picture doesn't really do them justice. But it gives you an idea of what they look like..... very Jane Eyre don't you think?

With the temperatures dipping and there being so much rain I am beginning to think of knitting projects. I began knitting two years ago a shawl out of a hand spun yarn from Karaoke rovings.... which is a blend of soy silk and Merino wool. It looked awesome but then I ran out of yarn and so I thought well I'll just order some more rovings and spin it up. Off and on during the winter last year I would sit at one of my secondary wheels and spin yarn for that project. So, now that I have the lace gloves finished I am going to get out that shawl and continue on because I have a great honking ball of Karaoke finished and waiting to be knitted.

Yesterday, the sun shone for just a little while and I stepped out on the deck for a nice breath of fresh air. It was then that I noticed a leaf had fallen on the deck and had a great drop of water pooled in the centre.... I had to take a picture....

I looked around me and saw great water droplets on many of the plants that adorn my deck.... I'll leave you today with a couple of those pictures....

Hope you have a fine day....