I've been knitting for the last few days. 150 hour project... is coming along really nicely... though slowly. It looks awesome... even better than I thought it would look.
I woke this morning to a ripping thunder storm... one of those ones that every crack of thunder seems like the sky is going to open up above your head and something awful is going to fall out of the sky and squash you smartly. Then it rained.... like nothing I've ever seen before... the rain was so hard.... (how hard was it you say?)... it was so hard that it was like someone tipped a bathtub over and poured it over our heads. But then the weird thing is it just cleared up after that and out came the sun and it was down right steamy and hot hot hot. Teapot says that this is the change of the summer and we will get hot weather from here on in. We'll see... and if things are like that it won't be fit out since the mosquitoes are dreadful this year. We'll still be house bound unless we're covered in Deet.
Teapot and Daughter #1 are headed off down to Cochrane, AB for a trip with the JCRs. It's all good though I have to take care of animals alone while they are away. A few weeks ago Teapot decided that the sheep and horse could get out on graze if we put up a temporary fence around the lawnier parts of the yard. So up went a temp fence and if ever I had wories about the alpacas I don't any more. Mishka the female alpaca stays inside a three strand fence that in some areas is no higher than just above my knees. Howeydew the llama, has to stay cooped up since the fence would be a joke for her. The sheep fit through the wires but because Mishka stays inside the wires they don't wander far. Usually on our property or within a short range of our place. Meanwhile the horse goes into another area with a temporary fence and is loving the fact that she can eat green stuff instead of hay. However, with all horses and animals in my experience... the grass is always greener... so she lifts the wires and heads off in her own direction... it's good that she is such a placid horse because Daughter #1 has been known to be dragged down the road holding on to the tail of her horse until such time as Dreamer will stand still to get the halter on her. Then she is quietly lead back to her digs with head hanging low. Silly horse. While the dear Daughter is away I think Dreamer will be staying inside her paddock and living on the bit of grass that has been able to grow up in there recently.... that and hay. Meanwhile the alpacas are grazing on their two new paddocks and enjoying the new digs... they will hopefully be ok there till Teapot gets back. Still the whole thing is a worry when I'm here on my own... Daughter #1 is a good help but sometimes she's a bit hard to jump start. Hopefully there will be no surprises.
Well it is getting late and there is a sleeping dog with it's chin on my foot and I think it's time to hit my pillow... all is peaceful and Daughter #2 is sleeping, Daughter #1 is reading in the sunroom and is too excited about her trip to sleep... she'll have time in the vehicle to do lots of that. Teapot is packing the last of his gear. They leave at 10 a.m. My knitting is sitting on the side table next to my chair in the sunroom... it's calling me... I just wonder to I have the hutspa to knit another row or two or should I just face reality and head off to bed....
I think bed is winning.
Good night... and stay tuned for my foray into Pioneer days at the HH museum, I'll be in costume...
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