This is one of those gorgeous - wish I could bottle days - from when it is February and I’m totally sick of winter.

So we’ve seem to have reached the hot humid high heat phase of the summer.  Fun.

It is a perfect Saturday.  Pefect for puppy class.

Here is Coco after puppy class.  20 minutes of sheer play with other puppies.  She had fun.

First off just let me say, if you sorry if you stopped by earlier and could not get on.  I’m not sure what happened.  It was some sort of server problem.  I did some tinkering.  Don’t know if it’s something I did or it just got done, but it seems all cleared up now.

It rained overnight and was hot, muggy, and cloudy most of the day.  It did finally clear up later, but it stayed hot.

So, I did get to play with my loot a little bit, but mostly I spent the day with DH.  He’s been working a ton on a big project he has going on and we haven’t gotten to just hang for a while.  We just ran some errands and had a big lunch, but it was nice.

Onto the loot.  First off I love, love, love this little book.

This book has not gotten near enough press and it is the cutest book.  I also met the author and she is very nice.  There are some great new concepts in the book and new designs.  There is also some great kitty things I will be making for the feline members of this family.  However, I have to tell you all a new little canine member may be joining our family soon.  So, there will be some special knitting for her.  All will be reveled in time, but when I say little, I mean little.

This will be the first thing I knit from this book.  Isn’t it adorable.

One of the things I love about these shows is the plethora of patterns.  They knit up awesome samples to touch and examine, so you can make your own.  They also have such variety and all of the new things.

Now I really liked this one regardless if she looks like Nancy Reagan or not.

I think Mom would look fantastic in this sweater.  I don’t know about this year, but maybe next.  She has other “I wants” on her list.  I also loved the raglan cabled sweater, you don’t see that much.

Finally there was the must have shawls and this delightful pretty shawl/sweater combo (on the far right), which I think would be gorgeous in an oatmeal or off white.

One of the things that seemed to be plentiful as this festival was indie dyers, which let me just say was a blast.  I found many, many things that could’ve gone home with me, but I was totally in love with Gales Art booth.  She does these crockpot random batts that were super reasonable.  She is a really nice person too.  These were just super fun and I can’t wait to spin them up. So all in all, I stayed on budget, which was good and I had a great time.

About 1:30am big storms rolled in and gave us another good rain.  While I love sleeping in storms, our river was just about going down.  Across the street from us the houses sit right on the river and I’m good with that.  I really don’t want to own river front property. 

It then cleared up and then the clouds rolled right back in again.

Before I went off on my errands, I was able to work on my garden a bit and things appear to be coming along nicely.  Although with all this water, my zucchini is looking a little water logged.  Hopefully it will dry out soon and I will get a nice crop of my zucchini bread like a couple of years ago.  I made 12 loaves that year and had more than enough for stews and grilling.

This was one of those bottle perfect days.  It was beautiful, sunny and warm.  While I don’t totally love warm weather anymore, I know when it’s deep in January, this will be a day to remember.

This has been a weird weather day.  One minute it’s beautiful and then it’s pouring rain.  Now it’s windy beyond belief.  Whew, what a weird day.  This is when it was beautiful out.

This week I was having a chat about my water tower.  This is such a common site around here and most communities have more than one.  I think I’m going to remember to pop my camera in my bag and hopefully in a few weeks we will see some additions to my tower.

Well, it started off shaky, but turned out beautiful today.

Even Miss Sophie enjoyed some summer heat, but is so sensible to stay in the shade.

Well got the haircut touched up again.

It inspired a new outfit to be purchased.  Complete with new sandals.  They were from Born and were way too comfy to pass up.

I’m letting the layers grow out on the hair and finally got it one-length again.  In the back she cut it up and it really took the bulk off.  Plus the layers were seriously straggly in the back, so they needed a bit of trim as it grows down back to one one length bob.  This is definitely nice for summer tough.  We’ll see how it looks tomorrow when I get a whirl at doing it.  It’s never quite the same (lol).

Finally we had a great day out and were able to pick up my two new-to-me chairs and they look barely sat in.  The folks were really nice when we got to their house and made sure I tried each and pushed all the way back in the recliner portion.  We were loaded and out of there in about 10 minutes and off to catch lunch.

By the time we got home, I got a shot in of my water tower before the rain.

Well today was hazy, hot, and humid.  Too bad I already did “h” for the ABC Along, because today was a 3-h day. 

I’m hibernating in the house today, just vegging.  I have just been tired all this past week, so some veg time is necessary.

Today was a beautiful, warm summer-like day around these parts. I spent a good part of the day cruising around town doing some errands and looking for some acceptable chairs for my new spinning/knitting/crafting room.

Since we don’t seem to have enough regular guests to warrant having two full time guest rooms, we decided to store one of the beds and make the one room, I’ve seem to taken over anyway, into my crafty space. I think DH just wants to try to contain the crafty area to one room and my basement dyeing and wool storage area, of course. When I had to have an overflow to my overflow room DH started suggesting this idea.

We’ve moved the bed out and I have it somewhat organized. I’ve already bought new shelving. Now just the chairs. I ended up at a cool vintage shop in downtown Rockford that didn’t quite have what I was looking for, but did have some very nice things. I would like it to have a kick out bottom for comfort, but be somewhat straight back, so I can stick a pillow back there and maintain somewhat decent posture. I have short legs, so I need it low to the floor, but not too low. What an adventure.

I did manage to pick up my garden plants. It seems I probably should have bought last weekend as they were seriously picked over, but I managed. We got the raised beds back in order this evening, but then got chased in by mosquitoes, so I only managed to get the peppers in and put my strawberry bed back in order. When I get them done tomorrow, I’ll get a few shots.