Feeling a lot better today. For the first time my energy feels “real,” not something brought about by coffee. Not that I’ll squander it, mind you. Not messing about with pneumonia, I promise. But I know I do have enough energy to go buy some pots and some soil and then to tamp my little plants into them. No more than that. But if I don’t get Out There, I’ll get sicker. I know that. Must. Be. In. Garden.
I promise I won’t go look at statuary. Ahem.
Hey, I was going through pictures last night, while I was making a new banner (you like? It’s a detail of one photo, although it looks like two. I’m standing on a small pier jutting into the canal, looking San Marco-ward. It reflects my current passion for orange…..) and I found a picture of Bethany’s sweater. Did I ever show you?
It was for her birthday and it matches the design of Christy’s Harry Rodgers sweater (see Finito gallery). I think I made it and mailed it without ever posting the pic. That makes me feel a little better about my gallery which hasn’t been added to in a LONG time….. Oh, Cromarty….
And this is what I’ve been working on lately, while waiting for the new dyelot from Koigu to finish Cromarty:
It’s the Retro Prep from the Fall 2002 Interweave Knits, in Noro 55. I tried it on last night, the needles hanging around my neck, and I think it may turn out to be a wee bit boxy on my already boxy frame, and I may cardiganize it, like I do everything else. I’ll finish it and let you be the judge.
Off to play now. Mwah.
Hi Rachael
Love the new banner photo!!
Fresh air is good but don’t over-do-it on the gardening please, we want you to recover :o)
So, does Adah think you’re making the Prep mainly to complement her? RP is what I’m contemplating for my basic charcoal raglan (if I ever finish anything else, that is).
The neener-neener-neener weather comments from the in-laws have begun, so I’m not too worried about your planned adventures. Plus I KNOW you will be sensible. Right? 😉
Love the banner. That wall is so beautiful – let alone the rest of the picture. Venice is a place I hope one day to see.
Glad you are feeling better! Can “hear” it through your words…just take care Mz. Missy…you got lotza KB momma’s out here worrying about you!
Glad you read you’re feeling better. Those sweaters are wonderful!
Yay for feeling better enough to garden! I think gardening can be healing, but it’s also hard work in a deceptive way, so I hope you are still feeling better after some tamping and sowing and planting. Sounds heavenly to me.
I love the banner shot as well.
LOVE THAT BANNER! I gasped out loud when your site opened. Of course I knew immediately that meant you were in Puter mode, soon to be followed by Extravagant Garden Project mode…
Just a teensy bit of advice…plant a little something if you MUST and then just SIT outside in the garden, ‘k? No dragging home heavy statuary….Just looking, yeah, uh hunh…whatevah…..perhaps if you HAVE to look at garden ornamentation, you could TRY out the chaise lounges…..
The Retro prep? wow. Cardiganize….I think I’ll call the Scrabble dictionary folks…that is the coolest. word.ever.
One more thing. I was driving home from ManLand this morning and followed a truck for five miles with a big banner on the back….
Cromartie Trucking.
I kid you NOT.
Hehehe, I’m laughing because I see Greta got such a kick out of the new verb just like I did. Hmmm, “to cardiganize.” Maybe it should mean to organize one’s cardigans??? Hehehe, I’m still laughing over here. 🙂 Have a wonderful day in garden, hehehe!
Glad you’re feeling better! Gardening is so hard to resist when spring is beckoning… I just managed to get the basil in (yay!) before rain today. The fresh air will be so good and healing, not to mention dirt in the hands, smelling green things, aahh… Can you tell I’m in garden mode? 🙂 Just take care of yourself (as everyone has said!)– nothing like relaxing and looking at your new plants! 🙂
I can feel the garden longing in your writing–and thus I can tell that being outside will indeed make you feel better. won’t necessarily make your cough sound better or anything like that, but it will make YOU feel better. go to it.
Your new blog banner is breathtaking! I want to go there someday! I need to make a new blog banner….this weekend!
Thank God you’re feeling better. I was afraid I’d killed you!
I love the cardie (which you already know), and your new banner is fabulous! Can you change the lettering to yellow on My Glass House? If not, it still looks amazing. Love you,