Archive | July 2024

It’s summer time…. July

Jul26

Hot last week, not quite as hot this week, repeat… We’ve been going to as much as 107 one week down to 89 the next and back again so far this month. Last heat spell was not quite as hot, which is a good thing. But mostly we stay indoors when it gets extreme. Mornings and evenings become time for outside tasks. The garden is pretty sketchy this summer, What with the last start and the extreme weather early on, it didn’t get planted on time and some things just don’t like the temps, I guess and aren’t doing well. But we are eating zucchini now at least! lol My chard and kale wee among those that didn’t like conditions so I’m having to buy my greens this year. But the black berries are starting to ripen.

Been getting some weaving done and working in the shop. I have two classes at Lambtown and have been getting stuff done for those.

Invited Cousin Dan down for dinner last night. Pizza. But just before he arrived the oven which was preheating, started smoking, and we discovered something under the bottom, was afire! Flames coming up though the vents. It got a little exciting for a bit, but Cuz enjoyed the fun, too. Turned out Katt has not been doing his job! A mouse had been stealing from his dry food bowel and, for some reason, storing it in the oven, just under the burners where it proved to be quite flammable. And it hadn’t been there long as I baked bread 5 or 6 days before and it was fine. But we got that out and we ended up baking the pizza in the Silver Fox Cabin oven. Good thing it was not rented this week! But we had a nice dinner and visit in the end so… all’s well that ends well, as the bard said.  A little excitement for the day, humm?

  It was pretty good.     Katt is heck on rubber snakes even if he does sleep though mouse raids.

My old peach tree has lost another branch so not going to have much of a crop from it this year, wither. it lost several last winter. It is reaching the end. I guess I’d better start looking for a replacement. I think I’ll try to find the same kind if I can find the name tag and identify it. it was a good producer for a long time in spite of spring weather, bloom time when it wants to rain or have a late freeze.

From August 2022.

Still missing Rosy. It just makes no sense that she should leave before me, being the youngest of us girls. I send her an email now and then but so far she hasn’t answered. It’s the pits.

  We were just goofing off,

 

July…

Jul3

Just returned from Black Sheep Gathering. Not horrible but  little disappointing profit wise. The peg looms are still having their day. sold out of 36″ and have 5 orders at home. He’s got orders and contractor work to do here, too, and is gone off this morning with Search & Rescue to find a lost person. He’s their tracker.

Katt was happy to see us. He escaped from the cage twice before we left. We gave up and let him stay outside. A neighbor came over and fed him. He did lose some weight having to share with the Jay who found his food bowl under the porch bench. Dc. Spencer was kind and did not charge me for having to cancel at the last minute. We’ll bring the cage in a few days before leaving next time so he’ll get used to it and not panic when he sees it coming out. I understand some cats will go in the travel cage on their own but I’ve never had one of those.

Brought a lot of canning jars home from Rosy’s stash. I can use some of them but a lot will likely go to the Farmers Market. Our garden is pretty meager this year. We did not get it going very promptly  this spring. Partly the weather and partly our schedule, and to be honest, partly because we kept putting stuff off.

So theoretically I have July, August and most of September to get ready for the fall shows. Have no classes at OFFF this year, I guess they didnt’ like my offerings. but have 3 at Lambtown! Hope I’m up to that! lol One is an all day weaving lace class. I think that’s going to be fun. I also promised several people that I’d try to get a book of pattern stitches for the looms done this summer. Don’t hold your breath but I really will try to get that done. I need an advisor as I tend to get right to the point and so my books are short and not very pretty.  There’s always a bunch of stuff before the books get around to the main topic. I guess that’s the part I need. Well, as I said, I’ll try.

Picked peas last evening when we got home.  There’s a nice ‘mess’. which we’ll have for dinner tonight. It’s going to be hot today and Very hot for the nest couple before it cools a little. However, Himself got hot last night and pulled the 2nd blanket off the bed. I woke about 3 am freezing! It only got down to 53 last night so I guess freezing is a bit of an exaggeration, but I was cold. I got up and closed my bedroom window but it didn’t help much. finally gave it up about 5:30 and got up.

I carried my camera along this trip but never thought to use it. Truck and trailer made it up and back with no surprises this time. I did get the kitchen cotton patchwork shirt finished and wore it in the booth. It was quite popular. I did weave those ends in first, tho!

We sold Rosy’s Schacht Matchless double treadle spinning wheel and her Duncan carder. The Duncan’s were at BSG and the buyer took it over to him and Mr. Duncan went over it and tightened everything up and put on a new belt. I thanked him later and he said he just wanted to make sure they kept working. A nice elderly couple. Is that PIC* coming from me?! lol

*I’m learning to speak text… this means Politically InCorrect.

That’s todays news, not very exciting but more exciting then the rest of my day which will start with vacuuming, I think, then unloading the trailer. I was hoping he’d  undertake that but I expect he’s going to be gone the rest of today looking for the lost guy.  But I hope your 4th is going to be fun, safe, and (however unlikely) cool!