While starting to move my house plants indoors for the coming winter I just happened to recall that this plant moved here with me from Florida in 1979. My sister had given me the start of it… I can’t remember when… but this is my oldest plant and the only survivor of that other life. Let’s see… that makes it 25+ years old. It’s called a Drunkards Dream (I don’t know it’s Latin name) and you can understand why it got that name if you study it! 😀 But it has small, delicate white flowers and blooms every year. In spite of it’s homeliness it’s one of my favorites.

I talked about my fall colors in the ad this week so I thought I’d post a picture of what I meant. This is the Hickory tree that Grandfather planted from some nuts his brother sent from back east, years ago. It is really pretty this time of year. It doesn’t last long but really lights up the yard for a time. I thought my diamonds blended well with this picture. They are going into the felted bag I’ve been working on. I also have some red that matches the Woodbine on the porch. 🙄
We had our first fall rain last night. Not a lot but hopefully enough to deminish the fire danger for awhile. The forest looks green and happy this morning, anyway. 🙂

This is before on the left and after on the right.
We’ve been talking about it for years but just never got to it. But today the whole yard was smelling like a the still had burst! lol The tree makes a bumper crop of pity bad tasting apples that even the deer won’t eat so they tend to fall and ferment before I get them rakes up and carted off. It’s virtue was a bit of shade, but there’s still several oaks, an ash, a maple, and a little tree who’s family line is unknown so that little shade want’ enough to save it today. The place looks a lot bigger, too. Once he cuts the stump and I get rid of the old dog house I’ll clean this area up and that’s where the picnic table will sit in the summer. My bulb garden is there if I can discourage the blackberries. :plain:

My LYS is having a bear knitting for charity. They supply the yarn, pattern, and stuffing. I, naturally, have woven mine. There’s enough yarn left to make a baby or maybe two. I think mom and twins would be cute! The bear looks like she has lint, but it is white flecks in the maroon yarn and doesn’t really look linty in “real life”. I had a heck of a time finding a ribbon color that would go and finally settled on the yellow as the best, :confused: tho I have a pink that might go.
But now I have to get back to my diamonds. While I was in the LYS I stocked up on enough yarn to finish the Big Bag so now all I need is the time. Naturally. :laugh:

We had a great time at the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival in Canby, OR this weekend. Met some old friends and some new friends and hopefully ‘hooked’ a lot of people to weaving with the looms. Got this picture of Rosy “mugging” for the camera… it’s her fault so I’m not apologizing for posting this picture! 😉
I wove a couple squares using the Pendleton shirt factory selvages they sell for run making. I wove on the 14″ square using every other nail and I think they came out beautifully! I’ll post a photo when I finish it. I thought I’d do six 14″ squares to make a little “throw” rug. If I like how it does I’ll work on a bigger one. You can see them in the pictures, tho not very well, the red one is still on the loom, at Rosy’s feet, and the dark one is hanging over the edge of the table with strings hanging down. She’s weaving diamonds for a scarf.

Rosy found some shiny black eyelash yarn in her stash and was knitting the “wig” from the new knitty.com. Naturally, we all had to try it on! lol Not particularly flattering to any of us, of course, but Randy was the only one who got caught wearing it! :laugh:

Taz sleeps on the rug in front of the toilet. 😎 But in the winter when it gets cold she moves into the laundry basket under the counter. Last night was her first night in the laundry basket since spring. It’s also 41 degrees this morning. Not frost yet, but pretty chilly for mid September.

Grandson Chris planted a whole packet of sunflower seeds in this big nursery pot. I don’t think they were dwarf, but if not conditions had made them so! They are pretty cute, tho. The inset pic shows them aboput life sized. 1 to 1 1/2 inces across. Those sunflower seeds are going to be tiny! But Chris, I love them! We better plant more next summer!

I said I’d do it. It took a while but I did it. Some of you will be horrified :O (Randy!) but few of you will be delighted :D, too. I am! And it spins just as well as it ever did! The words on the wheel, which you probably can’t see in the picture, say “Hazel’s Hot Wheel”. It’s first spinning job is some carder waste decorator yarn. That stuff I most love to spin. Now I have to make a new oriface hook because my copper and orange glass beads no longer match. I told Randy last week that I couldn’t use the aluminum wire he was trying to give me. Guess I’ll have to go see if he still has it! 😛

Guess I got “infected”! I dunno how I came to do this, just found myself making a star and thought, well, that looks pertty much like Sponge Bob’s best buddy and one thing led to the next… :blush: comes of having the grandkids around this summer, I guess! lol But it just goes to show that you can weave almost anything you set your mind to! There’s some crocheting in there and the i-cord too, of course. Well, now that I have that out of my system…! 😛
But, hey, Xmas is coming up… if you’ve got a little spare yarn you might want to make the Bikini Bottom Bunch yourself! 😀