...6.3...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...so I did do the rounded toe to finish the body of the sock...

...kitchenered it together at the end...the final 8 stitches top and bottom instead of decreasing again and then pulling all the stitches together...

...and the princess sole bottom...

...still to decide on some sort of cuff...just stockinette stitch doubled...a few rows of ribbing and then a pompom like we used to wear in the 80s...or a regular 1x1 rib cuff...either just one inch and bind off or doubled...I'll have to decide...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...6.1...Over the Weekend...

...we started the weekend with pancakes...

...which is always a good start...

...I had brought home the only leftover piece of Beyond Sausage from Mom's so I also got to have that with my pancakes...

...and then a quick shopping trip as we've got a really big job to do...we're still waiting on our organic soybeans and I got my old SoyQuick soymilk maker out of storage...so hopefully soon I won't have to worry about finding unsweetened soymilk anymore...

...but I had my regular Popz treat while I was shopping...

...and then we got started...the new grass plugs had arrived...we were worried that they'd come while we were away and that would have been bad because they shouldn't sit unopened and unplanted for very long...

...we've got this patch in the front lawn under the Yaupon tree where our Centipede grass really struggles...so hopefully this shade tolerant version of St. Augustine grass will be able to grow well here...

...the Man prepped the area with new topsoil...

...all ready for planting...

...then he used a special tool to drill about 300 little holes...and I went behind him and put a little spoonful of moisture beads that will swell and hold some moisture for the new grass as it gets a foothold...

...and then I got down on my knees and put one little grass plug into each of the little holes...

...it was a lot of work...

...and I'm not all that used to being bent over on my knees for a long time...

...but like almost all repetitive tasks like this...

...it was eventually finished...haha...

...I'll defnitely keep you posted on how the grass grows...

...and I think the only food prep I did was to make a batch of pasta salad which I stored in individual servings...it's not the Man's favorite so I'll probably be eating all of it...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...5.30...Dinner and a Movie...

...we had the leftover bits of a box of spinach...so I sautéed those...

...to go with the Man's fabulous spaghetti...

....and for the movie...we finished 2001...it was really good...and a little bit more suspenseful that I was expecting...

...what have you been watching lately?...

~Have a lovely weekend!

...5.29...Friday Update...

...the very first thing I did was to transplant the 'volunteer' lettuces from around the eggplant...it's already pretty hot so i'm not sure they'll survive at all here...

...then I weeded all of the squash and pumpkins...

...then I mulched them all with straw...

...and I mulched all of the Rutgers tomatoes...

...and attached strings for the Rattlesnake beans to climb on and helped some of the little tendrils get started climbing...

...the blueberries were covered to protect them from the birds...

...but I spied a few blueberries that were ready to be picked so I took the covers off and picked them...this will be an almost daily task for the next week or so...

...just a good handful this time...I'll probably save a quart of them to make the Man's favorite blueberry cobbler soon...

...and every garden's nemesis was spotted out front beside the gardenias...yikes...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...5.28...Delicious Vegan Food we ate...

...we made another Instant Pot of the Orca beans...

...and had those with a nice crunchy vegan cornbread and greens...

...what delicious food have you been eating lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...5.27...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...y'all have already seen the athletic sock update in my lap in the car...but I had made Sissie a new dishcloth...just using the leftover yarn from those tan socks I'd made a couple of years ago and had to buy a whole skein of yarn to finish them...so it's kind-of an odd colour for a dishcloth...

...and I found a nice hefty mug with her initial on it...and got out the traveling card...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...5.25...Over the Weekend...

...we had a big family breakfast before heading home...Mom and Karen made hashbrowns and Beyond Sausage...

...and this time on the 'dessert' table there was canteloupe, fresh strawberries and blueberries and my sweet S.I.L.'s homemade jam and bagels...

...my delicious breakfast...

...and then before we headed out I said goodbye to Kitten...she was doing what she does best...sleeping of course...

...so I woke her up for a little cuddle...

...and this is what most of the drive home looked like...

...but I had some free knitting time as the Man was driving...

...and it cleared up as bit as we got closer to home...

...when we got home we found that the Easter lillies that we'd transplanted to the spot where we moved the already-once-moved gardenias location under the yaupon tree had finally bloomed...so happy that they are thriving in their new location...

...and inside...I had been pulling out the wilted flowers from my anniversary bouquet...

...and we're now down to the final few flowers...so I got a lot of enjoyment out of those...

...then we unpacked everything that we'd brought back...sweet canteloupe and watermelon, corn on the cob, sweet potatoes, tomato and onions all from the Farmer's Market...a box of vegan croissants...we definitely don't have those here...

...and then we headed out to do a really quick shopping trip...

...the only thing we really needed was the T.P. ...haha...

...and then we just rested up from the trip...funny how traveling makes you want to rest...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!