just to say i did

i worked up this lacy motif today using some leftover yarn. it's from a crochet afghan book i found in my bookcase. i like it. a couple dozen of them strung together into an afghan would look elegant, classy even, if worked in a solid white or cream. i don't see myself creating a couple dozen of these, let alone taking the time to string them together. i knew that going in, but i worked it up anyway. just to say i did.

change of plans

saturday night as i was leaving the store, the check engine light came on in my car. since automotive repair is not my area of expertise, i figured i'd spend my day off getting it checked out. so i got up early this morning to be at the shop when they opened (gotta love the first-come, first-served, no reservations mentality). halfway there, however, the light went off. i pulled over and re-started the car ... the light didn't come back on. so i took her for a bit of a drive and re-started the car again ... still no light. so i went and got the oil changed instead. and now i think i might lay down for a nap.

too loud for the hoa?

i have a scarf done for one of our trees. have i shown you that, yet? the scarf is striped in five bright colors. very bright. i love it. but i have to wonder if it's too loud for the home owners' association.



perhaps this yarn would be more acceptable?


i'm still going to sew the bright scarf onto the tree this fall, but i'm not going to work up the second one until i can safely judge the hoa's response.

slow sunday

i'm off work today, my roommate's off with her boy, and i'm feeling fairly uninspired to be crafty. correction: i'm feeling fairly uninspired to be crafty in a way that doesn't involve me going out to buy new tools, and i'm trying to avoid buying new tools right now. so what to do? well, i took a nap. because every lazy sunday deserves a noontime nap, right?

good things, june 11

- getting holiday pay when i wasn't expecting it.

do i need to list more? i didn't think so. :)

dying gracefully

blooming radishes

i planted two kinds of radishes: cherry belles and watermelon radishes. the cherry belles had a quick turnaround, about three weeks from planting to harvest. the watermelon radishes, however, are supposed to be in the ground for about ten weeks. ten weeks! now in fairness, they're supposed to end up being about 4" across - very large for a radish. but ten weeks? okay, i can be patient. but then they started blooming. blooming radishes? that seemed ... strange. so i pulled a couple of them up.



at about the same size as the cherry belles, they're definitely not as large as they should be, which is fair since they're supposed to be in the ground for another two weeks.


while the color inside is gorgeous, hopefully more time in the ground helps their texture. these ones were pretty tough. the spiciness was lovely, though. :)