Rumor has it that there will be no zucchini this year.
The garlic, onions, and green beans look really good. The salad and lettuce are always welcome, and I've been developing a taste for kohlrabi. Caleb likes the bok choi in dumplings.
I'm back now. I'm planning to stay in Providence for all of August (with the exception of possible trips to Ikea or the like). I was at a professional development camp all this past week, and only got knitting done when I went to see the Star Trek movie. (The climactic finale ended up throwing off my ribbing. It was a good movie.)
Here's the sock:
I'm calling it the Ceilidh sock because I did a lot of it in Nova Scotia at various ceilidhs. (Q at one: What's a ceilidh? A: The Cape Breton version of a kitchen party.) (These that we went to were like concerts.) Something about the happy, frolicsome colors also makes me think of the music.
I haven't posted recently because I was on vacation in Nova Scotia. I was at CSI the first week of July, was home for a week, left for Canada, and am currently home for 24 hours before leaving for another professional thing.
I did get a lot of knitting done as Caleb drove the Cabot trail; I finished the knitting of the Providence Socks, did the foot and heel of the first of another pair of socks (to be known as the Ceilidh Socks), and got a bit of Juno done:
I have one more chart to do and I’ll be finished the first lace end.
As I was walking by the decorative basket where the Orange Aran is currently living, I noticed something on the ends of the needles. A tiny spider had set up shop and was spinning.
Of course, I did the only thing I could do: I made a bag to hide it.
(It's a neat corduroy with a floral pattern that I made a skirt out of. The basic idea is copied from my official Paw Sox Stitch and Pitch bag.)
I did, though, also work on the sweater a little:
(The spider didn't change the color of the sweater; I just changed the color in hopes of getting the pattern to show up better.)
CSI was marvelous. The classes I took were the two best I've had there.
I've gotten the second sock rather far along:
Now, there's just the laundry and the adjustment to the lack of classes, lectures, and mozzarella sticks for dinner.
At the New Bedford Summerfest, I got finished the first Providence sock and started the second. I also got to try shape note singing, which was truly awesome.
I'm now at CSI, and am knitting away on the second sock. I'd forgotten how quickly the little beasties go when one concentrates on them for a chunk of time.
I'm learning about Proto-Indo-European (the tastiest of languages!) and ancient food, as well as going to reading group (Ovid) and the lectures. There are at least two other knitters in the food class alone.
I really love CSI. It's so refreshing to come somewhere where I can talk about my favorite authors and sit on a couch with people and discuss consonant shifts.
This picture contains something that hasn't been seen in Providence for a while: sunlight. It rained 25 out of the first 29 days of June. There was flooding this week in many places.
If I wanted to live in Seattle, I'd live in Seattle. They have more options when it comes to coffee.
(Actually, it turns out Seattle has been much drier recently than the East Coast.)
I'll just watch out for it the squirrels and robins start lining up two by two. (Or are they the clean animals who'd be in sevens?)
