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Yes, I’m pretty sure that frogs and ducks are about the only ones enjoying our current weather system.

Rain, rain and more rain.

So, no outside shots today.

The current knitting project was reduced to laying on the living room floor for our photo shoot.
Poor sweater.

But, as you can see, I’m getting back it he groove. If I can keep making steady progress, I figure I’m about a week or so out from completion.

The “if” is the problem.

I’m hitting that point where I start to get distracted by other wools.

Exhibit A:

I think this is suffolk, or suffolk cross. (I’m branching out a little here!) Got a little from my mystery-wool-connection a while back, and hadn’t really done anything with it until now.

Seems like a really good sock wool. Nice and springy. So that’s what I’m doing.
Plain ole vanilla sock pattern.
The wool has a bit of a yellow cast, so they look kinda french vanilla to me.

And since the weather is so cruddy today, I’ll post a couple of pictures from last weekend when the sun was still in residence-

Peonies:

Rhubarb:

Apple:

Rhody:

So, this week we managed to add a window to the chickenhouse-

And I did a little mindless stashbusting spinning-

Started to get some garden beds turned over and weeded-

Then there was the mowing-

Somehow everything seems so much more orderly and manageable when the yard is freshly mowed.

Unfortunately I have no knitting progress to report.
In a moment of self doubt, I ripped back a few inches, and have not yet gathered the strength to make another run at it. So, I’m now further from my target than I was last week this time.
Oh well. It isn’t likely to get worn until next fall anyway, right?

Take care, and have a good week-

Denise

Ps. Anyone who can identify where I stole my title from this week wins a yet to be identified prize.

The Finished Object (not wool related, but bear with me!)-

Chickens are out of the shop and into their new digs:

Just finished the coop and got the girls out on grass for the first time this afternoon!

The WIP (starting to feel like the perpetual wip!) is finally all on one needle and creeping slowly towards it’s saddle-shouldered, v-necked finish:

And the New Acquisition- is a beautiful book I happened upon at NW Handspun yarns this week.

It’s Poetry in Stitches, by Solveig Hisdal, and while I just discovered it, I guess it was published quite some time ago and has been out of print for a bit.
Lots of fabulous colorwork- Just what I’ll need after finishing the gradient project!

Today The Man and I went up to Marietta Shetlands in Bellingham, to see all their little lambs- and two little guys in particular.

These two cuties are going to be my first sheeps!

Meet Franklin

And Franklin’s little spotty butt

(look at those curls!)

and Felix

Franklin and Felix are twins. Here’s Franklin with their mama, Violet

And here are some of the other little Shetland babies, Wicket and Chrissy

And Ruby

John said that the little boys will be ready to leave their momma in early June.
I’m so excited.

I’m finally going to have sheep!