Sometimes I am sad. Sometimes I am okay. Sometimes I am happy. I don't know what regulates all that. I know that Patty and Noodles are happy most of the time that I am home and on our regular schedules. Schedules are important to them.
Today when I woke Patty was smacking her mouth getting her mouth wet after drooling all night. Noodles was yelling. I was dreaming a sad dream about my friend that died in January. So up we go, out the door into the rain, potty time completed for the two of them, and then BREAKFAST! Food is very important to them.
It is so strange since Noodles can come and go as he wishes with the cat door. Every night and every day he goes for the first walk with us and the last walk at night. The rest of the time is his own imaginary free time, until 3 pm. That's dinner time for the two of them. Of course, they have to beg for shares of my dinner, but please do not go over the 3 pm time for them.
I also now have wild birds in the mix of schedules. I cleaned the sugar water for the hummingbirds as scheduled. I threw out more ground seeds and filled the big feeder. I have one woodpecker that will "talk" to me if there isn't enough seed.
So I made a promise over the weekend that I will get the sleeve going on my stranded sweater. It has languished long enough. I made a commitment to myself to finish this before the heat is on. Yesterday was a struggle. I picked up and knitted 131 stitches around the sleeve hole. I counted at least six times, and I got six different numbers. I finally put a stick in between stitches once 50 was counted twice. That worked. I was able to do the first row fine, but the second row had to be completely unknitted. Sigh! I finally got the second row finished. But somehow now the third row is not working. Double Sigh!
So today after everyone was fed and watered and I finished my emails, I said out loud to myself," Today we are going to get this set up finished and the sleeve moving along." Here I sit typing instead of sitting in my knitting chair and knitting.
I notice that I have a lot of bumblebees. I haven't seen as many honeybees as usual. Some of my etnobotany friends say that is good. The honeybees are invaders of the bumblebee territory anyway.
Oh, well.
I am turning the heel on the second sock that is commissioned. I am so over socks right now. I did decide that my easy-peasy summer project is going to be a barn raising afghan. It is knitted in squares. I am using Noro Taiyo sock yarn. I like the two colorways I chose. It is begun in the center, and for some reason it took three tries to get the stupid circle to close. I am real close to done on the first one.
I finally remembered that seeds have to be in the ground by Good Friday! I remembered on Good Friday. I know that is not a real rule, but it was my grandmother's rule. So I seeded some perennials and some sunflowers. I never get a good crop, but the few sunflowers I get are loved by the finches, chickadees, and nuthatches. I did plant some dye flowers, but I think my seed was old. We will see.
Today is a nice soft rain day. It was going good for a while, but has stopped momentarily. I think we still need rain. It hasn't been a bad April, but this is usually a rain month for us. Weather is so unpredictable any more. No patterns to follow.
So keep on knitting through the frustrations and keep on trying. My new motto. See ya next time.
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