.....it's been a long time since i posted last....today is the last day of summer 2009....this was one rainy summer.....living in the swamp you kind of expect the summer to be somewhat rainy....hot, humid and rainy....but this summer's rain beat the band.....we had a full week of sunny days in early June....and then not again until two weeks ago....and i don't mean it rained and then cleared up....it rained and rained and rained....and after that it rained and rained and rained.....and then it rained and rained and rained for days.....actually for three solid months.....with bouts of intense down-pouring, ten inches in twenty four hours, OMG it's raining again, rain....i actually like the rain....it kept the heat from being sweltering....all the new plantings we did in the spring have grown like mad with two exceptions....the Black Dragon Kryptomeria bit the dust.....i think it drowned.....and a really prettily shaped young oak tree died too from too much water.....we have had zero tropical storms/hurricanes this year....too cool from all the rain i guess.....
....finally put some fish in the ponds.....we got a couple of dozen Comets....goldfish.....only two have died....they are pretty hardy....we got a few pliecostomus....don't know how to spell it and all i got from the spell checker is Pentecostals....and that's definitely not what we put in the ponds....you know, algae eaters....they, however, are not as hardy as the goldfish....we've lost four already....it, guess what, rained the day after we got them and i think the change in water temperature probably affected them....
....kate and i are knitting again....we are knitting for the Oyate Teca Project for the Children of Pine Ridge....we both started top-down v-neck sweaters.....you can follow this link on Ravelry to find the group and the project.....
.....i'm also deconstructing the cushion covers on our couches.....they've got perfectly good vinyl welting in them so i'm listening to Fleetwood Mac and picking the seams.....the upholstery is shot on the sofas, but the i really like the shape of them.....we've been painting....walls, furniture, and other items different shades of white....i've got the fabric to do slipcovers....different cotton duck whites, and natural linen....i just need to get the mojo to go with the giant roll of fabric....i actually know what i want to do but i'm having a where am i going to cut this out dilemma.....i kind of need another person to help me roll it out so i can cut it.....i want to wash and iron it before i do the final cuts and seaming.....so a lot of prep work....
....Guitar Hero is home from sea.....he and Handyman Humperdink both got SLR cameras on ebay and have been shooting a bunch of rolls around here and around town....they are having the film put on Cd's at different places that do film developing....someone asked them the other day when they wanted to turn in some film rolls: "do people still do that?".....
.....no photos for this post, but with all the picture taking surely i can get some for another post.....i've really neglected the blog this year and i don't know if i'm ready to return to daily posting, but i will do random updates now and then....when i get that mojo
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