Those Summer Doldrums

I guess that is the word for it. I have not had the urge to knit for the last week or so.
I don't really know why. Maybe the heat -- but I am inside mostly.

I have been trying to figure out what to do with the lovely Aran yarn from Ireland.
So I have been thinking knitting. Just not doing any.

Tonight I am making myself knit. That way I get over these doldrums.

I am reading some too, so that is taking up my free time.

Keeping Busy

Spend yesterday late afternoon and evening with these 2 cuties. Mallory and Layne. They are the kids of my coworker. She and her husband went to a concert.

The baby is almost 4 mos and she was easy and fun. Layne is 2 and man I have forgotten how talkative a 2 year old is. She kept my girls hopping. She loved being outside. She is a good kid. I kept them up a bit late -- so I hope they slept well last night for their mom and dad.


So as you can tell there was no knitting going on -- and this proves why I never learned to knit when my hands were busy with little kids!

Still

Knee deep in berries.

Or at least that is how I feel.

Yesterday I took the car to the shop and was then trapped at home - so I made 24 blueberry muffins (some are in the freezer now).

And I made a blueberry buckle (read coffeecake) - YUM!

These are the pretty berries on the vine - even a few blooms still to turn to berries.

I ran out of flour (even after raiding the neighbor's kitchen).

Today I will make a couple pies - one for the neighbors mentioned above.

I tell the kids they have to eat 1/2 a pound a day to help me out.

Hopefully, I will have some finished knitting to show off - depends on

how stressed I am over all these blueberries.

BERRY Fun

We spent the weekend with family up north and in the process picked lots and lots of blueberries.

As you can see Rob trying to feed Noelle a fresh berry!

Here is Brooke picking her share of the lovely fruit.

My little neice is starting to try to crawl and is just full of smiles.

Doesn't she look like her big brother?

Lovely family weekend - now to spend tomorrow making lots of blueberry items.

Anyone got any great blueberry recipes?

One of Those Weeks

Things have been busy here all week. The youngest is working at VBS at our church everyday. Then the oldest is working at it just some days. Plus my son has his volunteer job 2 days this week and I am working somewhere mixed in these times. So lots of getting people here there and everywhere.

Then yesterday I did not feel well right before work - finally got feeling well enough to make my shift - but I was a bit late. After working I had to hurry home to get Brooke and our half dog and get them to the county 4-H fair for dog obedience.
They did pretty good. This is their 5 year doing this (not to mention that little sis did it last year with the dog due to the big trip Brooke took) - so the dog is a 6 year pro.
And we are sad to realize that this is probably the last year -- at least for the girl --she is just too busy with band and high school stuff. And hopefully a job next year (this is mom's goal anyway).

Our summer has kicked into full gear and I will wonder what happened when it is over that is for sure.

A Good Day

We had free tickets to see the local minor league team play today. It was a lovely day outside -- not so humid as it normally can be this time of year. Here is our home team scoring the winning run.

Once the shade started to reach us I broke out the knitting! So family time in the sunshine, a win, and some knitting. What could be better.

A Boy and His Kilt

Here he is in his lovely Scottish kilt! He actually looks good in it!