What a summer it has been. I probably say this every year but the high heat and humidity have been crazy!
The garden is hanging in and the beans are ready. The potatoes look good too and the tomatoes are just starting. The squash and cucumbers are still struggling to withstand the yellow striped beetles. Never have I ever seen so many and for the first time, we have Japanese beetles. They are big and scary and mow down plants like piranhas.
I try to get out in the garden quite often as I find it very peaceful and I can measure progress as I weed, mulch and eventually harvest. Small victories are now very important to me, and I have learned that happiness can be here and now.
First harvest of yellow and green string beans. We have been eating the Chioggia beets as they are better when small. I did not know that cooking them dulls their vibrancy. So I tried eating them raw in salad and they are so delicious!
Summer savoury will soon be ready for drying and then red beets for canning. Not sure if the corn will produce, it needs so much water and the rain barrel is dry. Fingers crossed we will get rain this week.
I just finished Poppy cat rug and have started colour planning the next. I have great joy making rugs and I am so thankful that my stroke didn’t take that. I am very lucky, that I know, because I am still here. I am yes, different, and outside I walk and communicate differently than before, but I am still in here, just different. Unfortunately, figuring out new things or old things that my brain thinks are new can be scary and so darn hard. Like adding a picture. I don’t remember how and I go round and round searching and I can’t seem to grasp it. It feels like I am trying to reach something on the top shelf and I just can’t seem to grab it. It stinks.
I will ask my kids. They will know.
Rug Hooking Rants 