(no subject)
Jul. 2nd, 2011 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinThings the kids have learned this week:
* A big bouncy ball makes a very satisfying splash in the wading pool.
* Going down the slide backwards is more fun when Mom is watching, because she freaks out.
* If you balance just right, you can jump out of a moving swing and land on your feet. Mom freaks out about that, too.
* A good coat of sidewalk chalk improves the sliding speed on the slide.
* Climbing into Momma's lap freshly wet from the pool makes her squeak.
* The cats don't want to read the Disney Princess coloring book, even if you put it under their noses.
* Wet sidewalk chalk sticks to chairs better.
* Momma has no sense of humor about rearranging her sewing box, even though it was a lot more colorful when we were done.
* Wind-up cars don't run in the pool.
In other news, the garden is blooming well despite the heat. Daisies and daylilies are in full sail, queen Anne's lace is going strong, along with threadleaf mountain mint, lavender, oregano, agastache, liatris, cannas, petunias, and the first bright zinnias. (Incidently, the autocorrect on my phone wants to turn "zinnias" into "submissions". Theories about that are left as an exercise for the reader.)
I am still knitting on a head scarf, but hope to be done with that today, and I need to whip up a flowered pin for on of the hats I made last week, then that set of projects will be done. Am making fair headway on my big cross stitch piece, the Green Goddess, maybe 10% done. Enough that it's starting to look like something, anyway.
Am tempted to drop everything and knock out a couple of temari this weekend. The temari list is doing a colors of Wimbledon challenge: using a white, black, or navy base, stitch whatever design you want in the colors of the bouquets the ladies are carrying. Which means a couple shades of purple, lime green, and something else. It's one of those "out of your comfort zone" projects, and sounds like fun.
Not sure how much headway we'll make on the house this weekend; it's supposed to be terribly hot for a few more days. Not like the 102 it hit yesterday, but up there. At least it's hot enough the gate's stopped growing.
* A big bouncy ball makes a very satisfying splash in the wading pool.
* Going down the slide backwards is more fun when Mom is watching, because she freaks out.
* If you balance just right, you can jump out of a moving swing and land on your feet. Mom freaks out about that, too.
* A good coat of sidewalk chalk improves the sliding speed on the slide.
* Climbing into Momma's lap freshly wet from the pool makes her squeak.
* The cats don't want to read the Disney Princess coloring book, even if you put it under their noses.
* Wet sidewalk chalk sticks to chairs better.
* Momma has no sense of humor about rearranging her sewing box, even though it was a lot more colorful when we were done.
* Wind-up cars don't run in the pool.
In other news, the garden is blooming well despite the heat. Daisies and daylilies are in full sail, queen Anne's lace is going strong, along with threadleaf mountain mint, lavender, oregano, agastache, liatris, cannas, petunias, and the first bright zinnias. (Incidently, the autocorrect on my phone wants to turn "zinnias" into "submissions". Theories about that are left as an exercise for the reader.)
I am still knitting on a head scarf, but hope to be done with that today, and I need to whip up a flowered pin for on of the hats I made last week, then that set of projects will be done. Am making fair headway on my big cross stitch piece, the Green Goddess, maybe 10% done. Enough that it's starting to look like something, anyway.
Am tempted to drop everything and knock out a couple of temari this weekend. The temari list is doing a colors of Wimbledon challenge: using a white, black, or navy base, stitch whatever design you want in the colors of the bouquets the ladies are carrying. Which means a couple shades of purple, lime green, and something else. It's one of those "out of your comfort zone" projects, and sounds like fun.
Not sure how much headway we'll make on the house this weekend; it's supposed to be terribly hot for a few more days. Not like the 102 it hit yesterday, but up there. At least it's hot enough the gate's stopped growing.
