Yesterday was Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer in the US. Thanks to the vets who keep us safe. I really appreciate the men and women who died for what they believed in.
We cooked burgers on the grill. I love burgers cooked outside with mayo and mustard and a slice of tomato, even if the tomatoes aren't very good yet. We had a big salad, potato salad, sugar snap peas from the garden and peach shortcake. It was wonderful!
My dyeing has slowed down a bit. I dyed a good bit of roving for a fiber fair where my colleagues were vendors brought a lot of it back, so I'm caught up. I am dyeing some colors I need - and washing and dyeing mohair locks.
I want to hang out in the basement - a clear sign of summer. It's cool and dark and I can card fiber for later spinning. I've also been doing a bit of de-cluttering again. I'm hitting kitchenware, clothing and quilting fabric this time.
Knitting? That too, is in summer slow-down mode. A hat or 2 a week, I'll likely finish the June socks fairly soon, since they were recently pulled from the marination chamber. I actually like to spin in the summer, so I'll have hand spun yarn come fall. I finished 2 skeins last week and the recent carding will help in that department.
The garden is planted and weeded and mulched. Not much to do except cut the grass every week or so, keep ahead of the weeds and pick the vegies and fruits as they ripen. The peas and onions are pumping out, we are eating kale, the beans are climbing. The poppies are beautiful, but I don't take any credit for that. They simply grow and spread their seeds around.
One of the surest signs of summer is the mood on campus - pretty relaxed. My day job is a 12-month staff gig at a small liberal arts college. Although I am busy getting ready for my summer workshops for teachers, the overall place is a ghost town. The faculty are gone, except when they are here to teach a class.
Summer time, and the livin' is easy!
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