I fully intended to sit in front of the fire today and crochet… that’s all.
Then I remembered wanting to chisel out the remaining packs of beef that were laminated to the bottom of the freezer – out with the hammer and screwdriver!! Happily Jeff took over the job, because I am short and its a long way to the bottom of the freezer 🙂
Then… because we started so sunny I put on laundry. And yes it was raining by the time it was ready to go out. And no – I never learn. Because Jeff had taken down my undercover line to repurpose it into a cat lead, I had to spend some time restringing the new line.
Of course – despite yesterdays gale force winds, nary a breeze today so all I achieved by hanging the clothes outside was to make them colder! (Fireside fixed them though!)
Then… I remembered my rock tumbler that was tumbling away in the shed. I figured the rocks must be about ready.
Once dry, most of them weren’t as highly polished as I know they can go… so I spent some quality nerd-time by admiring each one and forcing Jeff to stop whatever he was doing and join me in mutual admiration of all the colours and patterns before returning them to the tumbler for a few more days work.
So – I eventually DID get to my fire and crochet – I did a little more with the new wool…
But forced myself to get back to my original shawl as really, there is not that much further to go before its done.
In the middle of all this, cousin Jeff dropped off a rather soggy load of wood – slid his truck down into the yard and almost redesigned our vegetable garden!!! 😀
We are getting him to bring a couple more loads soon – we threw tonights lot under cover (Which is good because right now its PELTING down rain out there!) and will see about stacking it tomorrow.
And that is the weekend done and dusted!
Hope you all had a great one!
Cheers
Polished rocks are so beautiful! The colors are amazing!
Thank-you…. hoping in a few days they will be ready! Collecting them is so addicting!
those rocks are beautiful! whatever shall you do with them?
Your crochet projects are super. most of the time it’s too hot to crochet here but I did manage to put a few rows on my afghan yesterday. mind you it’s only about a foot across!
Hi Linda!! Good question re the rocks! Mostly I just admire them!! I don’t have jewelry making skills… I wouldn’t mind putting them out at the market when I eventually go back to sell a few. I did make some keyrings, but I need to find a better way to adhere them to the chains.
Thank-you re crochet! I can imagine it wouldn’t be nice to sit under a blanket in summer as you make it! It is the perfect cool weather hobby!
Do you have a photo of your afghan on your blog?
Good job, you went and got my long-buried rock hound wanting to have a go at finding interesting specimens again. Well it certainly can’t hurt to add that to my list of things to collect while travelling – and rock tumblers are just FUN! Hard pressed to say which is my favorite, but if I had to I’d say the first one. It’s just magical!
You may need extra space… we have a LOT of buckets of rocks. 🙂
I could make them into temporary bee-watering holes / art garden… get big vases and keep them on the patio? 😉
Thats a really nice idea!!!