It is raining and raining. I empty the little yellow rain gauge every other day and it measures five inches. The roads and low fields look like lakes. There was a bit of sun yesterday, but today I spent some knitting time sitting in the hall at school because we were in a tornado watch. The whole school sits in the middle hallway and chats while teachers wait for the all clear on the cell phones. I am working on Kat Coyle's Indigo Ripples skirt, a good pick for aging hippies. I finished my hemp skirt and because it wouldn't dry, I put it in the Southern dehydrator - the van. It dried nicely. I will wear it tomorrow to school and be very, very cool. Pictures will be up on Ravelry soon.
I am also working on the Flower Child sweater by Norah Gaughan. I'm using Ella Rae bamboo yarn in a beautiful robin's egg blue. You learn one thing through many of her designs - how to make a beautiful and even seam. You get lots of practice.
I've also started on the Lily of the Valley scarf - not mine anymore but a gift for friends that I'm visiting in July and I need to make her husband, the priest, a scarf in black or variegated greys for him. I'm not too worried as I still have lots of time. Sure, lots of time.
The new fence is beautiful and the sheep are gradually going out into the new pasture and grazing. This morning with the rain they were lying down in the barn and looking wistfully out at the pasture, but they do not like to get wet. The stray barn cat, always the opportunist, was right in the middle of them and staying very warm. They seem to really like the cat. He twirls around their legs and they gently nibble at him.
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