Mellow Yellow Monday

It's Mellow Yellow Monday!  Our surprise rainy weekend - after weeks and weeks of sun - made the garden mostly happy.

This sunflower is one of our many volunteers from our bird feeders.  She stands guard over the spaghetti squash leaves on their rampant vines.

A sunflower in the rain is not very happy.  She droops her head heavily and waits for the sun to come back. 

For more yellow on a Monday morning, visit with Drowsey Monkey right here.  She kindly keeps this meme going for all of us to enjoy.

Sunday wonders - T

T is for turmoil. 

Beware the desire to renovate.  This is what happens.  We've decided to put a hardwood floor in the room where the computers live.  This is probably the most used room in the house and had the most 'stuff in it.  Bookshelves, cupboards, desks with lots of drawers - all had to move out.  To somewhere else.  Anywhere else.  Then the carpet had to be taken up.  The baseboards removed.  And the walls will be repainted this week.  The desks will walk back and forth attached to their life-giving wall sockets with the hope that we can stay connected during the upgrade.

Next Saturday, the new floor goes down.  And normality will return.  A bit tidier and no dust. 

Selfish

It's Saturday and it's raining.  I know that it's not happy for the campers but I'm not camping.  Our gardens need the rain and it's a reprieve from having to water.  It may also help to wash away the smoke from the forest fires.

It's a good day to stay inside and get some neglected chores done.  Or I could just to sit here and list all the reasons why I'll never be a knitting designer:

1. I only want to please myself.  My gd was less than impressed with this (unfinished) cardi for her.  Even when I told her it would have buttons on the points.  It's 'too small' because it has 3/4 sleeves and only comes to her waist.  I sort of knew her opinions before I started, too.  How slow a learner am I?  I also hope I'm over this point obsession.

2.  I'm too lazy to write down the pattern directions for stuff I think up. I had only limited success sharing my 'two-at-once baby socks with Deb because I couldn't remember my pattern.  If I'm going to teach anybody, I had better write it down.

3.  There's so many very nice patterns that others have designed that I want to knit.  This T-top  has taken forever because I was working on Project Yarnway designs.  I'm taking the summer off from that and trying to concentrate on finishing what I've started. 

 Not too many reasons but each one is a deal-breaker. 

Time to get some of those chores done now. 
 

Don't fence me in!

 Some things just don't like to be told what to do.

This is a maturing spaghetti squash and it's already the size of a football.  If you have ever grown any of the squash family then you know how they can just get away from you. 

One minute they are doing as you expect and the next, well, they're off to seek new and bolder adventures. The vines were supposed to grow on the cages and supports.  They did that for a while but then got restless.

It was hard to get this one to sit still for a photo it was so busy sending out it's fast-growing vines.  Wonderful curling tendrils have grasped onto the grass - and weeds - with a death grip. 

It's hard to get a sense of scale but the parts outside the box are longer than what's in.  At least 6 feet and growing along the grass.  There's a  new little squash every few inches.  Good thing I love spaghetti squash.  Hope our neighbors do, too.