amazing what we got done in the studio

at least to me, i think we are moving the computer down as well.
i will miss my safe little spot by the stone wall but i think it may work out better if the computer is closer to my drafting table and easel.
it's also very green out
rained off and on over the weekend.. HARD rain at times.
 i took pictures!

i know, they are just through the windows but still i thought the rain and the light was pretty cool so i took all these pictures to remember the mists by and to show you guys. really i love summer days like this, not as a steady diet, and not with really bad storms but intermittent rain, and heavy mists. i also like sunlight so hot that it's black under thick tree leaves (what can i say, i am complicated and complex.....hahahahaha, na, actually i think it has to do with seeing light)

the ducks weren't happy with the rain. i didn't get the chickens out in it.....they aren't happy in really hot weather or in rain.
good thing we took the laundry in, just literally seconds before this downpour.
in some of the pictures you can see the 'new' duck pen, we'll most likely do a bit more work on it this year. it's only big enough for maybe 5 ducks but if we still have the mobile pens all the ducks and the chickens get out. then the back pen is goat/sheep/cow.....

in knitting news, well right now there isn't. i have to rip back again on the short rows for liliiflora, i don't know why i am having so much of a problem with it....but for some odd reason i am. if the next time i have issues, well then it's just going to be a stockinette short row section and i'll call it good.
either that or rip it back. and use 'archangel' for something else.......
and i am thinking batik is calling my name. along with a few others. liliiflora is taking too much time up now, and it isn't in the knitting of it.

in the garden, the cucumbers are sprouted, showing strong healthy growth. i will be putting in my pole beans next.
the rains are just in time for the peas to finish, i really do need to do a hoop house over some of the beds for next spring, or i won't ever get a tomato to finish ripening
i looked back a bit and our weather has been like this a few years now
going from COLD to HOT from flooding to drought....
then that freaken possum getting my hardening off seedlings .......well thank goodness for the leeks and onions etc. or i think i wouldn't have anything in the garden......

now in budgie news, we're trying to get them all back together in the one big flight cage. right now the big flight is right next to mrs. fezziwig and they are talking, somewhat. fezziwig is trying and so is captain cuttle but estella and emma are just not with the program.

oh and speaking of programs of sorts,
we broke our paper shredder so now we are going to see about finding a way to shred everything at once. turns out there are companies that do that! that will clean up a ton of space here as i have boxes of stuff that need shredding, (can you see how i broke the shredder? oye)
i didn't know there were actual companies that securely safely shred stuff, cool huh?
let's see what else?
oh i made my macaroni salad, the one i always make with the mix of veggies....that's a weird sort of red/orange/purple color.....it was wonderful.
we have a tradition here for that salad, every 'first time' of the year i make it
bernie walks by and gives me a hard time about how 'runny' the dressing is.....
i always tell him 'cause it's going to soak in...........'
he argues
and guess what?
it soaks in
and then it's wonderful.........
first mac salad of the year,.............yup it's wonderful
we had it with grilled chicken and sliced fresh beefsteak tomatoes

and icecream
life is good