We Didn’t Get Any

We didn't get any rain yesterday evening, so I'm going to have to wait a bit to see how my garden spot settles.  No matter.  It'll rain plenty before it's all over, and I've always said this will be a multi year project anyway.  

Even so, it turned out to be an absolutely gorgeous day today, and I've been able to keep my windows open all day to get some fresh air into this house.  The bad news is, my sparkly yarn hasn't arrived yet, so I haven't been able to work on my Christmas project while watching football.  I'm not worried, as sometimes the mail on Saturdays arrives relatively late in the day.  

In the meantime, I've finished another sailor hat. 

Yarn:  Hobby Lobby I Love This  Yarn

Colorway: Sunset

Pattern: Basic Beanie

Needles:  US 8

I haven't cast on another one yet, but I will soon.  I've already passed up the total number of hats I sent off for this year's Christmas At Sea, so I'm stoked about that. However, I did something some of you will consider to be unthinkable.  

Remember that set of yarn minis I'd bought at FFITS that I'd agonized so much over and finally cast on with?  Yeah, I ripped that whole thing out.  

Mine just wasn't turning out the way the sample hat I'd seen at FFITS looked, and I wasn't happy with it.  I think it's kind of a bummer that she didn't have a pattern for her hat, if she's going to have one on display.  Anyway, I think she was doubling the yarn, so that's what I'm going to try when I cast it back on.  For now, I cast on another one with the yarn I'd caked up a while back. 

Yarn: Euphora Knits

Colorway:  I don't know, the label is illegible.  It looks like KoHerKo River or KuHaKu River

Pattern:  Sockhead Hat, by Boho Knits

Needles:  US 2.5 or 3mm

In other news, my first bud has opened on my Christmas cactus!

Do you see that little branch to the lower right that looks dead?  Yeah, I thought it was, too, so I pulled it up with the intention of composting it.  But when I did, I saw that it still had a couple of little roots, so I put it into some water to see if it will come back. 

If it does, I'll re-plant it, and if it doesn't, it'll go into the compost as I'd originally intended.  

I was pleasantly surprised to see so many buds on this one, too. 

This poor baby has absolutely been through the wringer, and has somehow survived it all.    

The only other thing on my list that I managed to get done was to boil my sweet potatoes down. 

I wanted to go ahead and do it to see if I'd bought enough for both a casserole and a pie.  I still have to mash and measure them, but right now I'm waiting for them to cool.  If I don't have enough, I'll have time to go buy some more.   

While I was in the kitchen, I also cut up my celery.  

I tried to take an artsy-fartsy photo, but I'm not too sure how that worked out.  I miss having a DSLR camera, but that's another topic for another day. 

After I finished, I remembered reading somewhere that you can stick the remnants of your celery into the ground and it'll grow.  I don't know how true that is, but what could it hurt to try, and celery is part of the Trinity after all.  So, I took it out and stuck it into one of my garden beds. 

If it grows, great!  If it doesn't, I'll pull it up and put it into the compost.  

Speaking of, I've got three beds ready to be planted, 

 and I'm seriously considering doing just that.  

After tomorrow night's freeze, it's supposed to warm back up for at least a week.  Since my lemon balm is used to being outside in the planter anyway, if I'm careful not to disturb the roots too much, it ought to be OK.  Do you think so?  

Also, I have a sage plant I was going to put up into that corner bed, where the fence meets the house.  It's used to being outside as well.  I think I'm going to try it.    

Wish me luck.