Honoré here: We've been so lucky. Today is easily as perfect if not more so than I blogged about yesterday. Norman and I spent from 10-ish to 1:30 out in the yard, pulling weeds. Though not on my agenda, I'm glad we did because the yard looks a sight better and that's saying something since neither of us has a green thumb or the slightest idea about weeding. As I often say: weeds are indigenous plants and flowers, which explains why they are so prodigious and persistent. Most of what we plant in our gardens are the true invaders. I think though that I need to call in a real gardener, maybe Margaret? for some advice. Bushes definitely need pruning - too late? wait til fall? and I'd love to have the likes of what seems to be a wild garden with an wonderful assortment of flowers and bushes, just growing. I imagine that requires a lot of work but the results would be spectacular. The other option is to turn the back into one big conctete patio...
So, since today is Friday seems that what is on my agenda is to a report out of my A-list. I've spent a lot of time during MSQT, thinking about what I want to accomplish over the next six months and how best to insure that I take action. One of my goals is to resume blogging more regularly...and I have a plan. I will reveal it as the month unfolds. I am slowly but certainly making progress, everyday, in those areas that I've identified as important and interesting to me. One area is decluttering and as Gail Blanke, author of Throw Out Fifty Things suggests, I've this week identified about 25 things (unfortunately, more than one item in the same category, e.g., books, only counts as one thing) I'm tossing or donating. But it's a start. And the trick for me is to take my time, or perhaps I should say, mete out my time. I have this habit of wanting to get things like decluttering done in one fell swoop, at the expense of everything else...then I wind up behind the eight-ball and disgusted because I've not accomplished other things on my list that I really want to do . This time, I'm taking a different approach. Somedays I will proceed with a definite game plan and other days, whatever the spirit moves me to do, like today. My goal is to strike a happy balance over the month.
Two weeks ago I began a new sweater class. Over the days, I've been knitting along, having to only tink one or two rows. The pattern isn't especially difficult but it does require concentration. I was making progress every day when bam!, last night I discovered I was off by one stitch (I hope that's the case). I toyed with tinking the row but was still unable to find the mistake. Instead, I called Pat and we commiserated and then I poured myself a glass of wine. I packed the sweater in my knitting basket and tomorrow when we meet again , I'll have Mary, our teacher, find where I got off track. She is really great at reading knitting and finding where a mistake occurred. One of these days I'd like to be able to do that. Perhaps I will...
Cheers~