If anyone finds some blogging mojo hanging out in the corner of their house or abandoned in a parking lot - please do pick it up and check the label to see if it belongs to me. Seems as though I’m not alone in my blog ennui though - it appears to be happening & talked about on other blogs recently. I’ve been pretty quiet just because there isn’t much going on around Chez Mousie worth blogging about.. with the exception of a recent early morning trip to pick blueberries. Munchkin and I were invited with the in-laws on a blueberry picking excursion to a family friend’s property where we spent a few hours picking numerous gallons of blueberries from bushes that were so large that Munchkin called them “blueberry trees”. We forgot a cooler though, so I wasn’t able to bring home any berries.. they’ll be frozen at MIL’s house until I can get to retrieving some at a later date and turning them into blueberry muffins when the weather cools down enough to use the oven.
As for knitting.. there’s some of that around here. Seems everything I’m knitting involves fingering weight yarn.. including this Dream Swatch headband made from the leftover yarn of my Avada Kedavra socks. I’m enjoying this pattern and its coming out really nice on size 5 needles.. its a good project to pick up & knit on when you have a few minutes between doing other things. My plan is basically to knit on it until I either get bored or I run out of yarn.. whichever comes first.
I’ve got the same 2 socks on the needles (Nanners & More Fun Than Cables) because its just too damned hot here to knit and I haven’t spun in so long that I’m not entirely sure that I remember HOW to do it or where the fiber that is on the wheel actually is. We are still trying to avoid running the AC for as long as possible but its only getting us to about 6pm before its 92F in the house - which is my limit for an indoor temperature. Between the heat and the lack of an actual workspace for my shop stuff.. I feel like I haven’t done anything creative this entire summer. I’m sort of hoping to have my Etsy shop back up and running come mid-August but right now I’m really not feeling that into anything I’ve previously sold. At this point I am trying to come up with some totally new things because I still feel like everyone and their brother are selling stitch markers on Etsy and the market is so flooded with them that no one is buying.
Also.. I just realized that Munchkin has only 2 weeks left of summer vacation. I’m going to go freak out now.