All went
well, and here we are safely back.
The weather
was remarkable. We drove up on Thursday in steady rain. We drove back yesterday
in more, and worse – Catullus’ caeli furor aequinoctialis. Same again, today.
In between were sandwiched three days of September perfection.
We got our
little tree planted.
The man who
built its house had dug a good, deep hole, so it has plenty of weed-free
friable soil below and around it. My husband – wrongly – believes that you
shouldn’t include garden compost or well-rotted manure in a planting mixture as
it is “too rich” for a young plant. But I did at least carry up two
buckets-full of good soil from my vegetable garden. The old carpet was added to
suppress weeds.
On Saturday
I went to Pitlochry and met Helen and Archie off the Edinburgh
I guess if
you’re in a wheelchair you just don’t get off in Pitlochry.
Archie is
in good spirits. Clearly boarding-school scores something better than Tolerable on the Life-Experience scale, and some
aspects of it are even fun. I won’t see him again for a while – he’ll go home to Athens Athens
I
re-engaged with the Japanese shirt while we were there, but it’s slow work,
sock yarn in garter stitch. Should I bring it back here? Another successful
evening with the mitered jacket yesterday. It’s looking good.
Helen
C.K.S. has posted a
new blog entry. I’ve seen her
Navigator sweater before (links are in her post) but this time I can feel it
speaking to me. I like the idea of distressing it, too. Could I bear to knit
with cotton?
And she’s posted another terrific cat video.
Welcome back. I'm sure the poor little tree appreciated the better soil.
ReplyDeleteTrees need good soil but they also need to send out long, deep roots. Too much fertilizer on the surface leads to shallow root systems. So say the garden books I read long years ago. I hope the fence is tall enough to keep the critters away from the tree.
ReplyDeleteAll Seasons Cotton isn't all cotton; it's 60% cotton and 40% acrylic. I usually regard acrylic as the work of the devil but it works well here, makes the cotton soft to handle and very comfortable against the skin. You do have to wash it at 30 degrees instead of 40, and garments made from it expand widthways instead of getting longer, but it's a very nice yarn to work with and to wear. It's a favourite of mine. The colour is 239, Jacuzzi.
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