Got in my ten minutes of knitting this AM-updated with photos .. again..

Blogger did a snatch and grab, so I grabbed back my photos. So this is really the updated version.

Being as it has turned so HOT here, the ten minutes of knitting time has to be in the early morning, so it's done. M/B is up to row 29 and almost ready for it's photo shoot.

Now to tear through the plants in the patio and viciously get rid of a few sad ones. They have to go. I've divided that Dallas fern so many times that I just have too many of them. I'm down to two, and one of them has to go. And the impudent opuntia cactus that's been growing unmolested along the back of the paver floor to the patio is to be ousted, too.

It actually grows greener and better in the shade than it's siblings on the hill. I think it's got something to do with the clay/rock layer (caliche) it's growing in, and the water seep created by it. Our neighbor waters a lot and it gets down to our yard at times. This cactus loves it's pampered place. Well, it's too dangerous to have there and there's no where else I want it. I love the other kind, Opuntia Robusta, which has huge round pads anyway. And yes, the pads are edible on the first variety, but it takes a huge cactus to produce enough for me. They taste like asparagus. I par-boil them, cut into strips, and then fry them. Yummy!




And, this above lovely book came yesterday...and another will come soon. Got them, used, so that there will be one for me and one for DD, so we can improve our yarn together, get spinning again and stay on the same page after our visit.

And a month or so ago, practicing retail therapy, I bought the yarn and the Vogue Knitting issue from Elann for the top featured in this photo.



Alzzooo, I finished, The Dance Hall of The Dead by Tony Hillerman, second time reading, and just started Thai Die, by Monica Ferris. That one took a long time to get hands on at the local "Public Readery". It's the latest in the series. I say Public, because so many people hang out at the local B&N that it's not possible to get a comfy chair in there anymore. I need to bring a lawn chair, eh?