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| This is natural light and not quite the true color But it's close! It's gorgeous and will make a sweater exactly like the one I'm now knitting. |
This is what it looks like at Knitpicks I will get a better color shot tomorrow when the sun is out. We are going to have more, we hope, rain!
And, here it is, plugged in from this morning in natural light on a full sunny day.
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| This color is a rich teal blue. The photos don't do it justice All make it either too light or too blue. It's not; it is Aegean. And, it's glorious. |
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| The new lemons |
In November we had marauders running through our neighborhood, and the lemons on our tree fell victim. They took about 100 lemons and you know that they sold them the next day or so at a farmer's market. Things are getting to be like a jungle out there. Even worse was when a friend had a catalytic converter stolen in the middle of the night off her ancient vehicle parked in the street. The tow truck driver consoled our friend by telling her that his own brother had the radiator taken that way, in the middle of the night, while the vehicle was parked next to his bedroom window in the DRIVEWAY.
This reminds me of the cartoon I once saw, where the African man was standing at the door of his hut with his son, who was leaving. He told the boy, "Be careful, my son, it's like a city out there!"
I bid you peace and no little thieves running around your jungle. hehe
Are people more desperate, less inhibited, or some combination of both? I notice ordinary rudeness seems more common too. Glad you finally have some lemons for yourself.
ReplyDeleteThank you ellen. We are going to be careful to pick all the lemons when they are ripe, rather than leave them on the tree. We had to BUY lemons for making Christmas Cookies. They cost a dollar a piece!
ReplyDeletePeople are very unhappy all over the country at the moment but I think this sort of thievery has it's roots in desperation which makes for boldness. Of course,in any case, it's still theft.
There are two problems. This city is very near a third world country that has been having a terrible war going on right at the border.
Because of that war, their economy is getting worse faster than ours here in San Diego County, where the newspaper ran an article over the weekend titled, "Working for Peanuts" about the shrinking of middle class jobs in this city and county.
I don't know, and don't want to think about, where all this is going.