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Spring knitting, apple cake & the prettiest view

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I started knitting the Dawn Singlet top and decided to make mine blue. This is another pattern by Sandnes Garn. It’s in the same booklet as the April top, which I finally finished some days ago. I love how my April top turned out, even if I’m still recuperating from all the work it took to make it. It was challenging to finish the sleeves and collar in one weekend, mostly because you are just repeating the same thing over and over, but I knew I had to push myself to finish it, or else the project would end up in a bag again with my other UFOs and not be picked up again for another six months or more. To keep myself entertained I watched a bunch of episodes of the Envidiosa/Envious series on Netflix. I had watched season one already, so it was fun to marathon knit and watch the show at the same time. Now that I think of it, I need to watch the final three episodes. It’s in Spanish and …

a fool-proof plum cake, a new audiobook, and my falcon’s shawl

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I love Marin in September. The mornings slowly get darker and the air crisper, but the afternoons are still warm. Late summer fruits and vegetables are also at their peak and their fall successors are getting ready to be harvested — just look at the grapes I spotted in my neighbor’s front yard on a recent walk! (It was so hard not to take one and try it. I didn’t. I couldn’t.) After admiring my neighbor’s gorgeous grapes, a couple more minutes into my walk, I saw a plum tree growing on the side of the road. This is the main road that leads to downtown. The tree was full of plums, and this time I couldn’t resist the urge to taste one. The tree was so full of fruit that the branches were hanging a bit low. This tree wasn’t planted in anyone’s yard, it was planted outside a fence on a hill that seemed like public land, at least that’s what I hoped! So I ignored the cars driving past me and what …

week 28: new f.o. and a delicious corn salad

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finished! ribbon-tied wool vest I finished knitting the baby top I started a few weeks ago and finally got it in the mail. Well, with a few hiccups. I’d been worried that I’d taken so long to knit it, that by now it wouldn’t fit. Babies grow so fast!  So, as soon as I finished it I ran out to buy a small envelope at the local pharmacy, looked up my niece’s mailing address as soon as I got back, and stuck one of my Elvis forever stamps on the front of the package. There. Ready to ship! Or, so I thought. I put the package outside on top of our mailbox to make sure the mail carrier would see it, but when I went out to check later, the package was still there. Oh, that’s right, it was Wednesday, we rarely get mail on this day, so the mailman probably drove past our house. The next day, the same thing happened, which annoyed me a bit. So right before five, I drove down to …