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It's Hand Knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing Zingibers.


Zingiber socks
Free knitting pattern

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It's Hand Knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing socks that were made just for me. :)


Socks from Mutare Posts

Oversized

Sourdough Honey Wheat Bread--a traditional bread that requires kneading, rising, punching down, and rising.


Bread dough rising

I might have let the loaf rise a *tad* too long. I didn't factor in the oven spring.


Oversized

I was worried that the bread might have huge airholes or be dry on top, but neither was a problem. It toasts beautifully and takes the butter and apricot jam well.


Tasty toast

But when it came to putting the loaf away, it was too big for my normal bread container as well as just about every other container in the kitchen. The only one large enough was the bread flour canister. It won't be in here long.


Improvising

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It's Hand Knit Friday! What hand knits do you have on today?

I'm wearing bamboo/cotton socks.


Early Spring
Project details on Ravelry

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Cool Chocolate, $19.95USD
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4 oz braid of Superwash Blue Face Leicester Top hand painted in shades of pink, chocolate brown and natural.

Roses & Chocolate 1, $15.50USD
3-7/8 oz braid of Superwash Blue Face Leicester Top hand painted in shades of pink, chocolate brown and natural.

Love Me Baby, $17.00USD
4-1/4 oz braid of Superwash Blue Face Leicester Top hand painted in shades of magenta/purple, brown/yellow, green, and orange.

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4 oz braid of Superwash Blue Face Leicester Top hand painted in shades of red, black, violet, and blue.

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Fruit cocktail

We cut down a tree in our backyard a few years ago--a messy tree that didn't provide much of anything other than aggravation --and today was the day to put something in its place.

We went back to Los Altos Nursery and Tyler & Darryl helped us pick out the perfect tree, a Fruit Cocktail tree. No, for real, this tree is a 4-in-1: Gold Dust Peach, Blenheim Apricot, Independence Nectarine, and Santa Rosa Plum. Pretty cool huh?

It was interesting driving home with about 4' of the tree sticking out of the back of the truck, but we got it home safely.


Fruit Cocktail Tree

I hope it likes its new home.


Planted

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It's Hand Knit Friday. Let's see those hand knits!

I'm wearing


Tahoe Broadripple socks
Project details on Ravelry

A place in the sun

We've been talking for months about building a raised bed planter in the backyard and thanks to R, it actually happened.

Last month we had these delivered--


Pallet o'pavers

Once the first course was in and level, the stacking went pretty fast (easy for me to say since I didn't do much of it). There was some chiseling involved to get the last block of each round to fit. We're fortunate to build this over an existing sprinkler head.


Raised bed in progress


Raised bed in progress

R filled it with a mixture of mulch & soil and the heirloom tomatoes grown from seed (I'm so proud of that) went right in. These are Mikado Violettor from Wintersown.org.


Heirloom Tomatoes in their new home

The raised bed looks pretty small in the photo above, but here's the view from the other side.


There's room for more

I planted seeds last Wednesday night and the seedlings were poking up a few days later. The radish seedlings appeared in 3 days! We haven't seen any carrots yet. Slackers.


Radishes


Kale


Squash

Yesterday, a co-worker and I visited her husband's business, Los Altos Nursery. As we walked between the rows and rows of plants, fountains, and garden ornamentals, I realized how much I missed my neighborhood nursery that closed years ago. No doubt it was pushed out by the big box stores.

Darryl helped me pick out plants that would do well in late summer/early fall and I came home with these:


Vegetables and herbs from Los Altos Nursery
Clockwise from far left: Yolo Wonder Pepper, Organic Bunching Onions, Bright Lights Swiss Chard, French Tarragon.

Everything went into the ground last night.


LAN vegetables & herbs in their new home

We got a late start, but I'm sure we'll have plenty to harvest this year.


Raised bed garden