-.. but hey look, a squirrel (chipmunk, groundhog, rabbit, hummingbird, blue jay, other crafts, car issues, gardening etc.etc.) Excluding knitting this month has been unexpectedly productive as I have made a dress for me, a shirt for my husband, cut out a pair of shorts and a jacket for me too. The first sock was finished on June 12th and I got the second one cast on pretty soon after that but then, as I said, I got distracted.
Near the start of the month I went to Florida for work - that is when I got the first sock completed and thought I was doing well with plenty of time to get the second done by the end of June. But life had other ideas: our elder son came home for Father's Day weekend with us during which he was going to change the rear suspension strut in his car but it turned out he had a shock not a strut so borrowed our main car for the week and ordered the correct part, which UPS promptly lost in transit, so our trip to the Pittsburgh area last weekend did not involve swapping cars back over as expected. Nevertheless we did get together with elder son for his dad/my husband's birthday together with some friends we hadn't been over to see since before Christmas! As my car has an oil leak (part now in hand to fix that) we rented a car from Avis and I also had an upgrade code, so my husband came home last Friday in a Camaro for the weekend which he had lots of fun driving, but we both decided we would not want one for our daily driver. While at the western end of the state I dropped of my Orca Bay quilt for edge-to-edge quilting with Sheila from Longarm Love, so we managed to get quite a lot packed into the weekend. Normally I would knit in the car on this sort of journey but the ride in the rental was not conducive for me to do that this time without suffering from motion sickness.
This week the (replacement) right part arrived and the suspension is now fixed ready for elder son to come home for the holiday weekend and after that the correct vehicles will be in the correct places, but fingers crossed that the new seals and gasket sort out my Mini's fluid retention (or lack thereof) problem.
Our plants are doing well in the hydroponics system and we have baby peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers getting bigger each day now. The basil plants still need to go in or there will be no fresh pesto this summer...
Oh that second sock? Well I woke up today realising it was the last day of the month and I needed to get a move on with the foot and the toe, so in between washing and hanging out to dry my two big duvets, and being distracted by the tennis at Wimbledon, I got it done today! My One Monthly Goal for June has been achieved and I am inordinately pleased that my stripes match so well.
