Felt Like Knitting

Farmers market goodies

There have been some farmers markets springing up around here lately.  Since my own garden isn't yet producing much and since Carole is really inspiring with her CSA posts, I decided to try out one of the markets.  It was a really fun experience that I hope to repeat soon!

            

Local honey, soap containing Dead Sea mud, peaches, zucchini (different from the variety I'm used to), arugula, cucumbers, squash, and beets.  It's all been delicious!  Here's what we tried first...

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I don't remember ever making rolled biscuits before.  When I do occasionally make biscuits, they're always drop biscuits because I get lazy.  Making these biscuits really was a pretty easy process.  They were tasty, but I doubt I'd win any prizes for them! 

Yes, there has been knitting

                  

In my last post I mentioned that I had been knitting some dishcloths.  These are most of the cloths I've knit recently.  Some are already in use and weren't clean for the photo shoot.  All but the white ones will be gifts.  Details are on Ravelry.

Here is one of my favorites:

             

This is the Playful Plaid Clothand it's a lot of fun to knit.  The long slipped stitches you see were made by wrapping the needle twice.  When I knit it the next time, I'll probably wrap the needle three times because the cloth was kind of puckery before I blocked it.

Right now I'm knitting a round dishcloth, which I haven't done before.  It's a quick knit and I could have had it mostly done already, but I couldn't figure out where I was off and I reknitted a section at least three times.  There are some really pretty cloths on Ravelry.

Have lap, will sit

You know it's been a long time since you've posted when Typepad has changed the layout of the posting page!  I guess I've been in a bit of a blogging, knitting, emailing funk lately.  I've only been able to muster up enough knitting energy to knit dishcloths...lots of dishcloths.  Pictures of those to come...

Most of my energy lately has gone into adopting our dog.  I didn't realize how much of an emotional toll the process would take.  I have a greater appreciate for people who have been/are involved in the adoption process for children!  (I'm not saying that adopting a pet is anything like adopting a child.  But this experience has given me a glimpse into the waiting/hoping/disappointment/joy...)

And now, without further ado, I present Trump!

               

                                               "Go ahead, make my day."

Trump really is the sweetest boy, he's just tired in this picture.  :)  His favorite thing to do is to crawl up into my lap if I'm sitting.  I'm not kidding - I'm getting nothing done around here!  But that's okay.  He has some issues with fearfulness and if he feels comfortable on my lap, then I'm happy about it.  I was afraid he wouldn't come to any of us, but he's doing fine.

The only issue we're having is that he refuses to go to the bathroom.  He's not used to being on a leash, so we bought an exercise pen to put outside.  He walks around it inside once then lies down.  We got him on Saturday morning and he finally went (...on the dining room rug!!!  He's a quick one apparently, because we were watching him like a hawk.) sometime on Sunday afternoon.  And he hasn't gone since.  Do you have any tips? 

ETA:  I think we've made some progress.  It never dawned on me that Trump's harness could also be causing him some stress.  He wanted out of his crate tonight after he went to bed and he was roaming around without his harness - totally different dog.  I took him back out to his pen (with no harness) and he peed a river.  I should have left him out there longer because he decided to poop on the rug while we were playing with his toy.  Progress is good!