having gotten many chores crossed off my list, it is time to have some fun! And I plan to look like this for the remainder of the day – except for the part when I go to Granny’s.   hope you’re having a great Friday too take some time to smell the flowers – how about some Sweet Woodruff aka Galium Odoratum?

[feet up photo via Yarnstorm]

Ladies & Gentlemen, will you please direct your attention to my back door?  What a lovely way to greet visitors!  What a darling vignette – how rustic, how charming! How does she do it?  She’s a regular Martha – that Ann is so lucky – always finding treasures on the side of the road!

Yes, it is.  It really is.  The shit milk box.  Would you care for a closer look?  The flowers are Nicotiana and the bright green vine is an Ipomoea batatas Margarita .  That’s right, I planted flowering tobacco.  I thought it only fitting that I plant my old, shitty habit in the box.

Admit it, all you nay sayers…  The box looks great.  And I swear to you – it doesn’t smell!  Doesn’t it make it even lovelier just knowing what it’s been through?  (if that’s true, then logic dictates that I’m a f*ing beauty queen!)

Today is a busy day.  This morning, I am teaching my knitting class (geez- haven’t posted a thing about the class – it’s great and I love it!) and then it’s off to take a girlfriend to lunch for a belated birthday celebration.

and like all great beauty queens everywhere, I must add world peace to my to-do list …. hmmmm, where to begin?  ~taps forehead~ ….oh, I know, I will promote world peace by taking shit and turning it into a thing of beauty …..oops!  I mean poo.

ps.  after you are done posting a comment about my lovely planter (and you know you want to), run on over to Cara’s, she’s selling her fabulous photos! get ’em while they’re hot!

let’s get back to happy thoughts …. although I do seem to get more comments when things get a bit ‘stinky’ around here ….

how about some knitting & flowers?

back to the stinky for a brief moment – although I didn’t mention it, I was itching to start another project even while in the midst of the BWA knitalong.  I was holding back from doing so just to make more progress on Halcyon. 

Well, my run in with the roadside shit box led to great feelings of righteous indignation and justifiable casting on.  Here are Whitby socks in the Mountain Colors that Anita sent.  I may be setting myself up for disappointment.

Everytime I knit patterns from this book, I find a problem.  Here is my problem with this particular pattern .  The deep cuff calls for a K2P2 rib, the sock pictured with this pattern does not look like it has a K2P2 rib. I don’t know what stitch pattern that looks like.  Actually I’ve had this problem for quite awhile.  A few months ago I cast on for these socks using some stash yarn when I asked Kathleen her opinion on the cuff situation,she thought it might be the difference in yarns.  I ended up ripping that sock back in disgust. 

I’m knitting these no matter what but would still like to hear from everyone about this …. put the same effort into this question as you did into the excrement!

The Daily Flower:  Solomon’s Seal or Polygonatum Odoratum.  (say that three times fast and you’ll feel like Hermione Granger) This is growing not too far from the bleeding heart – btw, I took a picture of the white bleeding heart that I mentioned yesterday.

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did anyone notice that?  one of the last comments on my really gross incident in ‘the dark side’ entry? 

someone left a comment saying they found my stupid site while they were looking for smurf pictures.

ironic, no?