Shifting Seasons

 

The weather is gradually changing, and I can finally feel a chill in the air, hinting of cold weather heading my way.  My comfort food eating is changing too, reflecting a shift towards cold weather vegetables.  Sweet potato soup, cranberry beans, roasted beets, roasted Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, and acorn squash.  A different category of comfort food, a little healthier than my first round of comfort food was, but comfort food nonetheless.   My knitting is comfort knitting as well. After struggling with a number of different projects, I started the Churchmouse 21 Color Slouch Hat, for the simple joy of knitting with all the colors and following a straightforward pattern.  This may be the beginning of a hat binge, who knows?    

 

 

 

Here are all the yarn bits, sitting on their little name tags: 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

And since I can't really manage all of those colors unless I'm at home, I started my Mary Rebecca sweater with the raspberry yarn I bought at Rhinebeck, because, why not?  

 

I finished setting up my craft room last weekend, although the yarn room needs some attention now.  But I think that will be an easy and enjoyable fix.   I may do that tomorrow, since I'm feeling pretty goal oriented at the moment.  I managed my first electrical repair today and I'm pretty excited about it.  My clothes dryer stopped working in August and I determined that it was actually a bad circuit in the circuit breaker panel, but since I love using the clothesline, I've made do and put off the repair.  I read about it on YouTube and although it seemed simple, I was still a bit nervous about doing it myself.  Finally, I realized that as long as I cut the power off completely, I should be safe, and if I wasn't successful, I could take another route.  So this morning, I took out the bad circuit, took it to the hardware store, brought it back and installed it, and it worked!  I now have a functioning clothes dryer! 

 

 

It was a beautiful day here today and even though I am still scared about our future and grieving for what could have been, I have to move on as best as I can.  So I took a picture of Gracie in front of the kitchen windows, with my cheerful yellow curtains and leaf mobile against the breathtakingly blue sky.

 

 

And I met my daughter for an hour or so to catch up and saw these lovely roses, still in bloom.

 

 

And I hung pink gingham curtains in my yarn room because I can.

 

 

This year has been a tough one for me and Tuesday did not make it any easier, but what else are we to do but keep trying to make every day a good one.  I hope you have taken care of yourself this week and continue to do so.  Go outside, hug a friend, make a cup of tea, take a warm bath, and be kind.  To yourself as well as others.  We are all we've got.  Peace be with us.