Hot weather prep and more purple, also a new idea

 Here's where we are 

I went out walking early this morning, to beat the heat, and met a few parents hauling kids to the school bus stop, in varying moods. You can tell who's a morning person.

And my neighbors' flowers are in the purple mode, just now. Maybe Mary's right and it's purple season.

The last one is my front yard with purple vetch, blossoms still closed because it was early.  It's supposed to be a weed, but I love the foliage and don't pull it till it's spent.

Then pre-heat cooking, two quiches. I figured it's no more work than making one, so why not make two, I had plenty of eggs.

I used dandelion greens, bought for the purpose, and the rest of the mixed salad greens. I'd frozen the dandelion greens, and did my  labor saving way of not-chopping them. 

Just take the bag out of the freezer and bang it about a bit on the counter. It shatters into little flakes. This works for other leafy greens too, chard, kale. 

Three cheeses: mozzarella, Parmesan and sharp cheddar. 

Note the trusty Corning pie dishes, I really like them for this recipe. It's crustfree, and the slices are fairly thin, so they make good cold food.  The dishes have served me well for I dunamany years.

A slice or two followed by fresh strawberries was lunch. Pretty good.

I continued with the band, no need for a picture again, and I find I've started to learn to stay calm, in a slow no-rush rhythm, and the weaving shows it.  I'm learning the nature of this yarn, new to me, too.  

Every yarn has a nature, even commercial yarns and especially homespun yarns, and you get the hang of how they work by experience, so this is all happening all the time I'm working.  Texture and feel are at play. Anni Albers would approve. See, Boud, I told you!

I found a great young YouTube weaver

and tiny house person who is so inventive, a skilled spinner and weaver. And she was surprisingly using a craft loom, cheapish, with a kind of heddle I'd never seen, to create beautiful woolen bookmarks you really want to feel.

The heddle is  a simple wood block with slots, alternating deep and shallow, to change the shed just as a thredded heddle does. Except you warp the loom and then just click the heddle on and all the threads drop into their assigned slots. No threading. I have to investigate this. Maybe make one.

 She responded in minutes to my question about source -- the heddle came with the loom. I saw a couple of similar items on Etsy. Hm.  No, no, not another loom. First I'll see if I can improvise something with what I have. 

Happy day everyone, new ideas always pouring in, how to choose, so many ideas, so little time..

Every day please

Early morning and beanz and Garydemonium

Here's my view now the giant evergreen is gone. It's so much better.

Before, I could see part of the fence and the evergreen to the left. Everything else blotted out. 

And I finally, after years of not doing it, made a three bean salad. It's taken me this long to assemble the beans.

Natural art arrangement 

Now this is in the fridge ready for the 90plus degree heat we're expecting in the next couple of days. 

 I managed to get the new band mounted onto the loom. This is the hardest part, keeping the threads untwisted and under tension while wrapping them over and over the headpiece of the loom and installing it while keeping the warp threads secure at the other end, it needs three hands.

This morning I spied frogs in the pond. Here's a completely unconcerned one, studying me.

you lookin at me?

And I finished the first sock.

It was good I got all this done earlier because the afternoon which started with reading on the deck soon disintegrated into Gary's moving operations. 

A glass table I've been keeping for him being bubble wrapped by two relatives, the younger one the person I taught to make cordage, and her grandmother, old friend and future next-door neighbor. Gary provided plenty of bubble wrap..

Everybody brought their dog over, plus various other relatives carrying boxes of fragile stuff to the van.  Gary and grandson carried out the table to the truck.

Never a dull moment. They're lovely people, so I think all's well.

I seem to have a purple garden this year 

Happy day everyone! I have endless entertainment without leaving home.