Gosh it's gotten cool here. I harvested the last cucumber on the plants, and with no more flowers, that was the last for the season. I ate it for lunch the next day. There are still tomatoes on the vine, but they are all quite green. We're supposed to have some warmer weather next week, so I'll leave them and hope they get a bit bigger. There are tons of Hungarian yellow peppers, although I've no idea if they are hot or not. There are Jalapeños left to harvest. There are also a lot of them, however they are quite short. The mystery pepper plant is all still green, but they are very long and slender, so I'm guessing some sort of hot chill pepper. I'll harvest them sometime soon. Other than that, there are only herbs left to harvest; parsley, basil and soup celery. I'm going to plant one bed with garlic this fall. Seed garlic should be in the feed store in a couple of weeks.
I got 100 g of lovely, deep pink roving from A. I spun it into singles and then decided that I was going to spin up more singles to ply it, in a different colour, since this was hand dyed and I couldn't match it. A gave me another 100g of the same fibres which I spun and dyed into a lovely soft grey. I plied them together, deciding to make a matching hat and mittens. I knit the mittens first, and then had to figure out how to make the hat fit the remaining bit of yarn. Finally, after knitting and ripping out hats 5 times, I knit up a sample on a new toy, an old, but lovely working knitting machine. I made a hat with just a few metres of yarn to spare!
The sky was quite moody on our last hike. It looked like rain clouds, but it didn't rain and a surprising amount of sunshine broke through the clouds. The river had a lot scummy stuff on it, which I've not noticed before. It was a very hot summer though, so that could have been the reason. There were a lot of dogs on the trails that day. I generally don't mind them running off leash, as I've only had 1 incident with an aggressive dog. However, a few owners have decided that they don't need to clean up after their pups, which sadly made for some areas where you had to watch where you stepped, rather than enjoy the scenery!
The Rudbekia or black eyed Susan's were pretty much past their peak blossoms. The large field of them was showing a lot of spent flowers and not very many blooms. On the home stretch of the trail, walking beside the river, I saw these pretty blooms. They look like they should be Rudbeckia but their petals are short and roundish. I looked it up though and it seems there is a related flower called the Brown eyed Susan and it looks like this! Pretty enough and nice that it was blooming when it seemed like only the golden rod and a few Queen Anne's Lace stragglers were left.
I gave away my LeClerc Fanny counterbalance loom to a friend. She's been looking for one locally but nothing in easy access has been for sale. The one that came through the guild went to another member. Since I'd not used it since I strained my shoulder weaving a couple of years ago, I felt it was time to pass it on. I got this loom with requirement to pass on another loom. I have given away a 36 in Mira jack loom, a tapestry loom, a 5 ft. triangle loom and a 15 inch new Dorothy. I think I have payed it forward enough. I gave all of these away without any requirements though, just to enjoy and use them. When my friend picked up the loom, she dropped off a couple of knitting machines she had in her garage. One which is a plastic bed and the other that she felt I'd enjoy more, was a metal machine. I've been playing with it and it's quire enjoyable. It's fast and has a fairly big learning curve like the sock machine. Really it's just practice and being willing to take off the tangles and figure out what you did wrong. I had a few of those.
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