Another day too hot.  Too hot to do most anything except pond cendered activities.  I cooled off swimming laps and waded in to fill watering cans for all the thirsty planters, many times.  Everybody needed a drink.  It was too hot to concentrate on anything, even knitting.  Then I remembered the LUCET.

I bought the lucet last fall, or summer, I’d have to go back in my blog to find out.  All this time the lucet has been sitting on my desk, next to my mouse… long time.  Today, being as I needed something really simple, I picked it up and started to play.  I’ve got the hang of it.

Now, if I could figure out how to wrap a core fiber using it.  I know it can be done, just have to google some directions.

The sock continues to have adventures.  In a remarkably brave attempt (on the socks part) to join me in my weekend, damn it’s hot, let’s do things to stay cool activities; the sock and I went out in the kayak for a paddle.  The sock resisted the urge to cool itself by jumping into or trailing its yarn in the water.

I did not (resist).  We paddled to a lovely area of the pond where many old cedars stand as skeletons, places for birds to nest and ducks to hide.

After startling a trio of Mallards the sock decided to go ashore.. a stump could well be an island to a sock.. and catch the view.  Please note the sock’s life line still attached to the kayak.

A good time was had by all.  It is uncertain whether all this traipsing around with the sock has really increased productivity.  I suspect that it has not, but that it has upped the silliness photo ops.  Ahhh, the force of blogging. 
Later in the day, still in the interest of staying as cool as possible,

I cranked on the AC and plied up (using the extremely long draw method taught by Alden Amos several weeks ago) some wool / mohair I had waiting on bobbins.

Yesterday was perfect.  Perfect, perfect, perfect…!  C left in the morning to go watch his mom for a day or so and I left to drive half way across the state to do some fibery kinds of business.  The drive was awesome, both directions.  The sky blue and cloudless and the air, this time of year, everything smells sweet.   (This morning I got myself out early, 5:30, it’s supposed to be a HOT one. I made it down the front walk and I stopped dead in my tracks just to smell the air, it’s amazing!) You can hardly imagine what newly mown hay and blooming lupine smell like.  Back to yesterday.. I lunched alone (it was late and no one else was in the place) at a really wonderful place I hadn’t tried before.  I ate so much that when I finally got around to dinner, it was easy, just about me.. a shot of tequila, olives and cheese.  Afterwards, I grabbed my paddle and headed onto the pond.  The breeze was up, again… perfect!  I read, I knit, I planted a few pots of flowers and sat on the deck.  It was just the day I wanted and needed.  after the last week or so, I was ready for a ‘me’ day, a rare thing to come by.  Here are the pics:

  I really am enjoying this scarf pattern.  It’s perfect (there’s that word again, tired of it yet??) for handpainted yarn.  None of those long stripes.  Here they make sense.
And one of the gardens..

Time to go water the garden before it get’s too hot to wear my bug proofing long pants.  With any luck this will be the last day I need them, maybe the heat will kill off the bloodsuckers.