Tra La! It's May!

Tra la, it's May, the lusty Month of May

That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray.

Tra la, it's here, that shocking time of year

When tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear!

(Lyrics from Lerner and Loewe's Camelot)

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Where I live, the arrival of May means summer is here.
Six months of summer and six months of not summer.
Although the "not" summer seems to be getting shorter.

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Did you know the month of May is named for the Roman goddess Maia,
who oversaw the growth of plants?
Also from the Latin word maiores, "elders," who were celebrated during this month.

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Amaryllis is blooming in Musashi's garden.

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My 50th high school reunion is this year.
THUD!

Here I am --

If I remember correctly, the senior pix were taken the end of the junior year.
Thus the short hair (look at all that teased hair).
Yes, I have my eyes closed  -- the sun is bright in New Mexico.

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It's no secret that I enjoy shopping (especially window shopping) at Sur La Table.
This is what I found in their latest email.

Too cute!


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I decided I needed to clean out my yarn closet.

I would open the door and wonder what would fall out next!

My habit when I'm working on a project,

knit, crochet, counted cross stitch -- whatever --

is to put all the supplies in a tote bag with the project.

A girl can never have too many tote bags.

So in goes the pattern, yarn, needles, hooks -- everything to get the project done.

And when I finish, I tend to leave everything in the tote bag.

So, cleaning out the yarn closet meant I went through all the tote bags to see what was there ... mostly patterns and hooks/needles.

One of the totes had two balls of a washable acrylic, nylon yarn in a wonderful teal with dark  blue specks, a circular needle and several scarf patterns.
I like to use a circular needle on small projects.

 One of my all time favorite stash busting patterns from Knit Picks was included.

I must have decided to try to get a scarf from the two small balls of yarn.

Well, it worked!

Here's the finished product.

I cut the pattern (Diagonal Garter Stitch Scarf) from the Knit Picks catalog 
(back when they sent catalogs by mail).

It's very simple -- Cast on 22 stitches (or your choice).

RS: Knit into front and back of first st, knit across to last 2 sts, K2tog.

WS: Knit

Repeat these two rows until scarf is desired length and bind off loosely.

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Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Five On Friday

Willy Nilly Friday

Mosaic Monday

Monday Social

Craft On

I Almost Cried

I was so excited.

One of the vendors at the Farmer's Market said they had peaches.

I started dreaming of peach pie,

peach smoothies,

PEACHES!

I could hardly wait for Saturday to come around.

They weren't there!

No peaches!

I almost cried.

Yesterday I had to go to Fresh Market to pick up a few things.

It was also cleaning day, so I thought I might pick up a sandwich --

cleaning day means no cooking day.

What did I find?

Peaches!

They were a little small and hard, but boy did they smell good.

So I got a few ... 

And this morning I had the first smoothie of the peach season.

YUM!

YeeHaw!!

Wishing YOU well and much joy.

Thanks to Kim for hosting:

Saying Goodbye to Summer

Most of you are saying goodbye to summer.

I said goodbye to UGHust and am now welcoming sizzling, stuffy September. 

When I think of summer, I think of beaches and sea shells ... like this one. 

I'm joining Nancy for The Tuesday Muse.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Summer Time

Reproduction postcard: Wading Pond at City Park, Houston (now Sam Houston Park), 1907

the end of summer

flying by, where has it gone

it is TOO darn hot

Reproduction postcard: The Breakers Bath House, Galveston, 1911

A big thank you to our hostesses:

Beth for Postcard Friendship Friday

and

Rebecca for Haiku My Heart

Wishing YOU well and a joy filled weekend.

Summertime!

The first official day of summer is next Tuesday.

We've been setting record high temps in three digits since the

beginning of the month.

I'm tired of summer already!

But

I never tire of watermelon!

For me, watermelon and summer go together.

I searched on Flickr and found some wonderful watermelon images.

Here are just a few:

Flickr Images

1. watermelon, 2. Watermelon, 3. watermelon gazpacho prep, 

4. ~ Watermelon jelly ~, 5. Watermelon lemonade with a hint of raspberry for Munchn'Crunch, 

6. Watermelon Cupcake, 7. watermelon, 8. WATERMELON CAKE, 9. Watermelon Bowl

Happy Fathers Day.

Celebrate!

Wishing YOU well and a joy filled week! 

Thank you to our hostesses:

Mary for Mosaic Monday

and 

The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday.

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Don't forget to check out my blogoversary give-a-way here.

Funky Fun

I have been playing with a journal page. The stamps around the edges are from an Inkadinkado Stamp Set called Scrollworks. This was part of my birthday sack from Mar and I wanted to try them out on something so around the edge they went. The center of each page -- no rhyme or reason -- just continuing the black. Then I added the *cool* parts -- ice, watermelon, drink, man relaxing. I've thought about adding the words -- across both pages -- TOO BLOOMIN HOT -- but I think that message is already there -- unwritten!

Then I went to BeFunky (thank you Kim) and played around with the pages.
Here are my favorites.

That's it.

Some Funky Fun

Enjoy your day.