Helped my son at his Alpaca farm today. These are the two oldest ladies at the farm, they will be 20 years old next month. The one in front is Nebula and the one behind her is Summit. 🙂
All the baby squirrels are running around at the farm, I thought this might be their mom watching out where they are all running too, lol. Glad the weather is much nicer 70’s and overcast, tomorrow more of the same, then back into the lower to mid 80’s, but at least no 90’s!!!
Well, we got a little hotter than 110F with the heat index (feels like) they predicted. We were 94F on Sunday and Monday but the feel like (heat index) hit 114 on Sunday and 116 on Monday, both were at 6 PM, the dew point and humidity makes it HOT, HOT, HOT!! Feels hot today but it was only at its highest 89F, feels like 95F, so a bit cooler but still hot :P, very grateful for air conditioning!
Well, this is not the first one we have had this summer, it started in late spring, sigh. But it continues on with a week of break here and there. Glad the Europeans who came to the FIFA games understand why we have air conditioning and I’m very glad we do!!! Church tomorrow should be interesting, I always bring a cloth fan because sometimes it’s still warm even with the air conditioning on, so I should be fine, I’ll just be fanning away :). We use to have mall alerts when it was got up into the 90’s (before that big inside mall closed) so the elderly and mothers to be or mothers with children and no air conditioning could go sit at the mall until evening when it cooled down a bit. If Willis Carrier, who invented the air conditioner in 1902, was still alive, I’d give him a big hug! Fall weather is only a couple of months to come because with an El Niño weather pattern, we could have summer into or through September, sigh. Everyone who is in this heat wave, please stay safe.
Not much, but the kids will have to walk to school in the dark, this is the darkest times around the middle to end of December on Spring Forward if it’s all year. Yeah there are still children who have to walk to school. I’m for permanent standard time, the extra 30 to 45 min at night isn’t enough to put a child’s life at risk as far as I’m concerned. Move south where it’s lighter later, or wait 2 or 3 months and you’ll get your later daylight at night, it happens every year! I know I won’t win many friends with my stance and you are welcome to your own opinion, but I stand by this, standard time is better for our health, and I say this as someone who has SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), there are special lights you can buy that help with that :). If this passes, I’ll be talking to my State legislators to have them opt out of permanent spring forward.
Seems these hot temps are every other week at the moment, it continues this week but next week is back into the 80’s! If it weren’t for the humidity I could handle it with just fans, but, thank goodness for air conditioning!!!!
I forgot to share my knitter tee shirt. I custom ordered a spinner tee shirt to match :). I got these on Etsy at from the Grape Apparel shop. The tees are nice and they made the spinner tee exactly as I requested :). I think tho I should have ordered in a lighter color so the darker colors showed up a little better, but that was my mistake not theirs. The knitter tee is not dirty, my camera sucks!
I am putting this up one day early, and as we celebrate the USA’s 250th Birthday, we need to remember that we could lose all of this freedom, that our Founders began with the Savior’s help, to create a free nation so we could worship Him according to His will. We can choose to let this go, or we can work to keep it. Keep on your representatives to remind them that we voted for them to keep us free and safe, and to do their jobs or our votes will go elsewhere next election!
The Bishop in my church, reminded us “we have been invited by the First Presidency (the leadership in our Church) to unite together in fasting and prayer this Sunday, “to express gratitude for religious liberty and to pray that it be strengthened throughout the world.” As you celebrate our country’s 250th birthday this weekend, I invite you take a moment to ponder on the great freedoms that we enjoy and how those freedoms have made it possible for Christ’s church to be restored to the earth, and to continue to grow throughout the world. I am grateful to those who serve and who have served our country, and for those that have given their lives, in exchange for the liberties and freedoms that we are so blessed with.”
Yep!
My Work In Progress is the Brick Work Baby Blanket by Gena Shaffer, a free pattern on Ravelry. It’s not one you can just knit without thinking a little bit, but it’s not hard, just gotta keep track of the rows. I figure I’m about 1/3 of the way done.
We are having a heat wave in June right now!! With the heat index today, we were about 92 and tomorrow they are saying with the heat index about 98. This is usually our late July/August weather. I’m not ready!!! But they are saying on Thursday we will be back in the 80’s and by the weekend in the mid 70’s, whew! I see many are having this problem, you all stay safe!!
The first picture is Apollo at about 7 weeks old, so cute. The second picture is right after his shearing this last Monday, he’s 8 months old, amazing how fast they grow. I wish I had a picture just before his shearing, he was sooo much fluff!!! What a difference after the shearing! Once all their fluffy fiber is gone you can see how they look under all that fiber and how long their necks are, look at those fluffy ears!!! He’s a sweetie though, a defluffed sweetie but a sweetie nevertheless. He also is a medium fawn color now instead of the light fawn his beginning fiber was. So many bags of fiber to skirt from shearing day!
LDSVenus-knits 