First two pictures are the peafowl at the farm. The peacock has shed his beautiful tail, but his body is still beautiful :). The peahen is dutifully tending her chicks which are now way bigger at somewhere around 3 months old. Now that it’s not breeding season my son says the peacock “less of a jerk” lol.

My son is having fun designing hats and scarfs for his farm store on his flat bed knitting machines. He has 2 electronic machines and I believe a ribber, several punch card machines, a bulky machine with a ribber and a computerized machine (that runs by itself, that one is cool as heck!) with a ribber. They are how, after a long day of mental tasking at his 8 to 5 job, his farm work and teaching how to knit on the flat bed knitting machines, he relaxes with the knitting machines and in the winter will do some quilting again. The magic of fiber arts for mental relaxation is amazing! He has an amazing spouse that helps him with the farm work and whatever else he needs :).

Last picture is my finished baby blanket, The Brick Work Baby Blanket by Gena Shaffer. Took a while to knit, with my off and on schedule to work on it, but it’s done and in the hands of the mom for her baby :).

Hope everyone is doing well with our crazy Nor’ Easter weather on the east coast, Hurricane on the west coast and all the rain that will be bringing from Texas up! Our farmers are waiting for it to dry up enough to harvest the corn and soybeans, but they might be waiting a while yet :(. Stay well!!!

This is for all my knitting friends, we chose the right thing to do with our spare time or maybe when we knit instead of doing other things sometimes, like the dishes or vacuuming :P.

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 not 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!

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!!!!