Down at the edge, round by the corner...

• It appears that Yes, is on tour again.  I noticed a full page ad in the Sunday Times.  It's seems so strange to see all these old bands on tour again, it's like I'm still in High School.  Along that vein, Richard Thompson will be heading up the Lowell Summer Music Series at the end of June and I don't suppose it surprises anyone reading this to hear that I'll be there. There's a whole lot of great music there this summer, but if I can only afford one or 2 it will be this one and likely John Hiatt (although the Indigo Girls and Lucinda Williams and Levon Helm and-and-and well, you get the idea). Hmm..all this thinking about those bands from the past has put , ELP's Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends... on endless loop in my brain. 
• I spent most of yesterday trying to shake the cold I got from Noah (and that's my plan for today as well). I woke up from a nap to discover the kids helping John mulch.  The pile you see in this picture is more or less the size you're looking at, as I snapped these pictures from the bedroom window towards the end of their working on it.  I got 3 yards of mulch dumped.  We have mulched the beds in front, on the side and in back...although I have determined a couple of more spots we could mulch I suspect we will be dumping the rest around the big rock in back of the house.  It does help keep down some of the growth there and looks nice from the kitchen.  Still, it's as though this pile grows again every night.   
• At some point I decided that I could be a couch potato outside as easily as inside and sat in the screen house with Em to read, listen to my knitting podcasts and knit.  Em was alarmed to hear me laugh periodically when listening to Lime and Violet.  it appears that mothers are not permitted to giggle and certainly not to laugh out loud in their backyard where "anyone could hear".  If she isn't careful and if the ELP ear worm persists she'll return home today to hear me singing "There behind the glass is a real blade of grass.  Be careful when you pass..move along, move along".  That'll show her!
• I wound up 3 more balls of the Flash for the not-Capri I am knitting.  I really like Knitting Pure and Simple's pattern for this cardigan and it's coming along nicely.  I am concerned about having enough and may make a trip to the warehouse this week to see if more of it is remaindered there.  I should have enough.  A friend suggests knitting the sleeves when I divide for them and then continuing on with the body (it's knit in one piece to the sleeves, top down) and that way, worst case scenario it's a little shorter than planned.  I think this may be the way to go.
• I made an amazing loaf of bread yesterday.  I used the European Peasant bread recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day (it uses rye, whole wheat and white flour) but added crushed walnuts and sunflower seeds.  Yum!  For dinner tonight I'm making Pecorino Chicken from Martha Stewart's, Everyday Food Magazine.  lately, this has been my go to magazine for cooking week day meals.  I rarely have a problem with the recipes and they are easy to adapt to my dietary needs.   

Right now though I am going to go back to sleep and will away this cold I have.

Comments

[Judy]

Nice stitch definition on the "not-Capri" I'm almost ready to start mine too. Take care of the cold. With all the rain it's a good week to hunker down and heal.