Life in the Country

   Life in the country's been mostly good this week.  We've cut and stacked wood...there's a lot more to do...visited the health center, auto center, and grocery store.  The weather's sweet and what's left of the garden...carrots, green beans, green peppers and yellow squash...are doing nicely.  
                  

The greenhouse is doing even better!  Here are the tomatoes and peppers, and there are potatoes, beans and eggplants in there, too! It's about about 10 degrees warmer inside the greenhouse than outside...and there isn't a heater!
  
   Jeff finally got the trailer hitch installed on the Outback today. It's been 6 weeks since this process started. (He's not too happy about that.)  This week he was told the hitch we have...it was on the Forrester...won't fit the Outback.  Since that was the 1st question he asked...before asking that the hitch be taken off the Forrester...and was told it would...he wasn't happy.  On top of that, they ordered the new hitch without asking him if that would be ok.  The assistant manager cut us a good deal ($234/no labor) but we've talked about it and decided this would be the last job Mavis/Cole did on our cars. 
There's still a lot of wood, compost, and manure we need to haul...that should have been done already!!
   In the meantime, I'm knitting happily.  I finished my 2nd Christmas set, called Snowflakes.  It's

a size 1 circular skirt and short sleeve sweater set in soft navy and white, decorated with a large duplicate stitch snowflake and small snowflake buttons.  (I didn't knit in the snowflakes because
the sweater is done in the round on a circular needle and it would mean loose ends each row on both sides of each snowflake...what a mess to clean up!)  I want to do a matching cardigan and hat with all the snowflakes worked in. OTN:  this week's project list is hats...and more hats!  I'd like to do at least 3 flower hats, 3 pumpkin, 3 apple and 3 baseball hats...by next Thursday...when I'm scheduled to work in the shop again.  And if I get the hats done before then,

Got 6 Flower and 6 Pumpkin Hats finished! posted 9/29/14

maybe I'll do that snowflake cardigan!  In the meantime, it's back to stacking wood!