Two hats

We have been preparing for this move for a long time. In September, we had to clear out the dresser in the front hall, and we didn't stop to think that maybe one day we would need all those woollies, now somewhere in a box, to keep us warm. 

But we did. Now it is mid-November, and although we have had nice weather, it is getting colder and we need our hats. (It snowed yesterday!)

I had one, a lovely hat made of fingering weight yarn on teeny tiny needles... and I left it on the subway one day. Argh, heartbreaking, and it was my own darn fault. 

So, I had to make another, pronto. Worsted weight, knit up in a few days. 

 I like its jaunty pointy top. 

Stephen also needed a new hat, and by chance I saw this pattern that is supposed to represent sand ripples. Stephen loves a good sand ripple, so that was a good choice. 

Real ripples are not parallel, and not straight, but we do what we can in knitting! 

I am also making a fall-leaf-coloured scarf, and I really want it to be done, but it is also quite fine yarn and the pattern I initially picked was super finicky so it was slow going. 

I have switched to something more plain for the middle of the scarf and it should be done soon. 

More and more leaves

The leaves continue to be quite excellent, but they are now falling fast. 

These two are from my next-door neighbour's tree.

My front yard with bright green periwinkle and gold and brown leaves, yellow daylily remains popping through. 

These almost white leaves leapt out at me on my travels the other day. Startling! 

Beautiful ripply edges. I think it must be this: Angel Wings! 

Back at home again, we have a couple of geranium leaves. Really, anything looks great with the sun shining. 

Today's chore involves more packing and going to an art opening tonight. That will be a nice break from the home front. 

 

Leaves for November

Well, it has been a while, and a lot has happened. 

We sold our house! We'll be moving to Vancouver mid-December, and we have spent weeks and months going through all the stuff in the house where we have lived for 29 years. So many books have gone to Little Free Libraries; bags and bags of clothing and other fabric have gone to charity; millions of extension cords, kid toys, miscellaneous kitchen stuff has gone to the curb. 

Our old Ikea couch and things were not suitable for showing off the house to its best advantage, so we got stagers in who beautified it all to heck. When we were young and foolish we imagined morning coffee on the deck outside the bedroom, but never managed to have one person go down to the kitchen, make the coffee, carry it up to the third floor... but you can see the stager had the same idea. The plant on the deck was at its red-leafy best for the week the house was on the market. The sign is from the nude beach in San Diego where we last visited in... 1992? 

During exactly the same week we had the house on the market, Stephen's mother was ill in Victoria, so he was out there juggling bedside visits with talks with the agent. She passed away the day the house sold. 

(It is nice to be blogging again! I should do this more often!)

The leaves have been lovely this fall. It has been warm, with the odd cool night, not too much rain. We have filled bags and bags with leaves, but they've been dry and golden instead of brown mush, as sometimes happens. 

I bought this pepper plant and it did not do very much earlier in the season, but now there are several of these bright yellow-green peppers. I have no idea how to determine when they are ripe. But they are very pretty, with their still-green leaves. 

I hope to continue with pictures of leaves for this month, and I'll get back on track with the cookbook series next year, or whenever I am settled enough to have a cookbook shelf again. 

I am also knitting. Perhaps I'll save that for another day, since I have quite a bit to show you.