Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Vision

In between treating me like royalty on Sunday, Jon was busy all day working in the yard. As I think I've told you before, he's in charge of all things gardening and landscaping. I don't possess the skills to do these things. Last week I ventured out to the front garden to pull some weeds. I was joined soon afterward by Jon. He came out under the guise of smoothing over the spat which sent me to the garden. But it was really to make sure I wasn't pulling up anything which was meant to be there - again.

After dinner on Sunday he took me out to show me the latest project - the "East Side Beautification Project" Wow!

Now when I work on a knitting project and show it to someone, it's "something" even when it's in progress. Like "Look at the heel on this sock!" Sure, it's not a sock yet, but it is something!
I'm having a hard time putting this into knitting terms.

12 comments:

Chris said...

So, what exactly is going into that spot? And when did that big empty spot appear in your yard?!

Carole Knits said...

I guess the difference is that with knitting even something looks great. Sigh.

Cursing Mama said...

Wow! Thats Fantastic! He sure is talented! Did you mean to have that odd spot there?

(Using all the responses I get when I show off knitting)

kmkat said...

I think that might be the equivalent of a skein of gorgeous yarn that got incredibly tangled when the dog/cat/toddler/ got hold of it. Or maybe not. We can recognize gorgeous yarn even then it is incredibly tangled.

Miss T said...

Still. He's working on it. I wouldn't mind if he came over here to work on the North Side Beautification Project, which seems to be stalled.

Vicki Knitorious said...

Um. This is where I would demand a little sketch. Is that grass patch? It's spread, hm, rather sporadically. Surely, there's a plan!

Jeanne said...

Have faith. I'm sure there is a plan.

Michael kills stuff in my garden all the time. It really pisses me off.

mrspao said...

I bet there is seed involved :) And a plan!

Guinifer said...

I think it needs the loose ends woven in and a good blocking!

trek said...

I'm a little lost here. What is happening in the pictures?

Cathy-Cate said...

Looks like a swale to me!

If so, that is a good thing and necessary, and all will be revealed in the fullness of time.

Kind of like lace, which certainly does NOT look worth the knitting until the blocking time!

Sydney said...

A friend of mine used to come over here and pull up my alliums while we were standing around, thinking they were wild onions. :)

Maybe it's kind of like an unraveled sweater before you've had a chance to skein or ball it up again. Not that I've seen that a lot lately or anything.