2022 Recap: August through October

AUGUST included:

Garden Bouquets

Including many bouquets Mom made for a cousin's wedding reception

Garden Veggies

Our Annual Ice-Cream Visit to Sandridge Gardens



A Day at the Lake

Aerial views of the gardens from the lift rented for house projects

Deconstructing the moldy porch between floor joists and ceiling

Stripping the original cedar siding from our 1976 house



Removing buffalo board to add more insulation

And thankfully the chance to track down and remove more moldy boards we could smell from indoors

In the middle of demolition, reconstruction began.

So lovely to be able to use our "porch" again!



Peak Insulation returned to spray the outside of the house with their low-VOC product.

And our carpenters returned to seal the house back up.

Before the house could be re-sided, Dad tackled the re-setting of our front brick patio.

August ended with our annual garden-picnic!





SEPTEMBER included:

My clean-up after the tree trimming done from the rented lift



A last visit to the lake for Labor Day

More re-construction

Dad sealing every crack against moisture

Washing the wool sweater I would soon need to wear again

And washing up our home-raised, mill-spun wool ...

...to start knitting another Norwegian kofte.

Late-summer garden

Ongoing Kale Harvest

Some of which I dried for green powder

Trying to get to watercolors at least once a month

OCTOBER included:

Restocking the wool yarn we use for the Etsy shop: TheNauticalNordic

An Autumn drive for a walk and picnic in the woods

...which inspired my October watercolor sketch

Autumn Roses

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Potato Harvest

First snow on October 14th

Sweater knitting on the weekends... and ripping out all this oversized body

Elsa's and my first time to Maren's house since March, where we helped photograph a 10 month old...

Walked and played outside...

And looked up Narwhals in the Encyclopedia (books which this newly-3-year-old has declared to be "fantastit"!)

A large crop of lettuce made it through hard frosts under layers of blankets and tarps.

And the month ended with a special birthday

... which was marked by a special, gluten-free birthday cake! (for those who eat dairy and sugar)