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
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
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.
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
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
See a time-lapse of Elsa's rose painting on her new YouTube channel: Handmaiden Elsa
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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)
