Check-In Post July 26th 2022

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.
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There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Made some more progress on the hedge and picked up leaves. If I wasn't doing that every day or two, the path would be buried under a thick layer of wet leaves by now. I'll be glad when the laurel is gone so I don't have the leaves to deal with. I'm tempted to pull off all the leaves I can reach.

[darkcedars]

How much do you have to do before the tree people can come in? That constant picking up, ugh.

[badly_knitted]

I don't really HAVE to do any of it, they're great guys and will work around anything that's in the way, I'm sure most people don't bother, but my garden is a mess, and I work on a section each year, trying to get it under control, so I picked this section to make things simpler for everyone. It needed doing so why not? Now I'm just continuing what I've started. Parts of the hedge are almost 10ft tall. Last year I cleared the ivy off the banking so I could get to the hedge, now I'm tackling the parts that are growing through the trees I want removing. Might as well.

Picking up the leaves isn't too bad, laurel leaves are big, about 4 inches long and 2 wide, and doing it every day means there aren't too many so it only takes about 5 minutes. I don't want the path going back to how it was, covered in rotting leaves, soil, roots... I've got it looking nice and I'd like to keep it that way.

[darkcedars]

ah, I thought you needed to meet a certain goal before they would come.

[badly_knitted]

No, I booked them a few weeks ago so they're due Friday. I got the quote earlier this year at the same time as I got a quote for pruning the apple tree and getting rid of a sapling. At the time, the guy said the rose that was growing through the juniper might pose a problem - I think he meant in terms of getting the tree down without harming the rose - but it's not an important rose, and there was way too much of it anyway, so I just cut the stems going into the tree and dragged the rose out. Problem solved *grins* It needed cutting back again anyway, I chopped half of it down a couple of years ago when I was having the big conifer removed.

[darkcedars]

Oh! Friday, great. Even though picking up the leaves isn't that bad, it's one less thing. Certainly sounds like the kind of rose that won't care you cut it back!

I've decided to cut off buds from the hybrid tea roses for the rest of the year. And maybe suppress next year's as well. I want especially the Peace rose to make more canes, and to see if the scrawniest little one will bounce back. So no spending energy on blooms.

[badly_knitted]

I'll be glad to get it done.

The rose is a completely out of control rambler. It will most likely survive.

Sounds a good plan to encourage more and sturdier growth.

[yarnofariadne]

Six rows on the scarf; a light day, but my brain is fried and I just needed something to do with my hands for a bit.

[badly_knitted]

Well done! That's the beauty of knitting, it's something to do that keeps your hands busy while your brain relaxes.

[darkcedars]

scarves are great for that. :)

[darkcedars]

Husband learned a lot and the first window has been fixed up and reglazed. I ended up being mostly support and clean up. Hopefully future ones go quicker (this was 3 days). I am mostly over covid but it's making even my regular chores a bit harder so adding extra stuff is difficult.

I've been working on the afghan. I am on the final skein! Today I worked on it a lot in between laundry loads.

[badly_knitted]

Congratulations on getting the first window done! How many more ate there to do?

Yay, final skein! You seem to have done this blanket so fast! Not surprising you're still feeling wiped out from covid. Hope you'll be fully recovered soon.

[darkcedars]

How many more....hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Well, two in just that room. 6 more on the rest of the floor. So, if he can do one per days off, 8 weeks. We did find a good place to get glass as well.

He did a good job, the window moves so easily now.

Covid helped with the blanket going fast, since I can't do my extra tasks I'm taking far more time to sit.

[badly_knitted]

That's... a lot of windows o_O Still, he sounds like you have it all planned =)

At least you got something out of catching covid then. A little silver lining.

[wiseheart]

Did a bit of crafting in front of the telly. The Holy Family felts are nearly done: Joseph has his beard (even though he looks like Rumcájsz, the Robber, from a Czech kiddie show), Mary is firmly stitched on and the Baby Jesus has a bit of hair on top of his head. Tomorrow I'll stitch on the bronze stars and the hangings and sew the front and back panels together - at least some of them. There's no hurry, after all.

[badly_knitted]

Well, no one knows exactly what Joseph looked like, so who knows?

Sounds like the decorations are coming along nicely.

[wiseheart]

Well, I'm quite sure he *didn't* look like Rumcájsz. ;))

[badly_knitted]

You're probably right.

[darkcedars]

Yes, no hurry, you are definitely ahead for a holiday piece!

[tielan]

Progress made sewing things together.

[badly_knitted]

It's already looking amazing!

[darkcedars]

That's great!

[wiseheart]

Oh, amazing!