First Summer Friday is a rainy one in my neighborhood… but that is okay, we need the rain and it smells so good outside! My tomatoes are growing by leaps and bounds and they are all loaded with tomato blossoms! I hope this means an abundant year of tomatoes… my fingers are crossed!
But how about a bit of a RIFF to ease into Friday…
Reconstructing —
I began the cosmetic knitting on poor Gnifty this week. A new nose and a bit of a beard have been knit and are awaiting attachment. And I have begun bird knitting! I am using those tweed mini skeins I got from Fibernymph Dye Works with this years Pi yarn! Tweed yarn makes for some cute birds! Ha! And, Vera will be excited to hear that there will be a crow!
In (search of) —
June has been full… but it has also been empty. Empty as in Monday is our “check in” with what we did with our word this month… and I have…nothing. Not one singe thing. So… my challenge will be to pull *something* together so that I can give an update… of all that I did not do this month. LOL
Oh… and then there is a certain summer painting class that I have not done one single thing for. This morning I sat down and hashed out a plan to attack those 6 lessons and get myself back on track.
(neighborly) Frustration —
This week our neighbor chopped down all their bushes (which provide a “fence” on the east side of our back yard). And I mean chopped… as in to the ground… sigh. So this morning we are heading off to a plant nursery to see what we can find to plant in our yard to compensate for all that.
(more neighborly) Frustrations —
It is summertime… and that is very evident in the volume of vehicles parked at our neighbors across the street. They have 4 kids of varying young adult ages that all live at home… yes, all.still.at.home. And it seems they all have a plethora of friends who all have cars *and like to spend the night* and that volume of cars is making it challenging for Steve to get out of the driveway for work each morning. I am waiting for the morning that I hear a huge crunch when he hits one of those cars… accidentally or on purpose… oy.
And with that… let’s get this weekend started!
See you all back here on Monday with something about my word!
A CROW!!! I cannot wait to see. And Gnifty is getting a nose job – LOL (I remember in my youth that nose jobs were very popular among a certain segment of the high school population). Glad you are getting your needed rain and I sure wish ours would come. The forecast has been for rainy days, but so far just a sprinkle or two. Sorry about the neighborly frustrations…unfortunately I can relate to both…here’s to a successful trip to the nursery and a wonderful weekend…of catching up.
I am anxiously awaiting the results of Gnifty’s makeover. A new nose and fiddly birds sound wonderful! Neighborly frustrations are awful. We have the best neighbors on one side and one who likes to smoke a lot of pot outdoors on the other side. But the high neighbor is far better than ones who chop down hedges and block driveways. Good luck!
Ah, neighbors! We are lucky that our neighborhood is quiet and mostly normal. I would be sad to see bushes that acted like a fence being chopped down, ugh. Interesting that all those adult kids live there and their friends are there, don’t they work?
Is there some kind of ordinance that would prohibit all those cars for one house? Invoking it, of course, may lead to bad relations with the neighbors.
Ah, so Gnifty has a deviated septum and needs a little nip/tuck, eh? 😉 You always do such wonderful things with your gnomes, so I’m sure your improvements will be wonderful.
I share your frustration with too many cars. We live on a very narrow dead end, and we have one nasty neighbor who has workmen or landscapers at her house every day, and they always park on the street and make it tricky to get out. She once got pissed off at me because her landscaper was literally parked across the width of the street, blocking it entirely, and apparently in asking him if he could move his truck, I was treating him poorly!
Oh, KAT! Those neighbors! We bought a house in the commercial part of Main Street–which means no neighbors. And believe me, that was by design! For our last 10 years in CO, we had similar woes that you describe. In fact, a friend on our street had her driveway blocked by a young man who–when she went to tap on the window to ask him to move so she could bring her teenager to school–was in the midst of ‘intimate relations’ with a young woman! Like, ‘all they way’!! Funny-not-funny. Because it just gets tiresome.
Anyway. What you describe re: your month and your word sounds like its own take on Authentic…maybe?
Happy weekend to you.
Maybe your husband could park out on the road too..might drop a subtle hint! So glad the cosmetic surgery on the nose is underway. Have a great weekend.
I can relate to the neighbor with all the cars. I look forward to seeing the results of knitting cosmetic surgery. Hope the fence restoration goes well, although a natural fence of shrubs will take some time to grow. Maybe by this time of the year, the shrub will be on sale. I hope the rest of the weekend treats you well.
Parking and Pittsburgh. Definitely an issue . . . I hope those “kids” find their own place (and their own parking headaches) SOON. (Neighborly frustrations are really challenging.) I can’t wait to see The New Gnifty. AND the birds! What fun projects. XO
I am numb to the whole concept of tree removal, since the entire atmosphere of our street has completely changed with sewer/street/sidewalk construction– we are no longer “tree-lined.” It’s just awful. I have to actively hold myself at numb/indifferent or I’d plunge into despair in no time.
Perhaps the neighbor has alternate plans for that space? I would think that they enjoyed the privacy afforded by those bushes. I hope you find something you like!!
And I’m thankful every day that I have neighbors on only one side. (I’d rather have none!)