Knitting Blog Chic Knits

Hi everybody — due to a very Tragic Server crash, I lost all the wonderful comments you left about my Mom & our garden. THANK YOU for being so kind and generous — I think we have the ghost out of the machine now but I apologize for the wacky site behaviour the past few days…

self-portrait Tuesday

What, you say? Who’s that girl?
Well. This is a 50% Self-Portrait.

That is my Mom. ;p

She was visiting for a few days and we really got to it in the back yard. I thought she looked adorable (she’s 75yo) in her jeans, working away on the ground (on my behalf!) Those are lilies-of-the-valley in the middle, liatris (sterile) on the right, and some unknown vine-y ivy in the front.

Two things are very special about this.

FIRST: my Mom is even here, especially doing anything. She was very ill last year at this time and it brings me great joy to see her traveling, gardening, doing all the things she loves. I have to salute her — she took hold of the situation, has lost about 40 lbs and feels great!

SECOND: those lily-of-the-valley originally came from my DziaDzia’s (grandpa) garden, maybe all the way off the farm. It’s a touchstone of something we all have in common across the miles and years and I know I will love seeing it in the yard.

We had fun deciding where it was going to go. LofV is *much too friendly* of a plant, multiplying and going everywhere. Liatris, even though this is the hybrid kind, is like that too, although to a lesser degree.

So what you see above is my Mom’s solution. She found a corner of the yard, where we weren’t really planning on planting and made them their own habitat where their beauty can tickle us without torturing us with their bad habits.

What was really fun was that she used a ton of the rocks we dug out of the yard while we were excavating the space for the pavers. Our house is built on the scene of a fire; the previous 19th century house had burned down and elements of it are spread all over our lot.

She used the smaller ones to make a border between the pavers and the beds — we hope to use up every bit of found stone — very good luck :)

  Monday Morning Mirth  

Well. All I’ve got to say is that I read it (dozing through the forest chapters — damn that’s a heavy book). I cried (a little — when it falls on you, it HURTS). And I marveled (5 out of my 10 theories were right-on). But the most mysterious thing about Book 7?

SNAPE!
Oh why. OH. W.H.Y. was he only on about 1% of the pages? The most interesting, most conflicted character (called “the Authentic Protagonist”) in recent popular fiction is buried (literally) in the back field at school while we’re subjected to the self-orbital musings of a spotty teenage boy sitting in a tent.

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows:

But of course, in the Internet Age, you are never alone! Here’s some interesting opinions on this phenomenom — feel free to leve me yours!

And here’s one for you Ladies, which is probably why we all had a soft spot for Him to begin with . . .

This Week’s
Most Sarcastic Hair?
Vicki Beckham, Oh WHy did You pollinate our Yankee Beehives?
I’ve seen this on co-workers, bus mates, but even
normally level-headed Artistes seem to be under your spell…
. . . . . . . . . . .
thanking my lucky ancestors that wearing that hairstyle would require a Wig Job
for moi

stop by and say hey!
– bonnemarie –
@Ravelry

. . . . . . . . . . .

YouTube is my Friend
QUE?
SillyMeYouTube…

. . . . . . . . . . .

=
WARDROBE
Get Dressed…

BROWSE
the complete Collection at
Le Chic Boutique

>>>>>>><<<<<<<
Chic Reads & Views
>>>>>>><<<<<<<

Basic Knit

Knitting Beyond the Edge

read the reviews of
these books at the
Chic Knits TGIF Library. . . . . . . . . . .

Really, you’ve got too much time on your hands…
let me help

the Best of Craiglist

the Chicagoist

Go Fug Yourself

you really don’t need English: Gossip Italia

fly Panopticon

Duncan’s TV AdLand

Joe’s NYC