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I finished two different projects over the last couple of days, one I have been working on for a while and one very quick one. First, the big one. My argyle sweater is done! The sleeves are even, it’s just hanging on the hangar goofy. The back and sleeves are plain, so the front is the only patterned part. But that is enough! The pattern is Peggy Sue cardigan, designed by Anne Berk. The yarn is from the kit for the pattern from Craftsy (or Blueprint or whatever it was calling itself at the time). It is Cloudborn Highland Sport. My only modification is I changed it to a V-neck, as I don’t really like round or close necklines and it is an easy fix. My second FO is a Mithrola necklace , design and kit by Laura Nelkin. You can’t tell it from this picture, but it is very flashy and sparkly, because it is knitted out of chain! Unfortunately you can’t block chain (LOL) so the draped bits with the bead shift around quite a bit. I’m still wran...

Things are looking up somewhat in the garden! We got some nice rain yesterday and overnight, so this is the first day I haven’t had to water in quite a while. The vegetable boxes are all doing pretty well, though not entirely to plan. But that is OK! We have a lot of green tomatoes, so will probably be buried in them shortly. There are a lot of vines and flowers going on in the pumpkin box, but I don’t see any actual pumpkins yet. So I guess we will see on that. The flowers at the front of the house are a little sad this year, but what’s there is still pretty. And finally the big news! The grape vines we planted last year have one (1) bunch of grapes on them, and the apple tree from last year has two (2) apples! We were honestly not expected anything from them for a couple more years, so it’s a happy surprise. How about you? If you are gardening this year, how is that going?