Yesterday was very hot, and I’ve just been feeling under the weather lately. I didn’t sleep well the night before, woke up at 4 a.m. yesterday morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. So, I basically told Mr. Ink that I’d be spending the evening indoors knitting. He said he wanted to plant one of his trees and to expect a late dinner because of it.

So with that settled, I set out to do that knitting.

And I finished on side of the tibetan clouds stole! I also did all the set up rows for the other side, and am now one row in to the main chart. So, just, you know, 8.5 repeats of that and a another chart for the end and I am DONE! (Never mind that I can only get in one repeat a day if I’ve nothing else going on, and it’s ridiculously boring, and so if I really DO want to finish this stole this month I am going to have to get used to boredom over the next week.

I decided I didn’t want to be bored last evening, and once done with the set up rows I started something new. It’s…another one of those projects where I pull a skein from stash and try to make it fit. I’ll show you tomorrow.

Mr. Ink came in around 9 and decided we’d have to order some food in. Because he wasn’t even done. So we ordered some pizza, and then Mr. Ink headed back out to work on his planting project. He was at it again until 1:30 a.m.  That guy’s got motivation. Want to see it?

You’d think that tiny tree in the ground wouldn’t take all evening, but he had to dig up all that sod where the mulch now is, and then he did his normal dig way down and amend the soil trick. Extra problem was with the edger on the left side, it popped out and he’s not ready yet to yank all those stones out so he had to install it again. One more small bit of garden space down. And this one in particular is great as it eliminates mowing over the side of the bank. That was a really irritating section of yard.

I’ve been told this tiny tree will really shine in the winter. That it’s needles turn a bright yellow. He’s really excited about this one, though I am not sure which trees he’s not excited about.

I took another quick photo.

Last year Mr. Ink put this little garden area in to hold a couple of his evergreens and a peace rose. That rose did not make it. Mr. Ink is currently trying desperately to keep a new rose, so he planted this year’s rose. I can’t remember what it’s called, but it is a little bit heartier, and it’s a lovely coral color, which is actually what I most wanted there. The blooms on the thing when we purchased it were HUGE. Mr. Ink planted it, the blooms went all dead and I kept deadheading it for a bit in order to allow it to work on acclimating rather than blooming. It looked a little shocked for a bit, but now is throwing up these tiny little blooms of perfect color. I’ll take it! It looks like it’s doing much better as well. If we can get this one to last the winter, we may plant more. I still want a peace rose, and we have hopes for something VERY red.

That’s about it from this corner of the world! This weekend’s BIG plan is to mulch my new veggie garden. Mr. Ink says he’s going to get a truck load for that project. Probably needs it! I think my current stack of mulch would MAYBE cover 1/3 of the veggie garden, and a truck load is easily the cheaper option. But most of all, while it is supposed to be cooler this week, summer has only begun and I need that garden to hold moisture, which it is most decidedly not doing at the moment.