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Brought the sock I was working on into work at about row 20 and discovered the scarlet was more pink than originally perceived. The CFLs we have here really distort colors. Anyway, restarted with gold and dark blue, they look very nice, but now that I’ve gotten to the 45th row of the 2X2 ribbing, I seem to lack my pattern. I have two other patterns here, but all three have diffferent heel flap configurations and only one meshes with the number of stitches on the needles right now.

but all my herbs are immense and beautiful. It’s now time to bring the tender perrenials indoors, so I’ve dug up my rosemary and laurel tree. I’ve had it sitting outside for about a week to acclimate to being in the pot and I dug up six basil plants (tiny ones) that were the product of a midsummer experiment with a bare patch of ground and two year old seed. I’m going to bring them into work to offer as winter kitchen window pets. My kitchen windows are not bright enough.

I discovered today while giving Mummy’s vegetable garden it’s first weeding of the year that my lemon balm grew back and is rather healthy. I was under the impression that it was an annual and never bothered to look for it. It being September, I don’t quite know what the quality of the product is going to be, but I’ll find out soon (found it well after noon, herbs are at their best in the early morning).

All in all, a great experiment, to be expanded upon next year. This fall, I’m thinking cold frames so I can grow my own annual seedlings next spring, to not be at the mercy of my budget.

I went to the grand (re)opening of my local grocery store that was basically an ungrade to the local chain – Hannaford, for you New Englanders… no, the Winthrop opening, not the Augusta “green” one, they had to close off a whole road to handle the traffic for that one, they only had to direct traffic for Winthrop. Anyway, the door gift was these awesome dish towels, they had the Hannaford logo on them, but they are seriously nice, no napping even. There was some non – toxic dish detergent in there as well, that was pretty cool, but I just can’t stop thinking about these towels.