Good Sunny Morning!

Thunder and rain last night, cooler yet sunny this morning. I do believe that summer has arrived in Minnesota.
Granted, I’m not going to assume that all will be in the 70’s and 80’s. My snowstorm shopping yarn project, The Peachy Shawl, is stretched and blocked out on the counter as we speak. I know that I will be using it during every month this summer. That’s just the way it goes here.
Be prepared, I say.
And get out and enjoy this great day!
I, myself, am writing from the porch as I survey the excellently manicured lawn, thanks to the hubster, and the beautiful hanging baskets, thanks to Home Depot and Wagner’s.(By the way, don’t let the road construction on Brooklyn Blvd scare you away from Wagner’s. They are open!!)

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Yesterday my copy of Silver Darlings arrived. It’s the 1941 book about the Scottish who took up fishing for herring after being forced to live near the shore away from their farms in the valleys.
They were replaced by sheep.
Yep. No kidding.
And in the Shetland Islands, and if you watch Shetland which I highly recommend, there are more sheep there than people.
And, if you are a yarn enthusiast, Shetland hosts Wool Week, this year from Sept. 28 – Oct. 6. Bucket list items for me. Both Shetland and Wool Week.

Dream big, I say.

Well, the book came from  Great Britain. More specifically, it came from World of Books, Mulberry House, Woods Way, Goring-by-Sea.

Isn’t that a lovely town name? Goring-by-Sea? How could we name our little villages like this? Brooklyn Center-by-Palmer Lake? Uptown by BDE Maka Ska? Marine-on-St. Croix?  Oh wait. That one already exists.

Maybe I’ll name my address as Brooklyn Park-by-Creek.

I remember driving around Carmel-by-the-Sea and noticing that some had named their houses. Cute little bungalows they were, too.

Perhaps, I could name our house.

Habitat of Perpetual Improvement.

Cottage of the Loud Garage Tools.

House of We Don’t Sleep Past 6 on the Weekends, Why Should You?

Pick one. Any one.

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I travel by reading. Right now I am catching up on the Stephanie Plum books by Janet(cool name) Evanovich. So, I’ve got Trenton, New Jersey covered.

I finished three books in quick succession by Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie. Wow, she’s good. I highly recommend reading them. I would start with Americanah.  Those books take place in Nigeria and in the United States.

Her books led me to Things Fall Apart, the first in a trilogy by Chinua Achebe. I haven’t decided yet if I will continue the trilogy. This book took place in the late 1800’s in Nigeria.

Silver Darlings takes place on the northern coast of Scotland. Well, it begins there, but the boat’s crew of fishermen were captured by a press-gang. Who knows where they will be when I start reading again.

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane is about Li-yan, the daughter in a  family of tea farmers in a small village in China.

So, let’s see. I’ve got Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.   Oops, I did just download Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Haven’t started it yet.

Cheap travel.  I realized this  years and years ago when I read Tony Hillerman’s books about the Southwest specifically during the winter. Great way to get warm.

Time travel, too. One of the Adichie books was about the Biafran War from 1967 -1970. And the Silver Darlings is in the 1800’s, I believe.

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Dagnabit. I see fluff. Maple wingdings are not enough? We have to have cottonwood fluff now, too?

Time to sew or quilt. Just stick my nose in some piecing or a book.

Have a lovely afternoon. I’ll either be picking tender tea leaves on a hillside in remote China, tending sails on a pirate ship, or sitting next to Ranger in his Porsche.

“Babe.”