Tour de France, Week II

The Tour, Week II. This is the total I've spun since the Tour began.

Zucchini shown for scale. 

Spinning at least one bobbin a day, I have worked through all the "crap" fiber, I think, and now I can turn to the nicer lot ... alpaca, camel, merino.  As I've been going through the house during the last week or so, rooting around for cheap yarn with which to make cat mats ... I've found a lot more unspun fiber. I just kept tucking it here and there, thinking I'd remember. Well -- I don't have that great a memory. So until the Tour is over, I'm going to spin a bobbin a day, at least. Today I spun 4 bobbins. I'm really hoping to get through most of my stash by the end of the Tour, and then I'll try to figure out what to do with it all!

I've been knitting very little. I've decided to rework one large WIP into something different, but the spinning has kept me busy so I haven't gotten to it yet. 

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We have had a very strange summer on the Eastern Seaboard ... it hasn't reached average summertime temperatures yet. We have a few really hot days, then it rained and the weather went back to cooler-than-normal. It's been great for my electric bill, but my garden is not exploding like it normally would be in mid-July. 

Except the sunflowers. They're going nuts. 

Black-Eyed Susan vine. They don't really look like the traditional Black-Eyed Susans, but they're very pretty. 

Elephant Ears, lost in the Hosta flowers. 

Annabelle Lee, Georgie Girl, and Spot (in front of Georgie) enjoying a cool summer evening! 

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