Wowie, what a busy Friday I had. I had lunch with my Goddaughter, Sara. Then we took my New Beetle to an empty parking lot at a school, and she practiced driving my stick shift. She does a pretty decent job of it, considering how afraid she is of doing it wrong. We are preparing to go on a trip out east and I want her to be able to drive part of the way. I will be sure to drive the hilly areas in Vermont, for example. It should be pretty easy for her to do a good job when we drive through Ontario from Port Huron/Sarnia to Niagara.

After my time with Sara, I called a few yarn shops back, and we scheduled some classes. I’ll be doing my ColorJoy Stole at A Gathering Basket in Chelsea on November 6 & 13, and Buttons/Beads in Polymer Clay at Yarn Garden in Charlotte, on September 11. I’m excited to do these classes. I love teaching!!!

Then I took some yarn to my knitter, Wendy, because we’re working on my 3rd design in the series of 3 Turkish-inspired designs, for Heels and Toes Gazette. And she happens to be really close to City Market so I stopped in there. I got some petunias to add to my geranium pots, since the geraniums refuse to bloom (although their variegated leaves are totally gorgeous). I wanted more color. I got dark purple and salmon (matches the flamingos).

I also talked to my computer student, Glenn, who runs the cheese booth at the market with his wife, Ruth. And then I worked my way around to Seif Foods… to talk to Magda and get some of her wonderful food. I got a veggie wrap which was incredibly good. Then I bought some baklava which is quite different than the Lebanese version so commonly found around here these days. It was more like a triangular wrap of filo dough with a large amount of sweetened walnuts as a filling inside, and drizzled with sugar syrup. Very lovely.

After I got home, we went to Charlotte Bluegrass Festival to jam with some friends we only see once or twice a year. That was very very fun. Other than the cold and mosquitos, that is! We had to finally get going home about 11:30, a little early for us, because it was just getting too cold to be fun any more.

I had such a busy day I didn’t take any photographs. Today (Saturday) I did a tour around the house and watered every plant that needed it. I planted the petunias I bought yesterday (the pots are quite overpopulated with plants now, but beautiful).

And I was delighted to see that my pot of lettuce is really looking healthy. I moved the pot in the last few days, because it was sitting in the sun in the late afternoon, and Laura told me lettuce doesn’t like afternoon sun. Well, the lettuce loves its new place, I think. It hasn’t been there long but at least a few plants have 1/4″ leaves. And the parsley we planted (from small plants, not seed), is so big I need to start harvesting it very soon. It’s making shade on top of the Swiss chard. What a happy problem that is!

Off to do more work on the Turkish-style sock, and then to perform as The Fabulous Heftones at Altu’s, 6:30-8:30. May you all have a great weekend.

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