norseland

Finally caught some local seasonal fruit right at the start of the apple season to can earlier in September. Haralson Apple Preserves turned out quite sweet and will be good for making mini apple pies for Thanksgiving maybe, or just as gifts of apple jam. I used the leftovers from canning to mix in with oatmeal. Yum!

The knitting is continuing along a sock trend. Finished one pair for a friend's wedding in November well in time. I had a small moment of weakness and filled up on more sock yarn in Duluth. I still need to take out and finish the darned sleeves on my cotton mid-season cardigan that has been all but done for a while. Am finally going to do what I intended from the start and do short row sleeves from the shoulder down. Had to knit up a baby cardi to remember how again.

Big accomplishment for the season has been scraping a large garage worth of lead paint and priming and painting it before the really cold weather blew in. Still have the siding on one side of it to finish off. Now to research the house siding project.