It's been blistering hot lately. 90+ really(What is with the weather??). So hot, that my lettuce started to bolt to seed. Arrrrgggghhhh. So I brought the containers inside for the time being to try an extend the season a little. It's a jungle in here! But every cloud has a silver lining and I must say, the tomatoes and peppers are LOVING the weather. As long as I keep watering regularly, I think we'll all be just fine.

I've been spending a lot of time indoors. Paul and I went to Jungle Jim's recently to procure ingredients for my kimchi adventure. We stayed away from any public places though (Memorial Day weekend!) and mostly got caught up on Dr. Who

and Castle.

So between my Matt and Nathan, I've been blissfully glued to the TV... I do love my ruggedly handsome men.

But being the fidgety, overactive person that I am, I also managed to get some knitting practice in (yay for idle hands) as well as some reading.

My latest project was this hat.

I'm not sure if I have this Fair Isle knitting down quite all the way yet but it's definitely coming along. I just don't like how in the English method, you have to kind of let go of your project to throw the yarn around the needle. It's so slow.

I ended up liking the project OK (haha, my dogs love to photobomb). I don't have a ton of different colors of yarn so I had to kind of play it by ear (by eye?) but the colors work decently together

and I enjoy Paul looking like a mushroom.

The last hat I knitted, I had only learned to k2tog (where you literally just knit 2 together) decrease so it looked a little weird but this time I used both k2tog and SSK so the patterns look more even. Also magic loop method = win. I just checked out some books at the library about amigurumi knitting and sock knitting. I'm hoping I'll be able to do this guy soon.

I still don't understand how to do the dingly dangly legs and ears. I bet if I knew how to crochet, it would be so much easier, but I can't seem to get that down at all. Welp, one thing at a time.

Mom promised me a sewing machine for my birthday....

I am such a hippie.....