I got the first of two swaps from my No Sheep For You Swap partner, Mary Anne. It is two balls of pink-and-orange (05 oranges/salmon on the ball band) “Flotsam” cotton/polyamide/acrylic/viscose/acetate by Louisa Harding, plus a pink aluminum stitch holder and three glass bead stitch makers. Thank you, Mary Anne! I have my “downstream” pal’s yarn bought but not ready to send out. 
It’s Ellyn Cooper’s Yarn Sonnets Handdyed Cotton in Canasta that I bought at Seaport Yarn. My pal lives on Kodiak Island in Alaska! I’d send her a Georged dollar to spend there but it’s against the rules.
We went hiking in Fort Hill Park looking for evidence of campesinos (is that the right word? I mean illegal aliens living in the woods. I don’t think that’s the right word) to bring to the police. And we found it. Clothes laid out (to dry?) 
, a week-old print copy of el Diario, two firepits 
(In the woods. With bone-dry leaves all around. Brilliant.), tons of empty beer cans and bottles, liquor bottles (what kind of brand is “Kobra?”), matches, cigarette packs, and a pile of feces. On the trail. No deer left this lying there. I’m not including the picture I took (for documentation’s sake). All in all it was an interesting excursion with lots of fun had by all. We checked for ticks afterward, none anywhere. Totally forgot the four cans of Deep Woods OFF! we have purchased for such trips.
We finally planted the Kwanzan Sakura my sister bought for us. It’s the same species of flowering cherry tree that my father planted outside my bedroom window when I was small. We placed it where, when it grows tall, I’ll be able to see it from my office window. And now it’s raining! Please don’t drown our poor little tree!
Check out this awesome blogpost. I’m hungry/amazed just looking at it. Talk about talent, I wonder what her knitting looks like! I’ll have to check the archives…
