{"id":12,"date":"2007-05-21T18:25:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T01:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-11-29T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T18:22:52","slug":"merry-month-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Merry month of May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this time of year. The garden changes daily, and while this means that I can&#8217;t possibly keep up with the mowing, it also means that there is something new blooming every time I go outside.<\/p>\n<p>The azaleas are in full swing and the rhododendron is getting started.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/azaleabed.jpg\" alt=\"Azalea bed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The unidentified purple things (probably also some stupid oversight on my part) are blooming everywhere &#8211; whatever they are, they spread.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/purple.jpg\" alt=\"Purple flowers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One tree peony has started blooming, though not the other one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/peony.jpg\" alt=\"Peony\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love the colors &#8211; it makes me want to dye things. And plant things. And play hookey from work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/azaleacolor.jpg\" alt=\"Azalea colors\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend was a camping medieval recreation event near Pittsburgh. This is one of the few events that I can truly dress like a Viking, with all the layers (linen, wool, wool, wool), because it is rarely cold enough here for that much wool. Friday night it was 34F, which is definitely cold enough. I was comfy, but a lot of people weren&#8217;t. Saturday night it rained, and made me happy that I didn&#8217;t have to camp like a Viking, but was staying in a modern waterproof tent.<\/p>\n<p>I worked diligently on the socks (mostly the multicolored ones), though I did learn that trying to knit in the dark in 40F temperatures is not sensible, and leads to frostbite and unknitting the next morning. Wouldn&#8217;t you think this was obvious?<\/p>\n<p>I also came away from the event with plans for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a new sprang project<\/li>\n<li>two pieces of tablet weaving<\/li>\n<li>some spinning I&#8217;d like to do<\/li>\n<li>and of course more knitting<\/li>\n<p>Plus I want to write a book. Or several. The writing doesn&#8217;t intimidate me, but making enough samples to illustrate it adequately may be beyond my capabilities, or at least my available time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this time of year. The garden changes daily, and while this means that I can&#8217;t possibly keep up with the mowing, it also means that there is something new blooming every time I go outside. The azaleas are in full swing and the rhododendron is getting started. The unidentified purple things (probably also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}