{"id":9,"date":"2007-05-13T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-11-29T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T18:22:29","slug":"long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a four-day weekend. My mother came to town on Thursday, and this required half a day of <del datetime=\"2007-05-14T01:48:35+00:00\">frantic <\/del> efficient housecleaning, so I just took the day off. We shopped for plants, and food (and ate <strong>very<\/strong> well over the weekend &#8211; Nick is an excellent cook). More on the plants later. My mother and I worked outdoors, and she pulled phenomenal quantities of ivy. For some reason she likes doing that, though she assures me that I don&#8217;t have to keep any around just for her.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/ivy.jpg\" alt=\"Pulled ivy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between the two of us (by which I mean mostly her), the ivy has been pulled up around two and a third of the sides of the house where it needs to go. Some areas have been cleared twice, and are looking rather ivyless &#8211; it seems there&#8217;s hope!<\/p>\n<p>That bush is of course a redbud and I apparently had complete and utter brain failure, since I even knew it was a redbud. Here&#8217;s the new leaves to confirm:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/redbud.jpg\" alt=\"Redbud\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon while Nick did this (he&#8217;s on the right, in the blue):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/nick.jpg\" alt=\"Fighting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I finished this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/sockstripe1.jpg\" alt=\"One sock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first of the pair is done, and the second has been cast on. I apparently got a bit carried away with the color patterns and made the heel flap too long, but it will work anyway. Of course now I need to make them both like that so they match.<\/p>\n<p>When I sat down last week to write the next section of the Thinking about Knitting article, I realized that I had managed to completely muck up the purl shots. I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking, but that isn&#8217;t any way to make a purl stitch&#8230; I retook them today, so the article should appear shortly.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, for Tamie:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/cat.jpg\" alt=\"Cat snack\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Morgan is dutifully mowing the tops off my pinks so they stay nice and even. He&#8217;s a weird cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a four-day weekend. My mother came to town on Thursday, and this required half a day of frantic efficient housecleaning, so I just took the day off. We shopped for plants, and food (and ate very well over the weekend &#8211; Nick is an excellent cook). More on the plants later. My mother [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}