Hi folks!
Jeremy is out working in our mini balcony garden this very second. He faithfully read the 'Container Gardening for Dummies' that Kathy sent us, and hurtled himself into horticulture armed with his new knowledge. This year we are growing blueberries!! The book says that they adapt well to containers, and we even have the right kind of soil and everything. We're going to try to make the ivy grow up our ugly wall, and to grow zucchini (try, try again) that look like 8-balls.
The work in progress (blueberry view):
Here, as promised, are pictures of my newest and most fabulous knitting creation:
Oooh, raglan sleeves!I have just realized that everything that I have made/bought in the last six months has been some combination of blue and green, and unfortunately none of these items can be worn together because the colors are so close that they clash. Duh.
The rehearsals in Triesdorf (the tiny village, "Dorf", near Nuremburg) went exceedingly well. I was able to communicate pretty well in German, and I understood probably 80% of what the choreographer said to me! Super progress. It was quite fun to be "forced" to speak German-- it really helps! As for the dancing itself, I had a blast. I just adore dancing in ballet-panomimes-- we are doing "Don Juan" and "Semiramis", both with music by Gluck. In "Don Juan" I play an innocent farm girl that Don Juan promises to marry (lots of google eyes are involved). The plot of "Semiramis" is some unholy baroque combination of Hamlet and Oedipus-- the queen (maybe) has killed her husband and then unknowingly falls in love with her son, he then kills her (also unknowingly) while he was trying to slay the ghost of the king. All in 20 minutes. I play an vaguely oriental (ie, I wear a turban!) suitor who tries to win the queen's affections with dancing (men come from far-flung lands to become the new king-- this is where she falls in love with her son). But the important thing here is I get to do manly baroque steps and brandish a sword!
Whew. That was hard to explain.
6 comments:
Sarah, nice jeans!
how do you make a zuchinni look like an 8-ball?
Hee Hee. Funny you should mention the jeans-- they are actually men's jeans, but they fit me so well that I decided to buy them anyway (sometimes things are not so clear in my fave 2nd-hand store in Brooklyn).
the sweater-so fabulous. I think I found it on knitty, yours looks way better with the fitted sleeves. container gardening looks fun. maybe some container strawberries?
Oh yeah! Karen, you totally read our minds about strawberries. When it gets a touch warmer we are going to bring home a bouncing hanging basket of berries!
You are sweet about the sleeves-- if they had been just a touch more intentional I would have made them slightly looser. It is a little weird to see my upper arm muscles outlined in wool.
PS- Kris- how you make a zucchini look like an 8-ball is a closely guarded evil genetic secret.
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