oh HAIL!

apparently our gardening season ended the same way it started

 with hail

yesterday afternoon we had tornado warnings, thunder and about an inch of hail

I'll be going out a little later today and stripping any usable tomatoes and peppers

and these three pumpkins  


this is what the blue spruce looked like from inside the house











and this picture taken about an hour later of the tracks the dog left in the hail on the patio

this morning there is still a pile of hail around the rose bush in the front yard and along the edge of the new brick work

very strange weather for almost October!




the work has begun on the necklace part of the Chocolate Cherry Jewelry Suite

this piece has some open spaces, and I'm trying a new technique to create those

hope it works the way I think it will







the body of the "tactor" sweater for Mr Cute is finished, and last night I started on the sleeves



time to get to work!