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Knitting scarves for flowers

We are having freezing temperatures here in Victoria with snow forecast for the weekend. This brought to mind that I once knit scarves for daffodils …. could not recall the details … searched out the post …. dah dah ….

Img_4443The weather forecast for Thursday said flurries might happen and possibly even stay on the ground as snow.  So, during a mindful knitting workshop yesterday  morning (most worthwhile; email me if you want details and when the next one will occur), I knit up a few scarves and one shawl. 

When I got home I put them on the daffodils in the front garden.  They looked cute but a bit strange as it was bright and sunny so I took the knitwear off the flowers and came indoors intending to get ready to go out again.

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Between putting away the breakfast dishes and changing shoes a rat-a-tat-rat-a-tat sounded on the skylight in the kitchen, the sun disappeared, and within a few minutes the chair on the back deck looked like this. 

Well, drat!  I wasn’t going to go out and try to put scarves and shawl on the flowers in a hail storm; I had my sandals on, for goodness sake. 

Instead I sat down with PerCy and emailed relatives back east to inform them about the weather  in Victoria – with pictures as proof – to show them what we have to put up with.

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By the time I was finished my missives of mercy the sun had come back out, the roofs were steaming as the hail melted, the deck looked like this and I wondered if I should knit cotton sunbonnets for the daffodils.