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Wild weather!

With the exception of that one time when I was 18/19 and I moved out of state, I’ve lived in only two neighboring counties here in “sunny” California. For most of the last 20 years we’ve been suffering serious drought conditions. Until now.

We’re experiencing some incredible storms featuring atmospheric rivers that are causing flooding as I’ve never seen. Aside from some fantastic rainbows, there have been some really beautiful results. Here’s one.

It’s wedding season!

After a long dry spell, I’ve been to two weddings in two weeks.

I very much enjoyed a scavenger hunt in Las Vegas to find a surprise bouquet for the bride. I still can’t believe how hard it was to find flowers on the Strip on a Sunday…apparently it’s practically impossible after 2 in the afternoon. So the concierge at our hotel helped me out by taking these from the arrangement on the desk. And I just so happened to have some yarn in my room…

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And of course I needed a cute little bag. After all, what would a Vegas wedding be without a little bling? I spent two weeks knitting and felting a bunch of little purses. I gave one to the Vegas bride and here’s mine.

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The second was my good friend’s mamma’s Hawaiian themed wedding. These were a surprise for the bride for her eight bridesmaids. We had a wonderful time going to the flower mart to pick out the flowers and then putting them together.

IMG_2175 Bridesmaids Bouquets

The daughter of the bride was also working with her sister-in-law on table decorations. After combing Pinterest for ideas she came across a Pin for using wood rounds as risers for a centerpiece but that looked really expensive. Turns out the sister of the bride has some property that has an orchard so they cut up one of their trees and the daughter of the bride had them finished at her work. The sand dollars are cookies, the sea shells are candies, and the sand is cookie crumbs. These really came together beautifully!

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They also needed a ring bearer’s pillow and had an extra yard of fabric from the bridesmaid’s dresses, so I whipped up one of those too. I also surprised the daughter of the bride with a little bag. After all what would your mamma’s wedding be without a little bling?

Ring Bearer Pillow Debs Bag

So much fun playing with flowers and knitting and sewing. And boy was it good to do girly stuff after that long little boy baseball season!

 

Where am I?

Last night after 8:00 I was filling the fish ponds in the front yard. The temperature has been in the 90s and they were 1/2 full (or half empty from the fishes’ point of view). It was still very warm and a little muggy. I felt a water droplet on the arm not holding the hose and thought to myself, “Hmmm, that can’t be a splash from the pond, can it?” Well no it wasn’t. It started raining. Five minutes later it stopped. Then started again later and I had to make the kiddos come outside because they didn’t believe me when I said it was raining. When I woke up this morning it was still dripping enough to form puddles.

Here is driveway at work today:

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Usually at this time of year we are getting ready to head to Michigan for summer vacation. We fully expect that we can have rain on any given hot and humid day there. Not here in Northern California where our rain should have come between November and April when the temps are much, much colder than now. In fact, we may have our very first rain-out of our Little League season tonight and we are in the post-post season.

The gods must be crazy.