A couple of other things:

It must have rained like crazy here while I was gone; everything's wet. That's kind of unusual, even for (still) May. I do hope we have a cooler wetter summer than the past few we've had; it will be good to have the drought end.

I have a couple servings' worth of beans I picked off my bean plants (the French Fingerlings are super-productive; the Tenderpods less so). My tomato plants are starting to flower and seem to be doing well. (I do hope it stops being so very wet; that can lead to blossom-end rot in the tomatoes).

I made granola again today; I did half a batch of the Koinonia granola (the kind I made before). Half a batch because I was a little low on rolled oats and also because I didn't feel like wrangling such a huge amount of stuff again.

Here's the first photo of one of my week-off projects.

This is Olaf. Olaf is made from that monster pattern (it's a .pdf file) I linked to a while back.

My monster looks a lot different from the one on the pattern; the shape of the head came out differently (I think that was how I stuffed it). And I decided my monster needed two eyes. His eyes are vintage plastic buttons scrounged out of my grandmother's button box (which my mother currently has custody of). His nose is a different vintage button from the same source - in fact, it looks not unlike some of the "vintage Czech glass buttons" I bought a year or so ago at an antique shop. (There was just this one lone button in the box so I didn't feel too bad using it as a monster nose).

I used a strand of dark turquoise Pelliza (not even sure if that yarn's made any more; it was part of a grab-back from the late, lamented eKnitting online shop) mixed with a strand of dark turquoise Muskoka (which I know is not made any more). It took less than a full skein of each. The "Knobbles" are just cream colored Paton's Classic Wool, but they wound up going off a little bit off-centered.

I think Olaf looks kind of like a baby monster.