Hot here again!

I got out and mowed yesterday before the rains coming this weekend and yesterday was nice and cloudy but today....Whew!  It's 90 or near there and the humidity is up again.  So glad I mowed yesterday!
I used my furniture polish again too.....look at this one.........

I was so thrilled by the look of it I didn't take a total after picture but as you can see it really made a difference.

I've been cooking up some "grub".....yesterday was lentil and ham soup.  I had leftover ham but no bone so I went to the store and they had "smoked pork hocks" so I froze a few and used one to put in the soup.  Evidently they use these a lot in the South.  It was yummy and very filling and healthy too.  I made cornbread to go with it.  This was when it just started cooking.  Here's the recipe

This morning I made scrambled eggs and threw in some banana peppers and chopped up tomatoes from my little garden.  I always take a picture before it's cooked and then forget to take one after....I guess I'm too hungry to bother and want to get right to the eating part! LOL!

Pretty colorful it was and very tasty....again a healthy dish.

Fall/Winter is coming as the spiders are making webs like crazy around the outside of the house and trying to get inside too!  This one was eating a moth for breakfast.  YUCH!  It looks like the black widows that love to hang out by my front door but I didn't want to get close enough to identify it.

I had my knitting book out and I thought maybe Miss Peeps was trying to read but right after I took this picture she attacked it and ripped it!  I think she's teething....she'll gnaw on whatever is available!  But not my books....shame on Miss Peeps!  I had put the yarn up but I didn't think I needed to worry about the book.....WRONG!

Speaking of knitting, I have 2 squares done of 42 for the "scrapghan" blanket I'm working on.  There are 15 felted wool squares, 15 crocheted squares and 12 knitted squares.  The squares are working out to be about 9" x 9".  Each block is a different pattern which makes it interesting and I'm learning some new designs.  The first was a plain garter stitch....all knit which makes it look like all purl to me.

The next was stockinette; which is knit a row, purl a row.  Now this looks like knitting to me...........
but it does curl up..........

The next one is a diamond stitch which is fun to make but you have to pay attention....no t.v. watching for this block!  Can you see the diamond pattern starting to emerge?  It's hard to see with the navy blue yarn.

I need to sit down and make my Christmas list....so far it's just in my head and that's pretty scary!
Tonight starts Grey's Anatomy but with Derek gone.....(after all summer I'm still not over it), I can't imagine that the show will be as good as before.  The whole show was based on them as a couple, their careers, their home and children!  Oh, don't get me started!  As for the 13th season of Dancing With the Stars?  Bring it on!  It started Monday and there are some great people on there.  Bindy from Australia who's Dad was the alligator whisperer and who died....she's 18 now!  Where have the years gone?  Paula Deen is on and one of the guys from the threesome that took down the terrorist on the Paris train.  Plus, I forget his name, but he's a crazy old guy with white hair and I mean "crazy"!  Everyone treats him like he's normal but I don't see anything "normal" about him.  The poor gal that has him as a partner is already having to fight him off.  He's disgusting!  Anyway, that's my Fall t.v. roundup along with college football.  The NFL is almost non-existent on regular t.v. since they can get "the big bucks" from the cable networks.  It's okay as the college games are more exciting anyway.   What are you watching this Fall?
Happy Trails!