vicarious travelling: June - hooking, gardening and sailing

I erratically attend the J.J. Ruggers meetings but made a point of attending the 2 events scheduled for June.

The first was a Saturday at Martina's wonderful store and property.

We sat, in the shade, under the tent,

enjoying the slight breeze and amongst the gardens.

I enjoyed the location and the company while double whipping the edge of Linda Powell's Spring Garden Bench.

In Martina's store, Michelle found the perfect yarn for the sky of the piece she has designed for the water workshop (more on that later).

I also shopped:

Primarily for the beginner class that I am going to be teaching

but also for the water workshop.

This was my design for that. It was conducted by Debi Fabi, who had some of her designs for sale but encouraged us to design our own.

I had hooked the flag, pole and chair before the class (and I have to say, Muskoka chairs are a real pain to hook)

Debi passed around a book; The Art of Adam Young, that had some very hookable paintings of water and other East Coast subjects.

Heather was working from a photograph taken last fall, when we were in the Yorkshire Dales

that Debi had kindly put on to the backing for her.

My gardens are beginning to look closer to my vision for them as some of the plants are now established, planted 3 years ago. Yellow False Indigo.

The multitudes of Iris that Brit gave me, finally made a showing.

As did this beauty that has been transplanted twice since I moved it from Long Point.

Both the blue and the pick Spiderwart are blooming prolifically.

I have planted 5 Broom but only 2 have survived (Don tells me that we are at their northern most range)

Even my 2, Covid Christmases, Amaryllis, are happy

On the sailing front, winds have been strong and from an unusual direction (North) which has made our races quite exciting. Caleidoscope did not compete in this years Interclub and the first 2 races were a bit of a "bust" anyway.

Saturday (the race from Erie to Port Dover) dawned very foggy and the boats emerged, all quite close together, and much earlier that expected.

As they moved further into Long Point Bay, the sun came out. I learned later that it had been too foggy to race and that there had been very little wind, so the race was cancelled.

Sunday (the Long Point Bay Race) was also very hazy and very little wind.

Rick and I went out on Spellbound, later in the day, to see if we could catch a glimpse of them finishing. We had a leisurely sail for a couple of hours

and just as we spotted the lead boat (a Farr 60), the wind dropped to nothing. He just limped over the finish line. ( The other 2 boats in the photo had radioed in that they were resigning from the race as they knew they could not complete it in the time frame allowed)