It’s been a hot and humid day today, no sunshine but lots of heat. And then this afternoon the heavens open. Thunder rumbling, lightning flashing, rain pouring down in torrents. And all the time, it’s still warm and mild and this makes the rain refreshing. Everything perks up a little, ourselves included and we hang out the bedroom window just watching the rain and counting the gaps between the thunder and the lightning and making sure Donald and Enid aren’t too freaked out by the whole thing. Warm rain is one of my favourite things in the world. Just the smell afterwards is worth it, when the whole place just smells green.
And the rain really meant staying in this afternoon so I finished off a piece of embroidery for John. He loves astronomy and I found this sweet little pattern from The Flossbox on etsy. I found some cheap canvases in town a couple of weeks ago so just fixed the finished object to the back of one of them and hung it in the living room.
I loved embroidering this and John enjoyed telling me exactly what colour every planet and moon and satellite should be. A good team effort. I’ve ironed the pattern onto some plain terrycloth which I think I’ll make into some kind of little bag. You can never have enough bags. I’m also in the midst of making a leaving present for one of the girls at work who’s leaving in a couple of weeks. I do not want her to go…
I’m going to enjoy the rain a little more and get ready for school tomorrow. And eat a chocolate brownie x
We had similar weather here yesterday, and I was driving to work marveling at how green everything was. I love a good spring rain.
And I love the embroidery! I actually love all of your homemade wall-hangings; what a great idea. Also, the embroidery does make me a little sad. Poor Pluto must feel so left out. Poor little guy.
I felt bad for Pluto too, especially as John kept saying, ‘It isn’t really a planet you know, it shouldn’t really be there…’ But Pluto was a planet when I was a kid so it’ll always be a planet to me!