So many projects...

These mittens have been waiting for their tops for almost a month now.  Both the right and left hands are finished to this point, and one has its convertible cuff knit.  I got stuck on the other one, though.  I just need to sit down and wrestle it into submission, then knit on it for an hour or so to finish it up for this coming fall/winter.

 Yay!! One sock done, and it fits! It fits ME!! (which is how I intended it to be) The other half of this pair is OTN (on the needles) and since I began at the toe, I'm now up to the patterned part of the foot.  Just 44 more rows until I can begin the gusset & turn the heel.  Yay!!

 And this little cloth is finished and on its way to my May Dishcloth Swap partner who lives in New Hampshire.  It was an easy pattern, but one I pretty much made up by myself.  So I'm thrilled that it turned out as well as it did.

 (I'm still working on a few other projects, but since I'm typing right now I won't be snapping pics of those.  I know me, and I'd get something set up to photograph, then start knitting on it and forget to download the pic or finish this post.  So I'll save those projects for another time.)

The Sprinklers of DOOM have been finished, and reburied in the ground.  There are still trails of dirt all over the yard, but I'm no longer in imminent danger of being swallowed up by the earth if I walk outside.  This is good.  We have raspberries (3 kinds), grapes (2 kinds), currants (1 kind), blackberries (4 plants of one variety and 1 of another but the lonely only isn't actually growing so this should count as 1 kind as well), and serviceberries (1 kind) all planted and beginning to bud.  Yay for fruit!  Also, we (and remember that "we" means that I bought the plants and Jared/kids actually planted them) planted 6 tomatoes, with 4 more waiting for tomorrow.  There are 4 green peppers, and I have another list of plants to purchase this next week.  Planting and tending a garden always makes me feel like a real, true grown-up. 

This spring has been quite wet- lots and lots of rain, and this is good for growing things.  However, I do live in the mountains, and every so often that means we get snow instead of rain:

 (driving the kids to school this morning)

(yes my lilac is blooming. no that white stuff is not plaster dust)

Thankfully it has warmed up enough to melt most of the snow.  Also thankfully, we have water walls around the tomatoes, and plastic milk jugs (with the bottoms cut off) around the peppers.  These protect and insulate our tender young sprouts from the less than warm night-time air, and also from the snow we were blessed with today.

Gratitude List:
* Sprinklers are done and they work.
* New kitchen window treatments for a total of $10, courtesy of IKEA (rod) and the local thrift store (curtains).
* Good music.
* A washer and dryer that work, so I can wash all the gardening mud out of my family's clothing.
* Cookies!
* Homemade pizza for dinner tonight.  Mmmmmmmm
* Finished knitting projects, and more new projects in the planning stages.
* Our cars are all working well.
* Jared is in town this week, and he's actually home this very minute, working on what will soon be a side yard fence.
* Homemade bread from last Saturday's "day of baking" at my church.  We made 7 batches of dough, and each batch = approximately 18 loaves of bread.  I brought home 12 loaves.  I may try this (on a much smaller scale) at my house next week...
* The snow is melting.
* It smells like spring outside and in!
* God is good.  I am blessed.