What a month it's been so far. . . That's another post for (hopefully) another day sometime soon.
For now, a quick update on what I've been knitting and reading since the June Yarn Along.
I finished the socks I was making for DD1's birthday, and apparently forgot to photograph them. They have all ready been gifted, and looking back through my pictures since June 1st, I can't find a photo of the finished product. Oh well. She likes them, that's what matters most.
After finishing the socks, I went back to working on my Hue Shift afghan, casting on for the fourth and final section. It's going slowly, because I have been way too busy with gardening, and chickens and family to knit much at all. In fact, it sat untouched for two weeks before I picked it up again and spent barely a half hour on it before setting it aside. Sooner or later, I will finish it. I think if things go well, maybe even this month.
The library finally reopened three weeks ago, for curbside pickup of materials ordered online. So I did manage to read a book; Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate. Although I've liked every other book I've read by this author, I found this one somewhat annoying in the resolutions of problems in the story-line, and almost returned it to the library without finishing it.
Currently I am reading Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers and really enjoying it.