I took the dead vines off the fence today. I had help. It was weird. Really weird. Went pretty quick with two of us, though!

I found a few of P’s phlox flowers that had escaped the frost, so I picked them in hopes of not having to sit and feed Sarah.

I had her on my hand and I was holding the flower so she could drink, but then I knocked over the bottle of leather deglazer that I forgot I hadn’t closed this morning, and we had to get outta Dodge because it’s basically acetone, which is what you put in a kill jar if you have an insect collection. She ended up on the kitchen counter on a towel that I’d had wrapped around the bowl of dye I used for my boot laces.

They’re still wet, but my laces came out well. After the dye on my boots dried, and I soaked them with neatsfoot oil, the laces were too light. I think once they’re dry, they’ll be perfect.