Monthly Archives: June 2016

2016
06/07

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Daffodils revisited

IMG_4667At last I was able to work on this daffodil quilt again.   I love the colors!   My goal is to get the top done this week.

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2 quarts of strawberries picked last night are tonight’s treat.

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This is the most beautiful kale I have grown.  Not an insect bite anywhere on any leaf.   They just looked so perfect.  You’ll notice that I picked a huge bowl (fits on the lawn chair).   I washed and froze it and it will crumble beautifully after frozen, so it takes very little room.   Then it will be available for many dishes this winter.

2016
06/06

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food
Garden
Knitting
Life

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An ordinary summer day

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Watering takes priority when it’s hot, so as soon as breakfast is over, the watering started in the hoop house.   While watering, I found the first zucchini.   Yes, it was small, but it was part of our lunch salad.   There are 2 more out there half this size and I will let them get a bit larger.   But as you know zucchini are prolific, so I’m getting a head start on them.  I worked on the tomatoes for some time, taking off suckers and put the ties around them so they don’t crash.  Many of them are now in bloom.

(Oh, yes, a load of laundry was started before going out to water – can’t have a dryer adding heat to the house later)

Yoga is on our Monday morning list to do, so we went to that.   We went to bed sore, so I couldn’t believe I wasn’t sore from all of yesterday, however, I’m very happy about that.

After Yoga was lunch time.   And then we both took an hour nap which is not normal.   I think yesterday was a bit strenuous.   DH fertilized the outside hill garden, and will water it later this evening.   And I can’t forget that we get our steps in each day.  10,000 steps takes a bit of time.

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Finally a time for crafts – sewing etc.  I finished this box stitch wash cloth and sewed a little.

Then it was supper time and after that supper and bed for the animals.   That brings us to our on-line Bible study after which I will put some lettuce seed in the hoop house to get a new crop.  Oh, and then I get to water the front yard.  (And some days we get to water grapes and blueberry bushes, which we are so blessed to have.)   I really like the rain to come about twice a week.

By then we are exhausted and as I look back through the day, it doesn’t seem as if we got much done, because the next day, we start all over again and do most of the same things again.    Does this sound familiar to you.   If it does, know you are not alone.   Even so, I love summer time.

2016
06/05

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food
Life

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STRAWBERRIES

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It’s our annual strawberry day.    This means we pick up the strawberries we plan to put up for the year.  They are a full month early according to the grower.  We ordered 25 half flats which is 200#.   I’ve been getting 20 half flats (8# each)  in the past, but we used them all, so decided since DH likes them so much to get a few extra.   I think I was trying to kill us both.  I washed them as we were ready to stem them.

IMG_4655Then we both stemmed them and I sliced them when we had a quantity.   This is about 70# waiting to be bagged.   I put them in the refrigerator and we had lunch of potato salad and a green salad.   Then we went back to work.

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Mid afternoon it was time for our dessert.   This is cashew cream over the berries.  Then back to work again

IMG_4658We bagged them with about 6 cups to the bag and ended up with 50 bags.   So he can pull out one bag a week.   They are all safely in the freezer and since we have some berries in the garden, we will be eating those and leave these until the garden ones are done. By then we will have forgotten how much work was in them.

IMG_4659All 25 boxes are now empty and the clean up is done.   We are exhausted!   We started on the berries at 10.30 this morning and took about an hour for lunch and animals, finishing at 7.30.  I am so grateful someone else did the backbreaking work of picking them And that we’ll not be too stiff for Yoga tomorrow.

 

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2016
06/03

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Life
quilts

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A Reason to Launder

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Here is the reason that I launder each quilt that I make before it leaves the house.   I would hate to have recipient get a quilt and then have problems.    These quilt squares were made from fabrics that were already squares which makes them difficult to preshrink, so that didn’t happen.   IMG_4650

They frayed more than a quarter inch in places.   I’m not sure if this was because of the fabric shrinking or if they were just fabrics that fray a lot.   I have made more than a hundred quilts and never had this happen.IMG_4651

So I pulled the fabric back  under and hand sewed the various places that came apart.   Next week sometime, I will go back over all the seams where the square meets the yellow as that is the place they pulled apart, using a several step zigzag.   That should hold them.   I just didn’t have time to do it today.   (there was more work outside to be done)

As far as the blog is concerned, the quilt is finished, but I want to make absolutely certain no one else gets a bad surprise.

 

2016
06/02

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Garden
Life
quilts

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Churn dash revisited

IMG_4646It is quilted now and ready for binding.   I’m really hoping to finish this tomorrow as well as transplant tomatoes and get some laundry done.   Then there are  meals to make for the weekend.   Why do these other things get in the way?   I guess it’s all a matter of priorities.

2016
06/01

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Life

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Gardening is work and exercise!

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cabbage on the left and tomatoes on the right

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Kale on the left and potatoes on the right

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zucchini on the left and Swiss chard in the picking on the right.  Don’t you love the rainbow colors?   We are ready to plant a new crop of lettuce.    These are a few of the prolific items growing in the hoop house.

 

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Yesterday it went up over 100 degrees in here, so we put up the screen.  This is about a month early for that.

IMG_4630It has been so dry this last month that the dark spot there is all the water left in our pond, which was full up to where you see the ring in the upper third.

IMG_4642weeds are just thrilled with this weather.

And now I will go wash all the greens including a mountain of Swiss chard that I picked today.

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