I laid this fleece preparing to skirt it (take all the junk off it) when I realized, I need help determining how much to remove. It seems a bit matted to me. So I will wait until I find someone more knowledgeable to help me. There are three of these fleeces. By that time, I should have learned how to skirt them.
And the sewing I thought I would get to do today, didn’t happen because we needed potatoes. This is a 44′ row and I had dug just about half of it two weeks ago, but we ate all those potatoes and needed more. So I removed these red, white, and blue potatoes. Interestingly, I found the red potatoes to be the most prolific and robust.
Then we planted these bell peppers which were waiting for a spot in the hoop house. There is a double row of them. I hope they grow fast because it is already the first of July and I am late getting them a home.
This is where the tomatoes have gone. I’m going to have to coax them back down. There are tons of blossoms, some fruits, but no color yet. And today the sweet potatoes opened their first blossoms.
Then we needed to go shopping for a garden hose. Our back garden is on 3 levels and to make it easier to water, I want to leave a hose on each level and a lightweight hose to drag up and down the steps which we can then connect to the hose that goes down the row we want to water. (DH had trouble understanding that as well)
A trip to the feed store and a quick in and out at the grocery completed out day. I love going into the produce section and seeing all that food, thinking that I don’t need to buy any of it – well except for bananas and avocados. And I did need vinegar for cleaning. I have found vinegar and baking soda does a great job on toilets and vinegar cleans most everything else.
And that was the day, I was going to have just for sewing. But guess what, Mary is scheduled to come on Sunday and that will be a fun treat, though we haven’t decided on a project.
But for the next 24 hours, I’m entertaining Heavenly guests and listening to what they have to teach. Happy Sabbath and have a great weekend.
When I get the chance to take a break and lie on my lawn chair, this is my view, which I love.
There is only this tack stitch left to do and then turn them right side out. We have 148 of them for the hospital. So later this week, I’ll finish them up and in September we will deliver them. What a great afternoon we had, catching up and doing a good deed at the same time.
Progress is very slow on these socks as ideally one has to sit down. I am nearly to the toe decrease and once there, the socks get done rapidly.
This little fellow and friend have visited us several times today. He is a black headed grosbeak and loves sunflower seeds. He tosses the other seeds overboard.
And look! This plant volunteered in the hoop house this year. It is right at the top and will be a delightful treat for these birds.
These came in the mail today from my cousin. I’m guessing my aunt had started a quilt before she had her stroke and these are the result.
I changed how I’m going to make this quilt. So I placed the pattern under my light blue background, then sprayed each cutout piece with an adhesive, using the box to catch the overspray. They I laid the pieces in the proper place on the background.
This is what he looks like now. I’m still deciding if I want to applique before or after adding the batting and backing. The pattern maker suggests, I applique all three pieces together.
There wasn’t much sewing time today, but this pattern calls for bias tubes to make it look like stained glass.
This morning before the sun made our part of the world warm, I was able to get out to the garden and pick some food for breakfast and lunch. I wish photos could show how good these berries are.
For lunch I dug potatoes (the blue round items are blue potatoes) and onions, then picked some cabbage which turned into an excellent coleslaw. I had a red pepper which I added and dressed it with avocado/rice vinegar. We had the rest of it for dinner tonight.
So now there are three big piles of wool waiting for sale and/or processing.
I know I said I wasn’t going to test any more quilts for a bit, but this is a Christmas wall hanging and just too cute to pass up. The border for this quilt is these small log cabin blocks – just 28 of them. I quit for the day
wrangled sheep. Well actually we held doors open and shut as needed, while the fellow who owns the sheep wrangled the sheep into his livestock trailer. Only one photo because it’s difficult to help herd sheep while trying to get uncooperative sheep into a trailer and keeping let the ones already on there from getting back off. So for the time being we are down to three sheep . We will be getting more sheep – sometime – either this summer or next spring.