Monday, August 5, 2013
Productive Day
The weather was just as I like it ! Not too hot, not too cold ! I love the low 20's ; the house does't get stifling hot so the oven can be on and it is pleasant to work outdoors. Steve reseeded some parts of the lawn . The previous day he had trimmed the Mayday to let sunshine in and to lessen the number of Mayday berries that fall onto the patio. The tree does give some nice shade and is quite the privacy wall, but I would never choose to plant another one. While pretty in spring with the white blossoms, I hate the berries.
I finished Steve's quilt top. I need to find some fabric spray to hold the layers together and then I'll start on O's quilt. He was the first one to ask for his own 9 patch. Course I couldn't make him one without making quilts for Q and L. I have enough hand quilting to keep me busy for a long time !
ED went to a u pick and came home with 20 pounds of two different kinds of raspberries. They are delicious. I froze two trays in my freezer as I had room. I then bagged them up and popped them back into the freezer. Later on today we will make jam, or rather ED will make jam and I'll just supervise. I may even bake some bread because how delicious is freshly baked bread with homemade jam !
Supper will be easy tonight as we had a delicious baked spiral ham for supper last night. I am not a huge meat eater, but I sure do love ham.Sometime this week we will need to get some groceries. I used the last of the cabbage to make some coleslaw last night. I only have a handful of carrots in the vegetable crisper.There was very little to feed the worms in the 'wormery' or to add to the compost this morning !
I gathered a few more flowers to put into the flower press Steve made. Later on in the week I'll pick a few more and then I think I am done. I have a list of things I need to get done this week, especially a hair cut ! but none can be done until tomorrow. I might just venture down into the basement and see if I can organize the paint cans to see what we'll keep and what we'll bring to recycling. We have several small propane cans from camping that have to go to the depot so I might as well have a 'full load'.
Once the watering has been done, I'll be out in the garden weeding. Our first yellow beans are almost ready for picking.
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