Tomato Tenacity

I ran errands Monday and took WS to his Kids College class on French cooking. As we got out of the car, I noticed this in the berm in front of my bumper:

WS walked by and said, “Look, that’s a tomato plant,” and I said, “Yes, it surely is. Why on earth would it be growing there?” That led to a few minutes of speculation about the possibility of the community college having been built on the site of a former tomato farm.

His cooking teacher must be an elementary school teacher, because she has about 10 kids in that class and she’s got it running like a small factory. For anybody else, it would be like herding cats.

I had Ali’s little guy here yesterday afternoon. He’s five. We joke about these kids being little Amish boys because they don’t get much screen time. Ali doesn’t have a TV at her house, so coming over here for an afternoon of YouTube videos is a treat. I made a batch of zucchini bread while we watched the following: a bulldozer that sank in a rice paddy being pulled out by two other dozers and an excavator; several trick motorbike competitions; the demolition derby from the 2013 Los Angeles County Fair; and a series of heavy equipment failure videos. I learn a lot from watching these selections, such as why women live longer than men.

[The heavy equipment failure videos just make me laugh. When the little guy was about nine months old, I had him for the afternoon. I had to go do something for a few minutes, so I left him with the husband, and when I came back, the two of them were sitting in the husband’s recliner watching heavy equipment failure videos. This is a longstanding tradition.]

I so enjoy having these kids around. They put up with me, but they are fascinated by the husband. They always want to know where he is and what he’s doing. And they love to sit in his recliner.

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I am up to a dozen Noon and Night blocks. I won’t show you the blocks, but I will show you this:

I got out the collection of 30s/40s reproduction fabrics for my first version of this quilt. (There may be more than one version; we’ll have to see how I feel when I get the first one done.) I love how it looks so far.

I am thinking of using some of my reproduction vintage Simplicity fabric for my Poppins bag:

Perhaps the red one? I also have some fabric with sewing machines on it that would work, too. We’ll see.