I am the Fun Boss

The husband sent the employees here yesterday to keep them busy while he checked out some jobsites. He told them I had a list of things for them to do. They spread some mulch around one of my lavender beds. We moved a billboard tarp over to the old vegetable garden to kill everything there—I have been looking at a mess in that garden and the old herb garden for three years and decided I want to do something about it. I had them move some furniture out to the storage container. We hung the porch shade and they put my wind chimes up for me. I wanted to get some well-aged chicken manure over to the garden, but that required moving the plow truck in order to get to the tractor. The golf cart was in the way, as well, so they got it started and then one of them drove it around the yard for a bit. I drove the tractor out. They hooked up the wagon and filled it with gas for me and then shoveled three loads of chicken manure into the wagon and shoveled it out into the garden. It is some nice-looking chicken manure:

By that time, they were ready for lunch. I pulled a bag of cookies out of the freezer and one of them said to me, “Work would be a lot more fun if you came to the jobsite every day.” I told him that their boss likely would fire me the first day for causing trouble, LOL.

I am delighted to have some of those jobs done. We have one more day of nice weather before a front moves in. Unfortunately, it looks like rain for our pie social on Saturday, followed by cooler temps for a couple of weeks.

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I’ve been sorting all the stuff I brought back from my trip and looking longingly at some new fabric and patterns. I don’t have time to sew right now. I may not have time to sew again until the fall.

I bought this Sallie Tomato Hudson Tote pattern:

This is a small insulated tote, or it can be used to store craft supplies. It looks fun and challenging.

[I used my Klum House Slabtown Backpack during the workshop last week. That was the perfect bag for that event and I’m glad I had a reason to use it.]

I found a Burda top pattern for a blouse that is very similar to the one I tried on at Kohls that was too short. I’ll experiment with the pattern at some point, although I scored big in the Liz Claiborne section at several JC Penney stores on this trip and my wardrobe has quite a few nice blouses now. I even found two dresses that fit well, which hardly ever happens, and they are bright green. Yay!

Joann Fabrics continues to be a huge disappointment, although I did discover that they are now carrying that elusive 60/40 poly/cotton T-shirt blend. It is labeled as cotton interlock, which is incorrect, and it only comes in neutrals and sad pastels, but they have it nonetheless. I also scored three nice pieces of knit fabric—two pontes and one rayon/spandex—from the mystery remnant rack at a couple of Walmart stores along the way.