You're Not the Boss of Me

Despite being married for 34 years, the husband and I do not work well together. After butting heads over a project in the garden yesterday morning, I said to him, “Why do we have such a hard time working together?” He thought about it for a moment and said, “We both have a very large streak of You’re not the boss of me.”

A healthy dose of humor helps. Eventually, we come to an understanding and the project gets done.

He tilled in the last bit of pig manure. The tomatoes will go in that spot and I expect them to do very well. I weeded the strawberry bed; we are going to be inundated with strawberries this year if I can keep marauding turkeys and ground squirrels away. I prepped the row underneath the pea trellis for planting and discovered a ground squirrel hole right in the middle of the row. No doubt the little jerk has been wondering why the smorgasbord isn’t ready yet.

I’m trying not to think about being behind on gardening this year. I’m okay as long as I look at the weather and not the calendar. Next week, though, is going to have to be a push to get everything planted. I remind myself that everyone else is in the same boat. The people who planted a few weeks ago when we had that streak of warm weather lost all of their plants and will have to replant them.

We are supposed to get some wicked thunderstorms, wind, and possibly hail this afternoon. My class is from 10-1 and I’m coming home right after it’s done. I realized, when the husband was away last week, that I did not know how to start the new generator. He replaced our gas generator with a larger diesel one last fall. I had a cheat sheet for starting the old generator but hadn’t had a lesson on starting the new one. We went over that on Sunday and I took notes and pictures.

I made a sign for the plant sale:

Susan has this sandwich board to advertise events at the community center, so I made up two posterboard sheets to go on each side. They aren’t fancy, but they work. I also sewed up a clear vinyl cover to slip over the board to protect it from rain. I thought that was very clever of me. Susan’s house is right across the street from the community center and we put the sandwich board on her property.

I cut out another Simplicity 9469 top yesterday afternoon and finished all the edges on the serger. I just have to sew it together and hem it. I think I may lengthen that pattern into a dress and use the Fableism fabric I got at Pacific Fabrics.