Now to Plant My Own Garden (and Sew)

The plant sale went well. We hit our fundraising goal and then some, and I am satisfied. I am relieved that it’s over. This was a very challenging growing season, to say the least, and keeping baby plants alive is almost more challenging than keeping baby animals alive.

Now it’s time to plant my garden. I have a well-deserved massage scheduled for tomorrow morning and I need to record this week’s podcast tomorrow afternoon, but Tuesday and Wednesday will be devoted to getting plants into the ground. After that, I plan to spend some time sewing. I have put my projects on the back burner for too long.

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The husband has been working on the old Jeep. It got a new battery, an oil change, and a general tuneup. He also bought some sandblasting equipment so he can sandblast and repaint the trailer he accidentally bought a few months ago. I am excited about this because it means I can sandblast and repaint some sewing machines. We have been watching sandblasting videos on YouTube in the evenings.

The baby robins have been exploring the edges of the nest, which tells me they are almost ready to fledge:

Only two in this hatch; usually I see three. Once, we had a robin with four babies, and she was very busy keeping them fed.

The chicks are almost teenagers now. The husband will rig up the separate area in the chicken yard for them soon so they can be outside with the big chickens. The pigs are happily rooting up the pasture and doing pig things. They nap a lot, too.

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My sewing plans are to make more tops and blouses and finish a couple of bag projects. I need to get some patterns printed at the blueprint place; I was going to do it one day when I was in town last week, but I drove by and the parking lot was full. I’ll stop there this week on a day when everybody and his brother isn’t trying to get plans printed.