Time to Grow Lettuce

I restarted the lettuce-growing operation in the basement. The seeds are beginning to sprout in the rooting plugs:

Once they’ve all sprouted, I’ll transfer the rooting plugs to individual mason jars under the grow lights, and in a couple of weeks, we should be having fresh salads for dinner every night.

It is about time for me to start thinking about putting in a seed order. I am going to order from MIGardener. I just haven’t had good luck with Victory Seeds since they moved from Oregon to Texas, and MIGardener comes highly recommended by Sarah.

We’ve already decided not to do pigs again this year.

The husband and I were at the fire department dinner Thursday night when he got a text from one of our employees who lives down the road from us. Apparently, his family had a grizzly bear in their yard that evening. I saw the photos. A couple of weeks ago, another neighbor posted pictures of grizzly tracks in the snow (verified by Fish, Wildlife, and Parks).

It is wild to me that we’re in the second week of January and at least one bear hasn’t denned up yet. It might have to build an igloo now.

I spent yesterday morning working on my punch list and got most of it handled. “Punch list” is a building term that refers to all of the minor tasks that need to be taken care of, usually toward the end of a project. Some of the items on my list only required a phone call. Some involved updating a couple of websites. If I don’t corral and deal with those little tasks, though, they tend to fall through the cracks.

After lunch, I cut out a black corduroy Ramona skirt. That will be today’s project, once I finish the remaining items on the punch list.

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I’ve decided to change the podcast production schedule starting this month. I am going to release an episode every other week. On the in-between weeks, I am sending a newsletter to my mailing list. If you want to get on the mailing list, go to the podcast website and scroll down to the bottom of that home page to sign up.

The newsletter will feature additional information about the current episode, a teaser for future episodes, and photos of my current sewing projects. It will be similar to the blog, but I won’t include any photos of lettuce seedlings or roosters.

One of the classes I am teaching at Sew Expo is on knitting pattern publishing. I’ve been thinking a lot about the changes I’ve seen since I published my finishing book in 1996. Back then, desktop publishing was in its infancy. Now, anyone with a computer is able to publish anything in virtually any format. What a revolution.