Planting in a Snowstorm

I worked in the greenhouse yesterday morning. All of the tomatoes and peppers are planted, although seed suppliers seem to be cutting way down on the number of seeds they put in packets. Some of my tomato seed packets only had 15-18 seeds. I will get more on my next trip to town. I know Susan and Sarah will have lots of tomato starts, but they always go quickly at the sale.

The weather outside was lousy. I woke up to about 2" of heavy, wet snow, and another inch or two came down while I was planting:

Hopefully, that was the last big snow of the season. (Yes, I know, we’ve had snow in June. This is Montana.) The high is supposed to be 63F on Wednesday. I’m going to plant cabbages, broccoli, and cauliflower today.

The husband switched out the gas line to the propane tank at the greenhouse. We have had ongoing problems with the propane heater turning itself off in the middle of the night. He installed a bigger line that he hopes will keep that from happening. We do have a backup diesel heater on a thermostat, but it would be nice to be able to rely on the propane heater.

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I worked on class samples on Friday. I have a ruler class coming up on Wednesday and we’re going to be using the star, heart, and hexagon rulers. Making these samples takes some time, but I’ll be able to use them for all future ruler classes.

I did some hexagon quilting in the border of my English Paper Piecing hexie wallhanging:

I’ll take this with me as an additional class sample.

I also loaded the PowerPoint files for the Bernina event onto the laptop. I don’t normally incorporate a lot of tech into my classes, but these are helpful for the Bernina events so I use them.

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The bunny came hopping through the yard yesterday. I was a bit worried that maybe something had gotten it because I haven’t seen it all winter. It is still pure white. I tried to get a picture but it went under the porch before I could grab my phone.