Salad Season Has Arrived

I cut lettuce for salad last night. I made a big garden salad for the husband and a smaller one for me, because I like a different kind of salad.

Mine consists of lettuce, bleu cheese, craisins, and walnuts, dressed with a simple vinaigrette of walnut oil and white wine vinegar. It was delicious.

The potatoes are up:

The grass in the garden is ridiculously tall and I would love to mow, but it has been raining all week (which makes the grass grow even taller . . . ). Saturday is supposed to be relatively dry. I am hoping to cut grass then.

The greenhouse also looks like a jungle:

Truly, I think some of the plants doubled in size while I was gone. I need more of those metal racks to increase the growing surface.

I made a test sample of quilting for my BU jacket. I love the thread—the variegated gold Wonderfil Fabulux I bought in Seattle—but I am still undecided about the inner layer. I used a layer of Robert Kaufman Mammoth Flannel on this first sample and I think I would like something just a tad thicker. I will try the silk batting next.

I have to go back to Missoula again next week or the week after. That store sold several sergers recently and those customers want a serger mastery class. We just need to decide on a date. And I need to start thinking about fall classes for both the store there and the store here.