Squash Roundup

No matter how carefully I label plants, I always seem to end up with some mysteries in the garden. I have some squash I can’t identify.

Anna asked for Georgia Roasters again this year, so I have two of those plants:

I grew Winter Luxury Pumpkin again for pies:

I threw in a white pumpkin just for fun:

I have no idea what this is.

It sort of looks like a zucchini—both plant and product—but not really. These may end up going to the chickens. Sarah might know.

I’m also growing Burgess Buttercup and Butterbush Butternut. The plants are growing, but not as vigorously as in past summers when it was really hot. This year has been cooler and rainier. We’re supposed to have a week of hot weather, so perhaps they will catch up.

Every year is different.

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I had a whole day at home yesterday. I tackled all my paperwork in the morning, recorded today’s podcast episode, then spent the rest of the day in my sewing room. I am trying very hard to finish some existing projects because I have a terrible case of startitis. I traced off clean copies of my woven top patterns and the Amarena dress pattern. I have to make one final muslin of the dress to make sure it fits properly before I cut into the good fabric. I need a few more thrift store sheets.

As soon as I get some backing fabric, I will turn that crazy quilt serger project into a pillow.

I did cut out and start making another top from a Kaffe Fassett wideback, mostly because I had the correct color thread in my serger. I can rationalize anything. 😇

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DD#1 called in the late afternoon. She and her husband were in Washington state last week because he was interviewing for a job there. He has been the dentist at the Coast Guard station in Ketchikan, Alaska, for the past four years. He would have liked to stay in the CG, but the two of them wanted to come back to the lower 48. His only option, really, would have been to transfer to Cape May, New Jersey and no one wanted that. He has taken a job in Port Angeles, Washington. They are beginning the process of moving back and finding a place to live.

Some time in the next two months, all of the kids will be in Washington. That will make traveling a bit easier for all of us.