According to Plan — Janet Szabo

The husband is working at our fire department’s annual fundraising auction this weekend. He is technically “retired” from the fire department but still helps out and would respond to any structure fires. Today is the general merchandise sale and tomorrow is the equipment sale. He loves the equipment sale. I think it’s mostly because he gets to schmooze with lots of guys out on the sale field. You can practically smell the testosterone out there.

I won’t be at the auction because I am teaching a class today. I am teaching the McCall’s 8636 men’s joggers pants. This should be a fun one.

I stopped by the store yesterday to drop off Sammy’s finished Burnside Bibs. She offered to model them for the blog:

They are so cute on her! She was bouncing around the store in them. Sammy has also started her project for the Bernina University fashion show. I’ve been watching her idea take shape and I think it is very cool. She is making a fashionable outfit but the construction technique is what is going to get the attention of the judges.

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I unmasked the spare bedroom (AKA Deana’s Sewing Room) that I just repainted. I wiped down the baseboards and mopped the floor. It turned out well:

We’ll put everything back together soon. I also need to make some curtains. The husband and I discussed the bathroom renovation. He may come up with some kind of temporary solution until he has time to tear it apart and redo it correctly.

The other two bedrooms in the rental house really need to be repainted, too, but I don’t have the time or ambition to start them right now. I think they will have to wait for next winter.

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I planted all the cucurbits—squash and cucumbers—this week. Things are looking good out in the greenhouse, although I am a bit disappointed in my tomato germination. Only about 60% of the seeds germinated. The peppers outperformed the tomatoes and that hardly ever happens. I have lots of pepper seedlings. The brassicas are up. In another week or two, I’ll start the beans and corn.

I am expecting a call from our piglet supplier soon. She usually has piglets by the end of April/beginning of May for the 4-H kids. The pasture is ready for them.

The chicks look less like chicks now and more like miniature Light Brahmas. The older hens have stepped up egg production again and I am wondering if a few of them are going broody. I am not opposed to getting chicks the natural way.

All in all, the farm stuff is right on schedule.