The Nope Ropes are Here
It must be summer. The snakes have arrived:
This one was stretched out on the path over to the garden, sunning itself. This is the skinniest garter snake I’ve ever seen. Once it bulks up, it’s going to be a respectable specimen—it was a good two feet long—but I mistook it for a stick and almost stepped over it. I said hello and walked around it instead.
[I have a friend who calls snakes “nope ropes” and another who refers to them as “dragon noodles.” I’m just happy they are in my garden and eat bugs.]
All the forest animals.
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I am trying something I saw on Pinterest. My plant labels always fade and become illegible by the end of the summer—no matter what I use to write on them—and I need to know which tomatoes are which in case I want to save seed. The Pinterest poster suggested buying old butter knives at thrift stores and labeling them with a label maker. I stopped in at one of the thrift stores in town yesterday and picked up a dozen knives for $0.22 apiece.
We shall find out if this works. I may need more if I can’t control myself and end up with 40 tomato plants again this year, but this is a good start.
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I have assembled most of the back of the BU jacket. The process involved a bit of trial and error, but putting together the other pattern pieces should be easier now that I (think I) know what I’m doing. This was the hardest part. Quilting won’t take long, and sewing the jacket shouldn’t take long, either. Stay tuned.
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I spent another 30 minutes on the phone with QB support yesterday morning. Apparently, the programmers thought they fixed the problem, so they sent out an e-mail to all the affected customers only to find out that some users were still having issues. I did get QB to refund the first month’s subscription fee, though, so that was a win.
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And finally:
Joann Fabrics was always my last stop on the way out of town. No more.