We did get out on the boat finally Friday afternoon. We took it for a relatively short sail, but had a nice time in the 80+ degree weather. I was wearing a bikini top and jeans.<\/p>\n
Saturday, we did some errands, running around getting another bird feeder (the birds around our house are little piggies) and 40 pounds of birdseed. I also bought some African violets to replace the ones that I pretty much intentionally killed off a while ago. They needed to be transplanted and I didn’t feel like buying additional, larger violet pots for them. Combine that with unintentionally forgetting to water them, and nature took its course. I had really wanted to take cuttings from the parent plants and start new ones, but this works, too.<\/p>\n
My seedlings are coming up quite nicely, for the most part. The tomato seedlings are quite vigorous (which I have found in the past), with each little pot yielding at least one seedling. The green onions aren’t doing too badly, either, though they didn’t germinate quite as nicely. But, the regular onions only germinated with a 30% or so success rate. I had problems with them when I direct-sowed them into the ground last year, as well. Not sure what’s up with that. Next up, it’s time to work on germinating some lavender seedlings. I want to create a border along the driveway of all lavender at some point, so I have to start somewhere!<\/p>\n
No stitching progress this weekend. I was back to feeling tired a lot, which just isn’t conducive to working with specialty stitches. Every time I went to work on it, I looked at which band I was on and was turned off. I’m halfway through the Italian cross stitch and because I’m using a dense evenweave (Monaco, I think), the stitch won’t pull the fabric at all. So, it ends up just looking like a cross stitch. I think that has me a bit bummed out. I need to finish this band and move on so that I can feel better about what I’m working on.<\/p>\n
Well, that’s it for me for today. Hopefully, I will have some stitching progress to share in the near future, if I don’t go home and sleep every evening this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We did get out on the boat finally Friday afternoon. We took it for a relatively short sail, but had a nice time in the 80+ degree weather. I was wearing a bikini top and jeans. Saturday, we did some … Continue reading