Yesterday I picked 7 ripening tomatoes. They were not quite perfectly ripe, but they were low-hanging fruit, and the turtle would have beaten me to them if I'd waited for perfection. I left three of them on Nanny's back porch table and brought the rest home. One had already been tasted by a bird, or something, and had a nasty wound, so I tossed it. But we've still got 3, and there will be BLTs happening soon (with lettuce from the garden, if it hasn't turned bitter).
I just about worked myself to a pulp in the garden yesterday, moving the wood chip mulch into the garden with a pitchfork. Two straight hours of toting and spreading. This has made my butt muscles sore. Every time I take a step, it's like, "ow. ow." Kinda like the walking farts, only silent. There's plenty more mulch to be moved, so there'll be opportunity to work the soreness out, if it ever stops raining.
The purple hull peas haven't sprouted well. We'll probably need to re-plant, if the ground ever dries up enough to work. The whole north end of the garden is a soggy mess right now.
So I'll be stuck in the house for a couple of days, probably working on the lavender quilt. Yesterday I cut all the hexes and background blocks for the hex flowers before I went to the garden. While I was pitchforking, Granddaughter #1 texted me to ask if she could use the sewing room to cut out a quilt. My cup overflowed. ;)
She'd asked for a Hobby Lobby gift certificate for her birthday, and she'd used it to buy quilt fabric. When I came home from the garden, she was at the cutting table, wielding the rotary cutter and rulers like a pro. I stayed out of her way.
She went home for dinner - home is just across the road now, you know - and when she came back, she had #2 and #3 with her. They both grabbed needles, thread, and fabric scraps and started stitching. (Be still my heart!) #3 needed help tying a knot in her thread. For several years, I've been showing her how to wrap the thread around her finger and roll it into a knot, but she just hadn't "got it." Last night when she came to me with her needle and thread, I asked her, "Do you know how to roll a booger?" She giggled and said, "Yeah," and I showed her one more time. She's got it now. :)
#4 had been here with #2 earlier in the afternoon. She came bee-bopping in the door, all full of herself, wearing daisy-shaped sunglasses and a knitted sun dress that was so big on her that her boobies were showing. She's about to go on "bay-cation," and needed me to adjust the dress. I didn't want to cut those knitted straps, so I folded them and sewed buttons on them to make them look like little bows on her shoulders. Her highness was pleased with the result. ;)
I'm having lunch with my former boss today. Although when she retired, we vowed to have lunch once a month, we haven't seen each other since January, for one reason or another. I'm looking forward to seeing her today.
I just wish it would stop raining before time to leave.
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