Random Stuff

So, I got more of the planting done. Lots of purple flowers - deep violet globe amaranth, bright yellow marigolds, clear blue lobelia. I have lots of peppers still to do and more herbs. I have a yellow blackberry bush to plant.

Our garden clay soil needs a lot of amendments. To keep the beds from getting full, I have started to sneak the clods of dried clay into the trash. In the past, I tried to move them around the yard, but now the yard is lumpy.

The fish printing went okay, but less paint got onto the shirt than I really wanted. I touched up the shirt by hand and added some foam stamps that I got for .50 on clearance to create undersea plants. I trimmed the shirt and want to add lettuce edging, but my test edging didn't go so well, yet.

I got a lot of spinning done. Finished a braid of hand painted roving and started a bag of roving in several shades of yellow that I got at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.

I have one more fish (for printing) in the fridge that I got at the Asian market. He(she?) is a porgy and was very fresh when I bought him on Tuesday.

I have to tidy the house because DH is arriving home today. My ADHD clutter making skills have run rampant without him here to monitor me.

Since DH was away, I got a Hawaiian pizza last night and watched North and South. I just love Elizabeth Gaskell's stuff.

I finished watching "ADD and Loving It" off of the Tivo. I know a couple of people who would probably benefit from seeing it.

I got a set of assorted antique finials off of eBay and they should arrive this week. I am hoping one of them looks good enough to add to the 1801 wool winder that my friend, Will Pownell, and I are restoring. I got it at a going-out-of-business sale at an antique store in the Sparks/Hereford area. It was 50% off! Will did an amazing job restoring the function of the winder's clock. He hand carved a new clicker, a new clock hand and a peg for the base. He got the wooden gears to function and everything works rather smoothly now. The wheel turns 144 times before the click tells you the skein is complete. Will even bought me a bottle of wood polish for antiques, so the whole thing has a nice gleam.

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