Housewife, 54

Not really the cat, but rather my husband....  He has been to a convention for the past few days, and I have been wallowing in the luxury of managing my time all to myself!  Well, to be honest, I have had some things booked to organize my time - a pretty busy weekend actually.... Saturday I attended a workshop of dying with Indigo.  It was held at a friend's home, in her back yard.  What a lovely fun day.  The weather was perfect.  The other gals were friendly, the lunch was yummy, and the presenter was really good at instructing us about indigo and how to use it to dye fabric.  We each had 4 squares of fabric to play with, and all kinds of tools and materials to aid us in creating fascinating designs.  Here are mine:  On Sunday I did my "thing" at Petersen Farm.  It was the annual "Day at the Farm" where the public is invited to come and visit.  There were all kinds of displays about farming in the old days (and some new ...

Since it is summer and my hands have been busy with gardening, I have not been doing a lot of knitting.  Instead, I have been reading.  I am a member of an online group of D E Stephenson admirers, and we usually have a book that we are discussing.  The Yahoo group has just finished talking about her book The Four Graces, and the Facebook group is just starting to read and discuss House on the Cliff.  I usually read the book under discussion, but so often I can't put it down - I just forge through the whole thing in an afternoon or evening!  W e spend a few days discussing each chapter... I occasionally post a comment, but more often I take the opportunity to re-read an old favorite, and check in on the discussion occasionally to see what sidelines they go off on!  Even more than the analysis of the book, I enjoy the aside information and comments.   DE Stevenson enjoyed a long literary career, writing in the UK.  She began in the late 192...

We have had a very good spring for gardening. A nice blend of cool and warm, rain and dry.... everything is doing quite well just now....  But that can all change in an instant.  Today's forecast is stormy - rain, wind and hail with the possibility of tornadoes.  Guess I won't go shopping, I'll stay home and dink around on the computer and maybe do some sewing.....? Here is an update on the gardens: Our vegetable plot up at Mt. Hope church is doing well.  Everything that I had planned to have in by this time is planted and growing.  I did not get good germination with my bean seeds, so I have already planted more.  Just this week we got compost and filled in the last section with the "no-dig' method: laying down cardboard and piling the compost on top and planting directly in that compost.  This is supposed to suppress all weeds and give you clean soil that you can keep nicely.  Here is a picture: Our veggies at Mt. Hope.  Our ...