Yesterday was the first of my two-day G20 holiday, and all week the weather report for Thursday has been up and down. One minute it was calling for rain, the next for sun. My plans vacillated between gardening (of which there is always work to be done) and making jam. I wasn’t going to bother…
Month: June 2010
Poppy love
I enjoyed a totally blissful weekend at the farm, so much so I just did not want to come back here to this tense, cop-ified city of mine. The G20 is right around the corner and I work in what is anticipated to be a major hot spot for protesters. Today I could feel serious…
The sewing machine goddess finally smiled my way
Ugh. I was about to give up completely. Throw in the towel for good, my brief life as a quilter over and done before it barely began. First I had those thread breakage problems while I was at the cottage that were incredibly upsetting. When I got back to the city I bought special quilting…
Growing my own strawberries this year
Last year I planted a couple strawberry plants in my side bed where it’s quite sunny, as a bit of an experiment. I don’t have a lot of veggie space to devote full time to strawberries, but I thought it might be nice to pick a couple handfuls of berries now and then. Last year…