Hello, devoted readers! I have had a very busy weekend. Bug Boy and Little Brother were here for the weekend. I told their Mom to be sure and send them with some work gloves. I had plans.
Mom and I managed to get our onions out last week. I needed to re-level one of the walls of my green bean bed (which honestly, I wasn’t looking forward to doing). So Little Brother and I dug out the dirt on the inside where I needed to fix the wall. After that, I removed the blocks and was ready to start leveling the ground that they had been sitting on. When I sat the blocks on the ground outside, I noticed that ground was quite level, so rather than digging down, I added some dirt and reset the block I where I had moved it. The end result was that my bed was a tad bit bigger, and I didn’t have to work quite as hard as I anticipated. With the wall re-leveled and re-plumbed, Little Brother and I dug out all the winter weeds and fluffed up the dirt for planting. Bug Boy helped me put the hog panel back in for my green beans to grow on. Then I ( with the boys help) mulched all around the bed. Then while Bug Boy went down to the pond to fish, Little Brother and I walked down to the bottom of the property to check out the dry creek. As we had over 6 inches of rain Friday, I figured there would be a wet creek. I was not disappointed!
This morning, after a breakfast of biscuits and gravy, we ran to town to get potting soil and gas for the mower. When we got back to the house, Bug Boy helped me set up some grow bags. I decided to plant my potatoes in some of these. I thought they might be kind of cool, as they have Velcro doors so you can reach in and pull out a few potatoes without having to disturb the plant. Sounds good in theory. Little Brother helped me plant the potatoes, and we had more potatoes than we had grow bags, so we planted the rest in the bed we had just prepared. This evening, I planted carrot seeds in the remainder of that bed. When it gets warmer, I will add bean seeds close to the panel so they can climb up and over, forming a nice trellis. I also planted our leeks this afternoon.
I had harvested some red bud flowers yesterday, and brewed a red bud tea. This evening, I made some red bud jelly. I found a small batch recipe, as I had never tried red bud jelly before, so I thought it best to make just a little. If I decide it’s tasty, I can always get some more blossoms, maybe. I say maybe, because while red bud trees are fairly short as trees go, they are still taller than me, so my ability to gather them is somewhat limited. I will let you know if the experiment is a success, but it is pretty.
I also did glaze fire number one for the set of dishes I am making. Fingers crossed that they all come out right! I have about three more firings to complete the set. If nothing cracks in the fire, I will be so happy!
In knitting news, no hats, but I am knitting myself a new pullover sweater. I am making the Ohlala tee. I am using a beautiful moss green yarn from Dragon Hoard Yarns. It is knit from fingering weight yarn, and is a top down circular yoked sweater. It’s so pretty. I am about halfway done with the yoke, then the rest is just stockinette in the round on slightly larger needles, so once the yoke is done it should move along fairly quickly. I am looking forward to wearing it! My knitting/kayaking/camping friend Sheila went with me last Saturday to Eureka Fiber in the Ozarks. We just went for the day and had a nice time! She found some beautiful hand dyed wool/silk blend yarn to knit a sweater for herself, and I picked out some yarn to knit The Witching Hour. I have been wanting to make this for quite some time, but had not yet found the right yarn. It will probably be my next project.
I hope you all have had a great weekend!