Progress, of a sort.
Oct. 19th, 2017 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkMy costume is nearly done - just (she says) need to sew in the sleeves and the skirt. And then do buttonholes, but only two of them.
DB's is cut out, but I've got just over a week to do a vest and a long coat with capelet. And many pockets. You'd think that'd be plenty of time, but I moved wrong last week, and tweaked my back and it still hurts. Yesterday's election inspector training didn't help -- the folding chairs that the township uses are awful for me. Theoretically, they're nice chairs, but the angles are just wrong, and I couldn't relax in them at all -- just sitting was uncomfortable enough.
We got an inch of rain on Thursday, and Saturday we got over 3" of rain, so there was no working in the gardens over the weekend. I have gotten two gardens cut back and most of the cottonwood branches picked up. I really should go out there with a rake to get them all, but see previous note about a sore back. Once it warms up today, I plan to pick up willow branches and cut back the small garden next to the lilac. Somebody needs to thin the lilac, too, but J is too busy helping other people to do stuff at home.
I took down the hummingbird feeders, as I haven't seen a hummingbird in a few weeks. There is a pair of teenage sandhill cranes loafing about in the backyard - yesterday I looked out and one was standing in the pond and one was standing in the strawberry patch.
DB's is cut out, but I've got just over a week to do a vest and a long coat with capelet. And many pockets. You'd think that'd be plenty of time, but I moved wrong last week, and tweaked my back and it still hurts. Yesterday's election inspector training didn't help -- the folding chairs that the township uses are awful for me. Theoretically, they're nice chairs, but the angles are just wrong, and I couldn't relax in them at all -- just sitting was uncomfortable enough.
We got an inch of rain on Thursday, and Saturday we got over 3" of rain, so there was no working in the gardens over the weekend. I have gotten two gardens cut back and most of the cottonwood branches picked up. I really should go out there with a rake to get them all, but see previous note about a sore back. Once it warms up today, I plan to pick up willow branches and cut back the small garden next to the lilac. Somebody needs to thin the lilac, too, but J is too busy helping other people to do stuff at home.
I took down the hummingbird feeders, as I haven't seen a hummingbird in a few weeks. There is a pair of teenage sandhill cranes loafing about in the backyard - yesterday I looked out and one was standing in the pond and one was standing in the strawberry patch.
