No pictures, I'm afraid. But I've finally got the quilt for my inlaws basted! Now I just need to quilt it. And, y'know, steam-mop the basting spray off the floor.
Jazzy has started extended-day preschool two days a week - it's an hour to an hour and a half longer, so I'm packing him a lunch now. But there was an opening for the rest of this school year (a whole month or so) and his teachers thought he might benefit from it.
Squiddle, meanwhile, has finally been shown Episode IV in honor of Star Wars day. His favorite character (so far, we're paused just after the escape from the Death Star) is Darth Vader, because of the music. I... cannot argue that? Though I do have to say, rewatching the film for the first time in several years, I'm discovering anew how much Episodes V, VI, I, II, III, and Rogue-1 influence and reinterpret my understanding of the movie. (Example: Obi-Wan: "This is your father's lightsaber. He wanted you to have it, when you were old enough." Me: "Obi-Wan, you lying fuck.")
The veggie garden is finally fully planted, in a very intensive square-foot gardening way. The raspberry and boysenberry beds have chives and parsnips in with them. The strawberries will be sharing space with bush beans, peas, and, if I can find some starts or seeds, cucumbers. Another bed is two kinds of beets, two kinds of carrots, two kinds of scallions, and leeks. The next bed is 4 tomatoes (each a different variety), basil, dill, two kinds of squash, and thyme. And the last bed is oregano, parsley, more parsnips, Swiss chard, monarda, borage, luffas, and Minnesota Midget melons.
My fruit trees are almost finished flowering. I've decided that the ones I planted last year, I'm going to pluck the fruit off while tiny and give them one more year to develop root strength. (The persimmon trees, hurrah, are finally putting out a few leaves and proving they're not dead sticks.) Time to turn my attention to the blueberry bushes next, I guess. That plus working out a decent-sized run for the chickens, who are giving us more eggs than we can eat.
And with that, I'm off to bed!
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