Month: June 2014

  • Warning: Garden Carnage

    Someone asked in the comments why we’re wrapping all the containers with mesh – it’s like a plastic chicken wire, much easier to work with than metal wire. It’s because we have horrible, horrible squirrels (and other critters, but I’m mostly blaming the squirrels). Everything was looking so nice, especially since this is the first […]

  • grooo-oow

    The garden is growing really well these days! I’m sure it could be hotter, weather-wise, for the tomatoes, peppers and eggplant – but I love this cooler weather. Garden overview, June 12: The cucumber is climbing! We got exactly 1 cucumber last year, but I have high hopes for this one. The sweet cherry peppers […]

  • A Friday

    Spinning up some colourful BFL. A skirt in progress! This linen one’s been cut out for ages (seriously, years) and I just finally sewed it up. Just needs to be hemmed. (Whoops, the waist elastic is a bit unruly! Need to tack that down.) New yarn! The awesome people at Lantern Moon sent me some […]