Tereza Okava

Rebecca Widds wrote:Used old bathtubs to make raised beds.

Apparently they are "unsightly" and they don't like "looking out over a junkyard".

To me that sounds like a challenge...... if it were me, I'd be out there right now rounding up junked toilets for a toilet garden

Nicole Alderman wrote:rotary sharpener

I only know because it's another piece of equipment I toted around the world with me (and never used...)

This is what I have https://colonialneedle.com/products/sharpeners?srsltid=AfmBOop2_mztSu06e_GAL4Zewp-6L2wUOVe7KaiVkbbPoz5imTUmoumr
but maybe save your money??
https://www.reddit.com/r/quilting/comments/qzwihw/do_rotary_blade_sharpeners_actually_work/

Nicole Alderman wrote:Do you have a rotary cutter, a fabric mat, and clear rulers?

I have a cutter, but none of the rest of the goodies (like the sharpener??? or the mat? no idea where these things ended up). I have made quilts but I think the rotary cutter was one of those things that I bought (when I worked at a fabric store) and carried around the world but never actually used, go figure. To be fair, I have some really, really nice scissors.
I just downloaded another audiobook, tonight is my craft night and we'll see how much I can just buckle down and do.

mullein doesn't live long, but may also be a prolific self-seeder, so you may be setting up generations of mullein.

Raspberry will absolutely take over the space, so consider how it can be limited or contained. We had it in one house and stopping it from taking over the world was a yearly chore.

I'd also consider finding a good microclimate space for the tangerine.
Depending on the size of the trees you may consider how they can be shaped and/or make a plan for future pruning for health and maintenance.

Nice rugs there Christopher!!

Christopher Weeks wrote:I cut them into strips,

Any suggestions on how to do this less painfully? I had a sofa delivered a few months ago and it came in a giant fabric sock, for lack of a better word. It's crap fabric (certainly polyish) but i'll be dagnabbed if I'm going to landfill it. But just thinking about cutting this monster (the size of my car) into strips has me on the floor in a puddle. Of course, it's knit jersey and doesn't tear (that would be too easy). Every so often I put on an audiobook and give it an hour but, damn. And I can use scissors with both hands, so I switch off.

A sunny day that started with a bit of garden time (tending to rabbits and documenting some weird bugs for my daughter the entomologist. For being in an urban center, my gick-free tiny urban garden attracts a crazy number of unusual insects).
The long beans are finally happy, the winged beans are just getting started, the cukes and bitter melon finally setting out female flowers, and the winter squash/pumpkins are reaching that scary point where I wonder if I'm going to wake up with a vine looming over my bed. We should have a lot of squash this fall!

Several quotes for work today. Work has been slow, which is normal for this time of year, but quotes mean the clients are out there.... despite the widespread alarmism in my field and "end of the world" feeling everywhere else.
One quote approved, a pot of tea here with work to pay the bills, and a 4-day weekend coming up next week. Life is good!

The green and brown guy is a longhorn beetle on a paulownia leaf (not in my yard!! no space for that.... taken the other day in a yerba mate orchard when i went on a hike).

The little guy is a flower or leaf beetle on a sweet potato leaf. The camera doesn't catch it but it was a metallic midnight blue, and its tiny feet were golden.

I have laminate and tile flooring in my house and we have three throw rugs down at any given time (bathroom, front door, and a thick one at the kitchen sink).

For all of these, I crochet and knit rugs from fabric strips (often from discarded clothes or fabric). I also crochet and (to a lesser extent) knit rugs from rope, twine, and string. The women in my family make patchwork rugs too. I probably have about 25, as I rotate them out every few days as they get dirty.

Edited to add:
some years ago I found this list and made a few of these rugs. they were easy enough for me to figure out, not being a crochet master. Also i'm using what I have, i figure if it comes out a bit bigger or smaller i'll make up for it in gauge or whatever.
https://www.yarnspirations.com/collections/patterns?filter.p.m.global.skill_type=Crochet&filter.p.m.global.project_type=Rugs&srsltid=AfmBOooGmLBIbq5WweAzEHrp4cc-fjWsAI-XTb6OgCFEFnzq2fETSuMZ

this one is especially nice https://www.yarnspirations.com/collections/patterns/products/red-heart-textured-waves-rug

this one too https://www.yarnspirations.com/collections/patterns/products/red-heart-diagonal-rug

Welcome, Jovian. What a great little house you've got there. Enjoy poking around the forums!

Multiple times a day. We have a small sink and don't use a dishwasher. We also have a minimum of silverware and dishes (and yes I have favorite bowls/spoons/plates, etc!! so they need to be clean.)

We don't wash as soon as dishes are dirtied, but I don't like to leave dishes in the sink overnight (why tempt vermin). During the day I might leave water in the sink or in a dishpan and let the dishes accumulate, especially if it's just me here in the house.

thanks for sharing this Bruce, what a great resource.
The site allows you to search by state to see where clinics will be held.