Sunday
Jun152008
Happy Father's Day!
Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 11:15AM
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Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there! Especially my own Dad. :-) The photo above was taken when we lived on O'Connor Street out in East York. My mom's holding Jim, and Ruth is in the dark coat and hat; I'm wearing the lighter coat. I think that's our car to the left.
Looks like it's going to be a wet week. Makes for soggy walking but happy plants. Speaking of the garden, check out my lettuce seedlings:
They're actually starting to look like LETTUCE!
The squirrels dug up my marjoram and one of my Morning Glory seedlings (maybe it's heard the rumours), grr. All the recent rain has been washing away my carefully applied cayenne pepper.
(pause)
The squirrels had better leave my baby lettuce alone or else.
Thanks so much to Walter for helping Jeff dig holes for the new fence posts and our new tree yesterday. Every time I came out yesterday, Jeff and Walter looked dirtier. And frankly, cuter. :-) There's something hugely appealing about technonerdboys who revel in dirty outdoor work; give me rough and weathered hands over perfect nail beds any day (this applies to women as well as men, as far as I'm concerned). Thanks to Trish for lending us her husband (and son, who also helped!) for part of yesterday afternoon.
Went to a garage sale in the neighbourhood yesterday, and in contrast to my usual pattern I went to the clothes rack instead of the books, to look for anything I could practice altering. Happily, all the clothes were in good condition AND it looked as if someone in the household was around my size.
I picked up this vest for $1:
Slightly too big plus it's missing its buttons, but I figure it'll be good sewing practice.
The black jacket above will be somewhat more of a challenge to alter but I figure for $2, it won't matter if I screw up. I plan to take out the shoulder pads, shorten it, make the fit smaller. I might turn it into a vest if I mess up the shoulder alteration.
If the alterations work, THEN I'm going to paint something on the outside, and maybe even add some beading.
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Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there! Especially my own Dad. :-) The photo above was taken when we lived on O'Connor Street out in East York. My mom's holding Jim, and Ruth is in the dark coat and hat; I'm wearing the lighter coat. I think that's our car to the left.
Looks like it's going to be a wet week. Makes for soggy walking but happy plants. Speaking of the garden, check out my lettuce seedlings:
They're actually starting to look like LETTUCE!
The squirrels dug up my marjoram and one of my Morning Glory seedlings (maybe it's heard the rumours), grr. All the recent rain has been washing away my carefully applied cayenne pepper.
(pause)
The squirrels had better leave my baby lettuce alone or else.
Thanks so much to Walter for helping Jeff dig holes for the new fence posts and our new tree yesterday. Every time I came out yesterday, Jeff and Walter looked dirtier. And frankly, cuter. :-) There's something hugely appealing about technonerdboys who revel in dirty outdoor work; give me rough and weathered hands over perfect nail beds any day (this applies to women as well as men, as far as I'm concerned). Thanks to Trish for lending us her husband (and son, who also helped!) for part of yesterday afternoon.
Went to a garage sale in the neighbourhood yesterday, and in contrast to my usual pattern I went to the clothes rack instead of the books, to look for anything I could practice altering. Happily, all the clothes were in good condition AND it looked as if someone in the household was around my size.
I picked up this vest for $1:
Slightly too big plus it's missing its buttons, but I figure it'll be good sewing practice.
The black jacket above will be somewhat more of a challenge to alter but I figure for $2, it won't matter if I screw up. I plan to take out the shoulder pads, shorten it, make the fit smaller. I might turn it into a vest if I mess up the shoulder alteration.
If the alterations work, THEN I'm going to paint something on the outside, and maybe even add some beading.
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