{"id":7545,"date":"2016-05-27T19:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T00:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=7545"},"modified":"2016-05-27T19:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T00:25:36","slug":"what-ive-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2016\/05\/what-ive-been-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’ve been up to"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tomatoes<\/a><\/p>\n

I spent much of today on that little project. Went to the nursery as planned, and spent quite a bit of time looking for and then choosing the plants I wanted, thanks to the helpful greenhouse manager at Grossman’s Garden Center<\/a>. I bought more tomato plants than I’d intended. Oh well. So I dug out a space to plant them all…18 feet long and 18 inches wide. Then I worked in five 5-gallon buckets of leaf mulch. Next I planted the tomatoes and mulched them in. They’re being watered with my drip hose as I type.<\/p>\n

I don’t know my grandfather’s method of planting by moon phase. I don’t even know my husband’s tomato planting rules, although I seem to think that the roots had to face north…or maybe south…or west. Obviously I don’t really know so paid no attention. I do, however know a little bit about companion planting, so put a marigold between every tomato.<\/p>\n

Let’s stay outside for a bit and check out some other blooms. I’ve been surprised by these parrot tulips. They started almost all white, moved through half white and half red, and are ending by being almost all red. Never had a tulip do that before. Also a nice long bloom time for a tulip.<\/p>\n

\"parrot<\/a><\/p>\n

The flowers on my tiarella (foam flower) are just sweet. <\/p>\n

\"tiarella<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve got some nice irises. The golden yellow was here when I arrived, the other three came from my country home. My daughter wanted them but never got around to planting them last summer, so in the fall I stuck them in the ground at my house. I’m glad I did.<\/p>\n

\"golden<\/a><\/p>\n

\"peach<\/a><\/p>\n

\"lovely<\/a><\/p>\n

\"bronzy<\/a><\/p>\n

I spent a little time at my loom. I’d planned out a rayon chenille warp for 3 shawls. As always, it’s a challenge to get it on the loom, and then to tension it completely evenly. It’s now on the loom, threaded, and sitting for the night. Tomorrow I’ll work on tensioning. Again.<\/p>\n

\"blue<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week I wove a few new baby blankets to replenish my stock. The warp is mostly cotton with a bit of bamboo; the weft is cotton flannel. <\/p>\n

\"cotton<\/a><\/p>\n

I got my sewing machine back (cost me $100) so did the hemming on these and finished sewing my packing bags. The motor was seized, apparently caused by a poor design that has so little tolerance in the ?bushing\/gear\/bearing? (can’t remember what the man said) that lint – a constant reality when sewing – gums it up completely and freezes it. I’m going to talk to them, and I’m currently assuming that if it happened once it’s likely to happen again, in which case I’ll probably choose to buy an old, reconditioned Singer or similar. <\/p>\n

Unrelated, I have a Jack question and am hoping that maybe one of my readers can help. I believe that he can’t regulate his body temperature well. He gets both cold and hot really quickly. Our current heat wave is hard on him. I’m not turning on my air conditioning for the dog. I can give him another haircut, but I don’t know if this will really help. I put an ice cube in his water bowl, but it doesn’t last long, and he doesn’t like to chew or lick them if they’re not in the water. Any ideas what might help Jack be more comfortable during the summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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