many days and bits and pieces

[tielan]

Finish the tattoo today (I hope; if I can take the pain).

STILL HAVE NOT TOLD MY MOTHER.

B1: "HOW old are you?"



I'll post a pic on social media once it's finished. Which will hopefully be late tonight. Going after work, since I wasn't bold enough to ask for a day off having taken three weeks off in October and taking a week off in December in addition to having the Christmas-New Year section off...

Oh man, I need to make my budget for the next six weeks.

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SB1 and SIL1 have had their kiddo! Now I have a niecelet (half-brother, HK), and two nephlets (SB1, Netherlands & SB2, interstate). All around Christmastime. All in other cities (two in other countries) which makes it hard to do in-person auntying.

Dang.

Nephlet 1's 1st birthday party was on the weekend, and he was a happy, interested little kid, pretty cheerful once he woke from his nap and had something to eat.

Anyway, Niecelet is 2, Nephlet 1 is 1, and now we have Nephlet 2 who is just arrived!

Guess I'm gonna have to make another RTW trip if only to see him! Maybe this time next year?

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Finally have pinned down someone to come mow the lawn. The previous guy promised he'd turn up twice and then didn't, and only responded when I contacted him. *sigh* I would mind the 'not turning up' less if they let me know first. Also the weeds are crazy all over the lawns, which I don't mind too much except that the damn things spread.

I also have some very nice flowers happening in the garden, though: some lilies, some poppies, a salvia or two.



The and nectarines have gone crazy, and I've actually managed to dig up some potatoes. Of a decent size for once!



Yeah, I know the second photo isn't potatoes. But the raspberry canes are giving us a decent handful every couple of days. Tasty tasty!

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I am in full scrap-quilt mode right now: all the scrap strips, all the scrap squares, all the simple-but-effective tops...

Just about to finish a Postage Stamp quilt top (trying to sew at least one block a day), and contemplating what I can do with all the still-remaining scraps in my scrapbox.

Comments

[senmut]

NICE gardening!

[beatrice_otter]

OOoooh, that tattoo is going to be cool!

[jenab]

That tattoo is going to look so gorgeous.

[ringsandcoffee]

That tattoo is beautiful!

[timespirt]

Can't wait to see the Tattoo finished hon. The raspberry's look yummy.

[lilysea]

Oooh, fresh raspberries! ^_^

*envious*

I've gotten raspberries home delivered, but most commercial raspberries taste like nothing :(

[eggsbenedict]

Hope the rest of the tatt went well, and congrats on a new extended family member :3

[aome]

Wow, you get raspberries early! I wouldn't get any until fully mid-summer. Enjoy!

And good luck with the tattoo session. <3

[hiddencait]

Oh man that tattoo is going to be stunning!!! And I'm super jealous of your gardening haul - we still haven't had a chance to get started on ours at the new place and it could get interesting with how sandy the soil is. We shall see!

[tielan]

Recommendation (although it may be too late if you've gotten snow/frost already): put down mulch/compost now for next summer. Anything that's cheap, that hasn't been sprayed with pesticides/fumigants/whatever, and which decomposes. NB: shredded office paper could work too, but you'd need like something green/nitrogen-y on top of it to speed up the decomposition process.

The winter weather will break down the mulch, and it will add nutrients/structure to the soil, even if it's sandy.

[hiddencait]

Ooo good to know! Considering I'm due in March, it's entirely likely the garden won't actually happen until year after next (le sigh), but that's still a really good thing to think about. We had a small compost bucket at the old house, but haven't gotten a new one here. That may be a goal/ask I can run by my husband for us to go ahead and get one ahead of time this year, so we have it all mixed up and good to go to add to the raised beds he's planning to build. That's the one bummer about us moving - the husbeast had JUST built me a gorgeous small raised bed garden with waist high beds in our backyard which was a project and a half the way he did. It of course couldn't be moved by the time he was done, so it got left behind. I've already told him the new garden DEFINITELY doesn't need to be that tall lolol, though with the increased wildlife in our new area, it will need the addition of a fence lol

[wpadmirer]

Your tattoo is going to be magnificent!