quilting, parents, garden, dinner

A quilt top to be made this weekend: 3:10 to Mendocino

Parentals are coming for dinner, and I'm going to cook up the garden vegies I haven't yet managed to eat: broccoli leaves, swiss chard, and some of my new potatoes.

One of the problems with chard is that I'm not entirely sure what to do with it - it wasn't a staple of my childhood vegies, so I've never really cooked with it before. However, I planted a couple of seeds out and the things have gone monster-sized, sprouting leaves all over the place.

So I'm going to try this recipe: Swiss Chard With Honey Roasted Garlic.

Current garden pic:



Yes, it's a mess. no, I haven't worked out if I'm planting in circles or rows right now. But I'll need to work that out pretty fast because the cucumbers and pumpkin seeds have sprouted and are well on their way to CRAZY. The tomatoes, too - I swear, every tomato seed in my compost has geminated. EVERY TOMATO SEED.

Ideally, I'd really like to grow them up the trellis over the driveway...the one that doesn't yet exist because the builder hasn't gotten back to us. I might have to drop him another text and see where our quote's gone.

next day i am supergirl

Today, I finished off the modifications to the two programs my colleague was originally assigned. He had two weeks in which to do this work, and got half the modifications done on one program in that time.

I took it over full-time last Friday, although I pretty much started working on it on the Monday before that.

There'll be further modifications once the users take a look at the results, but at least I got it to "this is what the requirements were; I have completed this".

And it's one more thing off my plate.

Now if we can only get out of the "user acceptance testing" which the testers see as the opportunity to "perfect the system"...

This is the testing which never ends, it goes on and on my friend...

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Still haven't done anything on the Pacific Rim Secret Santa. Maybe tomorrow night...