Last week was a bit of a tough recovery from a three-day weekend. I enjoy the long weekends but they can be tough when it's time to go back to work
I thought Monday was Sunday, and Wednesday was Friday. You know the drill.
Because of all this discombobulation I didn't touch a lot of my crafty projects.
I did, however, touch the garden.
Oh, that sounds a bit obscene. Doh!
The garden is winding down and I've started pulling out plants. The first thing to go was the collard greens that I did not mean to plant. They were mislabeled seeds.
I also pulled out some tomato plans that were not going to have any more tomatose, along with a few zucchini plants.
I took a quick break and admired the grape vine that is now growing across the top of the garden fence.
Yup, that's all milkweed. I have a nice little patch of it growing for the butterflies. I didn't see many butterflies this year.
View of the garden from the table I have out there.
This particular day I was feeling a bit moody about the state of the garden, and went to an online garden group and whined about it. Then apologized for whining. The majority of the people who responded said they felt the same about their own gardens this year.
This was definitely a tough year for the gardeners.
Stock flowers? So far only one plant bloomed. I do know this is a cool weather annual.
Some of the fruits of the labor.
Looks like I will indeed get my salsa this year.
This, however, was for a small batch of spaghetti sauce.
No gazpacho, though. I was a bit bummed when I realized there would be no gazpacho this year. My coworker introduced me to it and I can't get enough of it when I realize I have enough tomatoes to make a batch.
This past weekend I completed what ended up being a longer than it should have been project. Staining the trinket boxes.
I held off on staining the boxes due to the weather. I thought the stain and poly would take way too long to dry if I did it when it was raining.
Boxes are now all done and ready to be finished off with any cross stitch I choose to top them with.
This past weekend I was a bit productive with the crafty stuff. I don't have pictures of everything, however.
The heel was turned on my second passenger princess sock.
The "Rest in Peace" sampler was started.
I'm not going to lie, this sampler has got most of my cross stitch attention since the start of the month.
This week feels like it is zooming by, despite only being Wednesday. Then I looked at the date and realized it was Sept. 11.
Sept. 11, you guys.
Not only is it the anniversary of 9/11, it feels like we are reaching the middle of the month in record time.
And yes, I do still remember where I was when I first heard about the plane flying in to the first tower. I was in the drive thru at the bank, before work. I was listening to The Bob and Tom show and Kristy Lee broke the news that the plane crashed into the tower and no one knew if it was an accident or intentional, or a big plane or a small one.
I've been under the weather since Saturday. I've been dosing myself with herbals teas and rest (when I can). Crossing my fingers whatever I have abates by the time Saturday morning rolls around.
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