Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Finishing up the first stranded slipper sock sample for the Winter Gazette today, then should get its mate knit, and determine if sizing it up and down is doable. Am also finishing up the last of the booklet printing, for now.

Am just waiting on another shipment of clear covers and spines to come in, so I can get them finished.

It poured last night, so I need to go check the tomato plants which are growing well out of the bounds of their cages. I joked with hubby that these plants need solid wood, 6' tall cages, not these dinky metal jobs, the garden center calls tomato cages - very large and heavy plants are these!

The zucchini are finally piping up a bit. They weren't liking that rainy stretch we were having - they like it hot and sunny.

The asparagus are ferning over, as they do, and the lettuce I replanted is coming up between the zucchini leaves. I put them there so they wouldn't get the blast of summer's heat.

And as the blueberry bed had lettuce in it last year, the second round of naturally reseeded lettuce is up. That's what happens when I don't get the plants out before they bolt - but one can never have too much lettuce, and there's plenty of room in the blueberry bed, as there's just 3 plants and they're young.

I'm starting to get a little antsy for our house shopping trip on the Cape. It's been 10 years since our last real vacation - that's a long stretch of endless work and responsibility. Even this one won't be a vacation, it's got a purpose attached, so lolling on the beach all day isn't in the cards, but getting away to a place that we love is, at the least, up-lifting. We're hoping the place hasn't changed too much in 10 years. I'll be sure to post photos then.

Hopefully, I can get the interior work finished over the next couple of weeks, now that the large printing jobs are almost done. Have 4 rooms and ceilings to paint, and also trim in 2 of those rooms, 2 closet doors and trim to paint and 3 carpets to clean. AND I still haven't been able to find any blue and white toile curtains on sale anywhere. I haven't time to sew up the 6 windows' worth of curtains that the kitchen and nearby hall require, but at $30 per pair of angled valances, ufda. Seems the black toile is *in* and can be had on sale, but not the blue. Black toile just won't do and I don't like it, regardless. Anyone know of a source for toile curtains that won't break the bank?