Day Eight

Not much going on today which is just fine with me. I was able to do some reading and picked up one of the books I'm working through, Trustee from the Toolroom, by Neville Shute. Bob stayed home as he wasn't feeling very good this morning. I think the pollen count must be up in our area once again as I have been feeling extremely tired and sluggish lately. My throat was a bit on the rough side but now, it seems to be targeted at my eyes - they sting and itch constantly.

I did get a chance to do some more sewing. I had this quilted wallhanging that I didn't much like as I didn't think it was visually interesting enough to hang on a wall. So, I ended up designing this bag from the quilt. It's good and beefy mainly due to the fact that it is constructed as a quilt - three layers of materials. I put a hard bottom on it sandwiched between two layers of the quilt material. There's a drawstring at the top and it's large enough to use as an overnight bag. I still have some of the quilt left over so I'll probably make a small wallet-like purse

to store inside. It was fun and I'm glad to have found a use for the unfinished wallhanging.

The weather seems as though it's cooled off a bit. Hopefully, this will give the vegetables the impetus to perform another growth surge as they tend to stagnate when it gets real hot. I know the lettuce likes cool soil. I'm planning on doing another planting toward the end of this month - cool vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, peas and some of the herbs do well under cooler temperature conditions. I just need to make sure I have enough growing time between the interval when I begin to plant again and the predicted first frost date. The tomatoes in the greenhouse are doing fantastic and I hope to be able to keep them going even after the first frost hits.

I'm going to mulch and newspaper parts of the front lawn as soon as autumn hits so the lawn will die and compost through the winter to be ready for spring planting. I'm so tired of lawn!!!! Next spring a front deck project and the relocation of the roses are in order. Looks like I won't be going back to work anytime soon - oh darn.