Knitting Has Been Done

It feels kinda weird sitting here on a Sunday evening, not having to think about getting ready for work in the morning.  It's making me almost jittery, thinking I should be getting my lunch ready, or fixing the coffee pot, or going to bed...but I'm not.  I'm sitting here blogging and about to *gasp* start a movie or something.  I don't know what yet, but I'm going to watch something. 

Anyway,  this has been quite the busy Sunday as far as TV watching.  Let's see...I watched a few episodes of Dr. Pimple Popper, some episodes of JAG, some of Vacation House Rules, and a couple of Atlantis.  

And I watched my friend Marcy's newest Flosstube.  Do you know she has knit three emotional support chickens while my one has been languishing in a drawer waiting to be seamed?  Yep, and thus I was inspired to dig her out of what has been essentially her grave and get her finished.  

That, Gentle Reader, is exactly what I did.  

I had one little setback when I was sewing the second side of the stomach piece in when I got nearly to the end and discovered the sides were not even.  I ripped the whole seam out, then adjusted the sides so that they lined up, pinned them into place, and re-sewed the seam.  Once that was done, the rest was easy peasy.  

At least I thought it would be until I couldn't remember where I'd put the fluff stuff.   After tearing up the house, I eventually found said fluff stuff and the stuffing of the fluff began.  Here she is, all finished and ready to be emotionally supportive. 

I think I sewed the wattle on backwards, but at this point, it's going to stay that way.   Oh, well.  I doubt anyone but me would even notice.  

Before all of that even got started, I finished another charity hat.  

In other news, I finally found my garden twine and tied the first round of my homemade tomato cage.  

You may have to blow up the picture to see it, if you're into such things, I mean.  It's just green twine, so do what you will with that.  When I finally get my garden spot fixed up, I'll probably have about six tomato plants, so I found some on Amazon that you can put together in different ways.  I'm not going to order them just yet, but they're already in my cart.  

I'm thinking I might put a little fairy garden in one of the corner spots.  It'll be really cute, there. 

Also, I did a little research on hardening off seedlings, and discovered that I can do it much faster than I have been.  With that in mind, I left them out for four hours yesterday, and eight this morning.  It was early morning sun, so I figured they'd be OK with that more so than harsh afternoon sun.  

I brought them back inside and rigged up the lid of my greenhouse so they'd still get a little light.

I put the rest under this lamp, then switched out the bulb from a regular LED to a daylight bulb.  

I think starting tomorrow, I'm going to leave them outside all day, and ... well, I don't know what I'm going to do when I go back to work.  If we weren't expecting rain all next week, I'd just leave them out, but I don't want them to get pounded into mush.  Also, the tips of some of the leaves are turning brown, and I think that means I'm overwatering them.  So, I'm going to cut back on that, too, and see how they do.  

Oh, maybe I'll dig out that old baker's rack and put them onto the front porch!  I need a new baker's rack, by the way.  The old one is almost rusted through in spots...Hmmm, off to Amazon...

I'm going to have to start doing something with this orange mint, too.  It was struggling a bit, then I moved it to the front porch and it's perked up quite a bit. 

Maybe tomorrow, I'll cut some and start drying it.  Or maybe I'll make me some orange mint tea.  Who knows.

For now, I'm off to google fairy garden ideas. 

Laters.