weekend chores

It's been pretty busy around here the last few days. Friday, I got my spinach, lettuce, and beet seeds planted, finished cleaning and drying the last of the few bottles of frit that got damp, and worked on organizing the shop, cleaned and moved stuff and made some space so we can work in there.

Saturday Grandgirl Autumn was spending the weekend at home and she and her boyfriend came out to visit. I moved more stuff around in the shop, made a new template and cut out more forms for the color samples, and finally hosed down and brushed and wet vac-ed up the dirty water from the floor of the room that has been my in-house studio. I had hosed it down before the tiles were scraped up but not since. It looks so much better and no longer has the ick factor when I walk on it barefoot. I've set up a small table in there so I can get some work done and it's where I'm working on the color samples for the drowned feathers but it's too small. I think I'm going to set my desk up this week.

you can see the path I made to the door with the mats

Sunday, I dug up all the wild blackberry vines that had sprouted since the last time I dug them all up, repotted a pot bound plant into a bigger but not big enough pot, worked on cleaning and putting away the things still left on the driveway...the paddles, a baseball bat, a small cooler, a pair of swim fins, the thing that holds my 3' wide paper, a couple of plant stands, a box of seashells and assorted other items, a couple of plastic bins, a mop, an extension cord, stuff like that and I finished setting up my samples and they are ready to fire which probably won't get done til late today. Maybe.