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The fat fish repainted. I haven't finished his fin yet, but see how moving his gills back makes his head bigger? I still don't really like the secondary gills that come back from his mouth, maybe they'll just go away. Better fish.

I just found Pamela Hasting's blog when I was stumbling around looking for more information on Arlinka Blair. Nice find! I love that those wild looking dolls Pamela makes come from such an ordinary looking woman. She's working on a big doll that just fits under her 9' ceiling. yum.

Fat Blue Fish

This is fat fish. He started life as a blue butterfly fish cut out of 1/4 inch plywood and then his head got too small. Looking at him here, I know I have to repaint his head, what an ugly fish!

He's about 1.5 x 2 feet painted with acrylics and hung up in the wall gap I made last winter. Repaint job this weekend, yikes! His dorsal fin needs to have a dark outline and more detail so it shows up better, his head needs surgery and maybe more detail on his tail fin. What a funny looking fish!

moving right along

Values quilt with 2nd panel nearly done on the right. I did the left panel in strips but they were feeling stretchy. The right one is done in 9 patch style in squares instead of strips. Seems like seam allowances need to be more accurate in the 9 patches, but it's not so easy to stretch the triangles out of shape.
Oh yeah, the right panel was on backwards at the top. I didn't notice when I was taking the picture and was pleased that I had actually finished the right panel. Um. no. There's one more series of 3 strips or set of 2 9 patch blocks that need to be added on the far right.

In conclusion:

I pulled up the rest of the plants in the 2 bigger beds leaving some parsley and the onions then covered the whole lot with sea weed gathered off the beach this morning. I gave the strawberries and the cabbages a layer of kelp too. The strawberries are going crazy in the rain, next year should be a good berry crop!

Allow the raspberries to take over more, make them a frame to stand in.

Plant more: Lettuce and carrots (don't let the cat get the sprouts!) and chives (unless those 2 plants go crazy). Maybe put the carrots in buckets like the potatoes.

Plant less: broccoli, kale and turnips.

Plant some: flat parsley instead of curly. One or two zucchini plants. A sunflower in front where it's warm.

Use bone meal and nitrogen.

3 buckets of potatoes was enough, you really don't eat that much.

I'd really like to have a privacy fence/hedge across the front and have been letting the cherry tree babies grow as much as possible. Tossing rose hips in the side yard and letting the weeds/cherry trees grow there. patience.

The other day I turned the compost (sort of) and it was steaming in the rain! Real live compost happening in my heap o' vegetable matter! It was a crazy dry summer but the rain is making stuff happen.

I finally know where the secret-double-secret blue berry patch is! I just didn't drive far enough last time...yeah 26 miles to the bridge then another 1/2 hour plus on the logging roads. It's for friggin' ever to get there, but the berries are phenomenal. Bigger and more dense than Eaglecrest or the Dan Moller trail!