You can see it's nearly March, how did that happen, because the State extension people are out with their list of Banned Botanicals.
Quite a few of these around here, which I see when I'm out walking to the pond. Some are escapees from cheap mass landscaping, some were planted before people knew better, some just barged in.
There's a date by which you have to eradicate them if they're on your property and by which nurseries have to stop selling them if they ever did.
I doubt if this is the whole list, just the most likely.
So Know Your Enemy is a sign of spring to our extension crew.
And while I was knitting and eating breakfast, cheese muffin, and idly checking what's new on YouTube, I found Ash LG, making a surcoat.
Ash is a larper, always into creating historical costumes, but regularly remembering the keen followers with less skill than Ash.
So here's my summer sewing future
In previous summers I've handsewn skirts and a couple of sleeveless lined surcoats will go with them a treat, with a cap sleeved top. I have skirts and tops, now to check fabrics around the place for surcoat purposes. This is where my portieres find themselves conscripted into use. One is batik cotton, one Indian sari silk, and there are sheets..
You see the complete notes needed to do this including translating cm to ins, she's a Brit. I remember as a teenager making a thing like this. I also made several in the 70s to go with matching short skirts. We called them tunic sets and thought we were all that.
Meanwhile I'm dealing with having over-ordered eggs, by making a spinach quiche using five of them. With onion, garlic powder, shredded cheese. Started on top of the stove then baked in the oven, in trusty castiron pan. Amazing how spinach cooks down.
And here's lunch. I didn't cook the spinach ahead of time, just tore it up and added to the caramelized onions. Then thirty minutes baking and it's done enough for my taste.
Happy day everyone, spring might soon get here, after maybe a couple more snowstorms, we never know in March.
