It took about 30 minutes this evening with 4" containers, a spoon, and a couple of scoops in my home-made mix of potting soil to transplant seedlings from the starter trays with little 1" holes into the larger pots to grow larger before putting them in the yard. And I also planted another starter tray with flowers to plant around the garden.

I probably spend $25 on seeds this year, but I have so far repotted about $50 worth if I bought these bedding plants at the nursery. There are plenty of other seedlings in the starter tray that will go directly into the ground soon, so total I'll probably save myself about $75 to $100 on plants. I still have to get my tomatoes, the ones I like are hard to find as just seed.

Moonglow was down today and we looked at the sewing stuff I'm moving around, and she gave me a useful tip on thread. Since she's sewing costumes that sometimes are put under quite a bit of strain, there is no point in using old thread because it turns brittle. With an old spool of white she picked up the loose end and gave it a tug. It snapped easily. No point in keeping those old spools of my Mom's, they're past their prime. I'll do that test on the spools and toss the old ones. Who knows what I'd have used them for, but even if I was making something relatively passive like a quilt, if it snapped in the machine I'd have to keep re-threading the machine. I love it when there are these exchanges of information! It's not just parent to kid any more. :)

She needed a couple of cookbooks for paper for a food class she is taking. They have to be pre-1975. I have some really old ones, several that they talked about in her class (the Fanny Farmer books used to say they were from the Boston Cooking School, etc.) So I sent her home with one from the war years in the Puget Sound area (think of all of the items that were rationed - that tells a story right there!) and one that came with some kind of product promotion for desserts from the 1950s. We had fun looking through some of the others and I seriously think I could do a dinner party with people here just looking through some of these old books, laughing, and occasionally deciding to try making something. As long as I had a lot of the basics, or time to run to the store, I suppose we could do it!

Everyone ready for a spring weekend? March 20 is the Vernal Equinox.

SRS