Bex Cellabee

I'm presuming you mean barn and farm animals. I have three cats and a dog lol. But considering how much i hate mucking and noise I'd go with barn no animals. You can do much over time to insulate a barn into a home but cleaning chicken poop off my kitchen counter sounds like a nightmare

I actually think pumpkins can work. I had a pumpkin from the store I smashed by the front door. It regrew itself a year later and was the happiest plant in my garden that year. I think I watered it maybe twice from July to Sept. It only produced 1 pumpkin but that's mainly due to our short growing time and how late it took to get warm enough for the plant to germinate. I think with a tiny bit of irrigation certain varieities can work but you gotta plan for like desert heirloom kinda varieties. Not like french cinderella pumplin kinda varieties.

unfortuantely I cant experiment with squash this yr b/c I have a terrible squash bug problem and I want to give it at least 1-2 yrs to suppress.

Tomatoes. Apples are a itch to process and I am too v lazy of a gardener to manage even my one apple tree properly.

But I eat tomatoes in everything. Sauces soup ketchup flavoring for things, sub dried etc etc f

I would seed with clover either in early spring or early fall if you have mild winters. It's drought tolerant and feels nice and doesn't grow too high and fixes nitrogen.

Ulla Bisgaard wrote:

Jay Angler wrote:My Ulla, I've got an "upper B" and a "lower B", but assuming your mannequin is set for your size, I'm guessing the issue is the lower one?

If you've got enough fabric, designing and cutting new back panels might give you the best over-all fit - you'd get the extra fabric exactly where you need it. However, that would also be possible by making a new panel to inset in the center back area.

However, you say you're going  floor length, but do you feel you'll have enough room at the bottom for walking? Do you ever have to climb stairs at night? One of the reasons for the ruffle is to give that extra step length. If you think it's marginal, not stitching the side seams all the way to the bottom would be one solution.

I'm really glad you're daughter's learning from you! Starting with a project like this is a great way to learn some skills without the added stress of needing to wear it in public!

Thank you for answer, and yes it’s the lower B 😂 .
I don’t think I can add to the middle of the back, since that’s where a zipper or buttons are going to go, but I agree that cutting new back panels would be the best, if I have enough fabric.
Btw, I haven’t decided about buttons or zipper yet, but know that I need to soon.
Though, if I take into account needing more room for walking, then a long triangular piece, added to the sides, probably a better solution.
I think I am going to stitch it together lightly, so I can try it on and see if I need more leg room too. Trying it on, will also tell me, just how see-threw it is. This fabric are turning out a little thinner than I originally thought it would be.

As for my daughter. I am very happy that she wants to learn. I also did pick a nightgown, for exactly the reason you wrote, that it’s not something she has to wear in permies, so less stressful to make. She has worn the cloth I make for years, and we did try sewing together a few years back too. Then I just made the mistake of not sewing parallel. It’s a lot easier for her to learn it, if she can see me doing it first, and then try and repeat what I did. Last time, I just tried to explain it to her, and she just didn’t get it. This also means, that she will have made her gown all by herself, which is hopefully a confidence builder.

If it's your lower bottom I'd say add triangular godets on the side seams starting about midway up the waist so you get some flare at the hips but in a flattering shape.

I have been thinking about getting seed from them to start my perrenial medicinal garden area. It's nice to know they're local to me!

i'm exhausted.

so this year i'm not bothering with annuals/veg garden. If something self sows GREAT if not oh fucking well.i'm gonna throw a cover crop, maybe an annual flowers mix and chill out. i'm focusing on perennials this year. Filling out my tiny "food forest", adding more flowers, more vines, building structures and mulching.

I haven't exactly escaped it nor do I want to. But the pandemic has created a level of flexibility in my life i didn't know i needed. I work as a therapist at a group practice. I work on a hybrid model and set my own schedule. I work Monday 9-11am Tues in office 9:30- (whenever I decide to leave) and Wed-Fri 10-6 (I often end my days early but I take calls, read mail and am open for sessions until 6). Because i'm working from home 4/5 days of the week I have a lot of space to use my downtime for other things like visiting neighbors (helped with a neighbor's bees last week midday on a tuesday), gardening, walking the dog, cleaning, sewing etc.

I will NEVER again go back to full time in office work. It's just unnecessary.

thank you for this response! I think I'm my meals I'm doing pretty well, we tend to buy bulk ingredientsand stuff.it's snacking that is my culprit because I love to graze and I LOVES SALTY starchy THINGS. I find when I'm stressed i reach for the chips and bread and stuff. I am not obsessed with sweetbut savory oh boy that's where they get me. savory fast food,savory cchips, fried stuff etc

I guess I'm doing better than most but I'm a perfectionist

I really don't know where else to talk about this. I was watching a video today about vegetable oils and their negative health impacts and I just found myself feeling concerned and frustrated. I know logically that the best way to increase my longevity and overall health in life is through diet and exercise. I am not exceedingly unhealthy. I have a normal body weight, I exercise in some form (walking, gym, disc golf, gardening etc) 3-4 times a week, and I eat a mixed diet of processed foods and home cooked meals. But I just feel so utterly frustrated by just how HARD it is to eat an ancestral or ideal diet in this global industrial civilization.

If I were to be in my ideal health I would be eating essentially an unprocessed diet with whole grain freshly milled non rancid flours, no vegetable seed oils, no industrial foods etc.


But I cannot do that and the reasons are manyfold. First of all I have a history with a severe eating disorder, any sort of restrictive diet for me is very triggering and can create a re-incidence of anorexia. Secondly I have a number of chronic mental health issues that impact my ability to executive function including cooking for myself, preparing food, food textures/flavors, remembering eating meals etc. I REGULARLY struggle with low appetite and I can get in slumps where I just don't eat. Then add on the barriers of industrial civilization wherein healthy food is EXPENSIVE and time consuming to produce and make consumable. And there just seems to be secret terrible ingredients everywhere, it's hard to even navigate a grocery store without CONSTANT advertisement and bombardment, Farmer's markets are expensive as fuck, and food prep is exhausting after seeing 5+ psychotherapy clients in a given day. So even if i'm cooking at home it feels like i'm introducing toxicity into my life like through GMOs, unsprouted/rancid grains and flours, weird unpronouncable additives etc.

And trust me i'm already doing a lot. We eat grass fed beef and lamb that we buy in bulk. We cook as much as we can manage. We eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. I rarely consume sodas except as a treat a few times a month. I only eat candy here and there as a treat. I buy chips in small packages so im not eating several servings at a time. etc etc.

sometimes it's just an uphill battle to get ENOUGH food and energy into my body let alone the RIGHT food.

I am so frustrated by a system that is not evolved for someone like me. I have a hunter gatherer's brain. I like to meander, pick things up, talk, move around and spend as minimal time as possible being a "productive member of society". I wish I could go back in time and keep some of the aspects of modern life like medicine  while keeping the aspects of indigenous societies that we evolved for like walking, gathering, tight knit social communties, and real fucking food.