Check-In Post May 13th 2023

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I think my brain has gone AWOL. A while ago I almost posted the new challenge for one of my writing communities here by mistake o_O Good thing I caught the error in time.


I got some writing done, and then because it's actually dry and sunny today, I went out in the garden, thinking I'd cut back an invasive shrub I'm trying to get rid of. Instead, I found myself pulling weeds because I couldn't even see the shrub, it's buried under grass, sticky weed, two-foot tall docks, and rampant Brunonia, which is a pretty flowering plant but also incredibly invasive. I rue the day I got a few seeds from a friend because now the stuff is everywhere and I can't get rid of it. It's even growing on the compost heap. Anyway, I carted away 4 overflowing buckets of assorted weeds and plants. It's barely made a dent.


Also, my Euphorbias have shot up, I now have a forest of sturdy, 3-foot tall plants and had to pull a few up just to make a path through them. Thankfully they're shallow rooted and thick-stemmed so they aren't too hard to pull up.

[wiseheart]

Oh, dear! I have the feeling that your back didn't thank you for all that "exercise"!

[badly_knitted]

The gardening was a lot less painful than my physio exercises!

[darkcedars]

*didn't even make it to the shrub!* Yikes.

[badly_knitted]

It's there somewhere. Actually, it's in a number of places because it's one of those that roots whenever a branch touches the ground.

[darkcedars]

Ah, yes, I dug a bunch of baby forsythia up when I pruned that bush. Same method.

[badly_knitted]

I have rampant forsythia on the other side of the garden. Lovely when it flowers, but it rends to take over.