{"id":11743,"date":"2022-09-02T11:58:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:59:48","slug":"home-and-its-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/home-and-its-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Home, and it’s September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am done with traveling and out-of-town visitors for the summer. Relieved. It’s time to settle in and reconnect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took a very small stitching project with me. A pocket cloth sunflower like Jude makes. This is as much as I did before the thread got impossibly tangled. I can see a lot of room for improvement in my satin stitch technique. I never liked satin stitch from the time I first did it as a young girl. It was so hard to get the threads to line up neatly and I was so ready to give up. But now I want to improve. I really like the feel of these stitches and look forward to finishing and making more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The stitching I got done while in Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And here’s the garden that I came home to. It’s going to take awhile to catch up with it. So far I’ve harvested a lot of summer squash, green beans, and cucumbers. Sam harvested some tomatoes. The sauce-making and canning begins. The garden still looks pretty green, although the weather is still dry and starting to cool down a lot at night. We are participating in a garden tour event in our neighborhood tomorrow. I’ll have to try to remember what I’ve planted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of my favorite perennials are just starting to bloom. The bright purple New England aster – finally! I tried to grow these a few times without success and finally bought a potted plant, divided it, and now I have two huge ones. They flower really late. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New England Aster, starting to bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And another plant I purchased – a brown-eyed sunflower. It looks totally different from last year. Much taller and fuller. Playing around with portrait mode for the photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rudbeckia Triloba, brown-eyed sunflower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Really happy to be home! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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