A Very Enjoyable Week

Lots Done And Lots To Do.

   It's been a busy week here at the barn, the veg garden is come alive with those first rows of green seedlings looking stronger every day and under the fleece there are many healthy new shoots on the potatoes, well protected from any late frost that linger in early morning. Lots of salad leaves are growing along with the radish and spring onions, so fingers crossed this summer will be spent enjoying many fresh salad lunches and if I keep sowing salads every few weeks we'll be lucky enough to have a good supply well into the coming autumn.
   The greenhouse is full to the brim with young plants waiting for their turn out in the kitchen garden, french beans, cabbage, courgettes, runner beans and a small army of tomato and pepper plants. The cape gooseberries are getting bigger ever day and will I hope in a few weeks be big enough to pot up and cane, there are pots of herb seedlings on every bench, some of which will go into the planned herb garden and the rest will be place at the gate for sale. Talking of selling at the gate, all we need to do is fix up a sign and we should be ready to place the first few plants out, maybe next weekend could be a good time giving us this coming week to make sure the bench is finished and also giving the plants another weeks to grow.
   On the bead side of things there are plans afoot to get an oxy con for me to use instead of the tanked oxygen, it would cost me around £250 to obtain one but by doing so will save me over £600 a year which is a huge amount of money for us at the moment, so I need to get selling a lot of beads to afford it, fingers crossed things may pick up in the next month, if not then I just stick with the tanks until we can afford to do otherwise.
   Yesterday I got to list the first of my lampwork stone effect pendants in my etsy shop and they were sold within an hour of listing, I was over the moon as I really like then, in fact I made myself one to hang around my neck on leather. I'll be making a few more today so hope to list those tomorrow or Sunday.
   This morning I need to empty the ceramic kiln, I did a bisque firing over night in which is a huge number of pendants, so I'm hoping to get most glazed and fired tomorrow ready to start listing on Sunday, it's the first of the stoneware items so at last I get to try out the new stoneware glazes, fingers crossed they will turn out as good as I hope.
   Ok cuppa time over and I need to get back to my torch there is so much to do and so many things to try today plus the hours sorting through the ceramics later.