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YOP: Week 33

    I didn't do a whole lot of crafting this past week.  Its been very busy at work and very hot outside, so I've had little motivation.  I'm working on a project for the current swap I'm in so I can't show pictures yet of that project.  I did sew up a project bag for my "work daughter" whose last day with us was Friday.



She's a knitter with cats so I went with cat prints and her favorite color green for the fabrics and stitch markers.


    I pulled quite a haul from my garden yesterday.  I've been blanching and freezing green beans every couple of days and this is what I picked yesterday:


The peas are really coming to an end.  The beans are out of control at this point.  We've gotten a few cucumbers, they tend to be odd shaped but taste good according to my husband.  Pictured is my one and only eggplant.  I'm going to make eggplant parm tomorrow.  The cherry tomato plant in the topsy turvey is nearly done now and pictured is our first corn.  There is quite a bit more coming along.  I shucked and froze a little already.  I got a new tool to do it and it works really well.  The watermelon probably should have been left for another week.  It's so hard to tell until its cut, but it had really good flavor and alot of nearly mature seeds inside, so I think it was close.

    I went to the eye doctor Wednesday.  I decided to finally update my glasses after about 10 years.  I wear contacts almost exclusively but not that I'm doing the 24 hour shifts at Clifton-Fine I need my glasses if I get called at night.  I ordered them online for the first time ever.  It was very easy and much more reasonable than I was expecting.  I'm very blind so it's always so pricey, which is why I haven't gotten new ones in a decade.  I really hope I like them when they get to me.  There is a return window so that's good too.

    We went live with our new chemistry instrument on Tuesday.  It actually went quite well considering how big of a change it is for everyone.  I worked alone yesterday and other than being busy as all get out, I didn't have too many problems.  We're still getting some of the interface kinks worked out.  Our LIS is very archaic and doesn't have the functionality for what all we could do with the new instrument, and other things.  It is what it is though, sadly, the choice of LIS/HIS is up to administration and they just look at the bottom line.

    Oh, I almost forgot.  I finished that really colorful dishcloth:  Lizard Ridge Dishcloth

That's it for me this week.  

-Q

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