Fabric purchases- I've been pretty good, but there have been a couple of drive by fabric drop offs in the last 6 months and I did have to purchase muslin to use for the foundation for DC's tuffet. I used all but a few tiny scraps of the muslin making the tuffet, so this may or may not count. But, I did break down a few days ago and bought some rulers I've been wanting.
Leta- sorry to hear about the jobs, I like your description of the therapeutic value of weeding.
Our garden is both earlier and later than usual. The early warm spell caused our blueberries and the pear tree to bloom very early-- just in time to get a hard freeze
so we weren't expecting to get any berries this year, but somehow they managed to produce after all and we will have some much earlier than usual (if the birds don't get them) too early to say about the pear. That early warmth followed by the freeze also got to our fig but it has begun leafing out on all the branches so we may end up with figs this year since it didn't die back to the roots.
We have had collards and kale throughout the winter, just put a covering over them once when we had wind chills in the single digits. We had to put in new strawberries as many of ours didn't make it through the winter. Our okra is in, but not doing much thanks to these odd cool days we're having. We've got some of the summer squash in and there's a squash on one already. Beans are in, but we need to plant more. Some cukes are in and all the eggplant is in, but need to put the tomatos and peppers (bell and chili) in--these rainy days make it hard to keep up! And, our neighbor across the street gave us a bunch, so now we need to come up with more planting beds and some place to put the melons. I moved the collards to a nice spot around the pond so that made room for some heat resistant greens and more okra....
Rob