Donna Young

Donna is a retired homeschooler who intends to use this blog to syndicate donnayoung.org website updates and write about her other interests.
The Quilt Border

The Quilt Border

This border layout is close to the first one that I tried last year. I could write about why I chose this border layout over the second one, but I really don’t want to. I will just show a photograph of it and say that the border strips are pinned and this is about how […]

Back to the Quilt

Back to the Quilt

For me, it is time to work on a quilt again. I have a 7 day opening to work on it. Last year on June 21, I wrote a blog entry with photos showing where I was at with the quilt. The blog entry is here: As the Petals Unfurl. Shortly after that, I put […]

Waiting for the Tomato

Waiting for the Tomato

I’ve playing the “Is it red yet?” game since the first tomato started taking shape under its green spiky cap.

These are grape tomatoes and the ones that will ripen first. They are really putting out a lot of potential fruit. I am waiting…

Lettuce & Floating Row Cover II

Lettuce & Floating Row Cover II

The lettuce has grown quite a bit since the last time I wrote about growing it under a floating row cover. [http://www.donnayoung.org/blog/2008/05/30/lettuce-floating-row-cover/]. From the outside, the green of the lettuce shows through the cover.

I lifted up the back where the excess cover was rolled up and I gave the lettuce more growing space. While it […]

Helpful Homeschool Kitty Communitcates

Helpful Homeschool Kitty Communitcates

Our pet, Koko, the kitty on this page: Homeschool Musts for Kids (not really musts, just in fun) is a patient and helpful cat. Most of the time, around 95% of the time, he leaves one morsel in his bowl so that I will know what to put in his bowl. He is such a […]