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Good morning, my friends. There were plenty of distractions yesterday, but I managed to make some progress on all fronts. We left early to take the truck into the shop to have its air conditioner repaired. It wasn't finished by day's end, and so I expect we'll pick it up sometime today. Also on today's agenda is to get my hair cut and colored. It needs it badly. I hate sitting for that process of coloring, but I'll be glad to get my overgrown mop tamed.

When we got home from taking the truck in ...

Good morning, my friends. There were plenty of distractions yesterday, but I managed to make some progress on all fronts. We left early to take the truck into the shop to have its air conditioner repaired. It wasn't finished by day's end, and so I expect we'll pick it up sometime today. Also on today's agenda is to get my hair cut and colored. It needs it badly. I hate sitting for that process of coloring, but I'll be glad to get my overgrown mop tamed.

When we got home from taking the truck in ...

I do love cinnamon rolls. I try not to bake them very often but I’ve been wanting them. Vince is trying cut way back on carbs so I knew he wasn’t going to want them so this afternoon, I made half a recipe of cinnamon rolls. I made them small so I got nine of...

Good morning, my friends. It's looking like we're in for several days of hot weather. And if that wasn't bad enough, we're also under an air quality alert. Sounds like a good day to hide out in my refrigerated basement sewing room. We've been running the air conditioner, and that always sends the basement into freezer territory. When I'm in the basement, I'm wearing a hoodie, despite the hot temps outside.

The kitties were outside for a while. Smitty had to come inside to cool his tummy furs on the wood floor.

Good morning, my friends. It's looking like we're in for several days of hot weather. And if that wasn't bad enough, we're also under an air quality alert. Sounds like a good day to hide out in my refrigerated basement sewing room. We've been running the air conditioner, and that always sends the basement into freezer territory. When I'm in the basement, I'm wearing a hoodie, despite the hot temps outside.

The kitties were outside for a while. Smitty had to come inside to cool his tummy furs on the wood floor.

For the first time in ages I felt pretty good yesterday – still a bit of a limp and numb toes on my right foot but not as bad as they were and I finished off the day with my first walk outside in almost 2 weeks for enjoyment and not the car for a […]

I’m not sure if my canning has gotten better or if I’m easier to please in my old age or if cross stitching matters more than eating and I’ll put any old thing on the table and be happy about it. Today I had planned to fix chicken shawarma and homemade pita bread for lunch....

Our weather has turned wintry again, with snow on the ranges.  That didn't last long, when the rain arrived, and some wind.  It is still winter after all, it's just that we have been spoiled with calm, mild, sunny days for ages. Luckily, there is a heat pump installed, so there is clean, efficient heating here in my little home.  And it has been perfect soup making weather too.  My latest batch was pumpkin and kumara, so nice and tasty, with added pieces of fried onion and bacon, after it was whizzed smooth.  This was made in the ...

Patrick was off golfing, and I was sleeping in. When I got up, I decided I wasn't in the mood to do anything. So, I started laundry. 

Patrick got home and made the comment that I said I would make the zucchini bread of grandmothers. I told him I could do it tomorrow, but NO, we were going to be gone tomorrow, and zucchini doesn't last long, so the sooner I do it the better. UGH He also reminded me about something else that needed to be done, so I had to do that first. Not my day ...

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Monday. It was a busy and lazy day yesterday. I had baking to do for our dinner with the neighbors last night. My first stop of the day was to bake this Skillet Cherry Cobler for Two (times two). This was one of my mother's friend's recipes, and I've scaled it down to one-third its original size so that I can bake it in a 6-inch cast iron skillet. 

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Monday. It was a busy and lazy day yesterday. I had baking to do for our dinner with the neighbors last night. My first stop of the day was to bake this Skillet Cherry Cobler for Two (times two). This was one of my mother's friend's recipes, and I've scaled it down to one-third its original size so that I can bake it in a 6-inch cast iron skillet. 

Good morning, my friends. Day by day the place seems a little more back to normal. We've moved from the big jobs to the small jobs, including little bits of housework. 

Yesterday's small gardening job was to tie up the echinacea into a tidy bundle and let the light shine on the plants hidden underneath. If you look closely at this image, you'll see black spots on the flowers. Those a bumblebees. They aren't aggressive, but I put on long sleeves just in case. You can see the size difference between the pink echinacea and the ...

Good morning, my friends. Day by day the place seems a little more back to normal. We've moved from the big jobs to the small jobs, including little bits of housework. 

Yesterday's small gardening job was to tie up the echinacea into a tidy bundle and let the light shine on the plants hidden underneath. If you look closely at this image, you'll see black spots on the flowers. Those a bumblebees. They aren't aggressive, but I put on long sleeves just in case. You can see the size difference between the pink echinacea and the ...

It is less than three weeks from the turn-in day for entries to the Mountain State Fair, and I am in the process of getting it all together. This year, the turn in day is September 1, the earliest it can possibly be. The first thing I did was to register online for all the categories I entered in previous years. I may not actually have an entry for everything, but it is far easier to turn in an unused entry tag rather than try to add an entry. I printed out the entry list, and started looking around for ...

With the garden needing lots of attention and canning, I’ve put aside making menus for the week. I need to make a good bit of room in a freezer so I’ve been taking three things out, putting them in the fridge and cooking them in the order they defrost. I take all three out and...

Good morning, my friends. We're expecting a hot day today. If I'm going to pick a bucket o' weeds, I'll have to get outside early. After picking yesterday's bucket, I estimate I'm about halfway around the house. A few more days should get the job done.

We had a delightful afternoon yesterday. Erik and Mae invited us over for a backyard barbecue. We also got a tour of Erik's Weber barbecue collection. You might remember when we toured his barbecues back in May. Over the summer, he added a few more and made some ...

Good morning, my friends. We're expecting a hot day today. If I'm going to pick a bucket o' weeds, I'll have to get outside early. After picking yesterday's bucket, I estimate I'm about halfway around the house. A few more days should get the job done.

We had a delightful afternoon yesterday. Erik and Mae invited us over for a backyard barbecue. We also got a tour of Erik's Weber barbecue collection. You might remember when we toured his barbecues back in May. Over the summer, he added a few more and made some ...

I am happy to report that Lemon Twist is almost finished! When I finished ripping out all the bad stitching (see my post Quilting Lemon Twist), I did some trouble shooting and discovered the top thread was not seated into the tension discs. How it jumped out is beyond comprehension, but there it was. I re-threaded the machine, did some test stitching, and all looked good. But I was nervous, and stopped to check the stitching multiple times on each replacement row and through the end of the quilting. All was well.

I removed it from the longarm, and trimmed ...

Good morning, my friends. There was a red sky this morning. I happen to know it isn't because a storm is coming. I know this because Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding Willamette Valley are under the first ever extreme heat advisory. Hot weather will arrive tomorrow. I suspect what we're seeing in our red sky is from wildfire smoke.

Good morning, my friends. There was a red sky this morning. I happen to know it isn't because a storm is coming. I know this because Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding Willamette Valley are under the first ever extreme heat advisory. Hot weather will arrive tomorrow. I suspect what we're seeing in our red sky is from wildfire smoke.