Each morning seems a degree or two cooler. I washed sheets yesterday and we added another blanket to our bed when we remade it. And it was nice and cozy sleeping. The prognosticators tell us it's going to be a colder and wetter winter here. But it's purrfect now! Yesterday we stopped by the grocery store, UPS store to pick up our mail, and the drug store. Then I pieced backings for two quilt tops. Now I have just one more top to prep for quilting and I'll be set to finish up the last 7 quilt tops. Hope to get that backing done today and clean up my sewing room. I also baked some oatmeal craisin cookies. Today will be UGH-ly day as well - bathrooms, kitchen floor, vacuum. And I'll be washing towels and trailer sheets and putting them on the line. I had a quilt on the line yesterday when about 4pm we noticed smoke billowing from Vicki's house. We watched it for a bit as it got thicker, thinking, "Is this it? Did she finally set her house on fire?". Then we could smell the trash. She was burning it in her wood stove. Breezes were carrying the smoke and the smell our way so I ran to get my quilt off the line. It's always something.
TINA - hope your plum tree(s) 'take'! But like Jana said, they can be a real mess when they start dropping fruit. I think I'd rather have a FLOWERING Plum.
How was your drive yesterday? Where did you go?JANA - You just about have Karlie's quilt 'in the bag'! Is it going to be 12" blocks of just Minnie heads (and bows!
), or it it going to be one big Minnie? Or ?? I'm trying to picture it.LORI - I hope Jack and Wrigley enjoyed their special day! Scottie got a Frosty Paw for an evening treat, plus I sang "Happy Dog Day" to him while he ate it.
CAROL - Zoom gatherings are getting to be quite the thing now. And you seem to make the most of them! Your recipe yesterday almost sounded like it came from the old Betty Crocker Dinner for Two Cookbook. Enough so that I had to go look it up! I didn't find it there, but didn't it sound like it should have been? I have a recipe for pork chops, too, that is really good - season and brown. Put sliced potatoes in a baking dish, S&P, top with the chops, and pour a mushroom sauce over all and bake, covered and then uncovered. For the sauce, I saute onions & garlic, add a bit of white wine and/or milk, dash of Dijon mustard, & mushroom soup. Stir and heat until well blended. My brother, Jim, LOVED this dish, so I made it whenever he was here for supper.
Bill invited his 2 best friends from his exercise class (now in our garage via Zoom) and their hubbies for happy hour/campfire tonite. So, since the menu we served the other night to other friends was so well received, I'll be doing that again= BBQ'd meatballs, deviled eggs, fruit kabobs, cookies. I will also put out green olives and carrot and celery sticks. Guess when campfire season is over we'll be going back to the garage for our socializing and eventually adding radiant warmers. Anyway, this will be our supper tonite. Though now I'm hungry for pork chops!
What's your plan?
