It was a solar daytime to residuum yesterday, although I managed to create total it upwardly amongst an assortment of activities. Of course, I root poked the Quiltmaker's Garden repeatedly amongst needles, turning 2 corners on the binding.
I'm exclusively nigh one-third of the way around the quilt, but the corners are one-half finished!
After that, I fed my sourdough starters, together with used the one-half that was poured off the white starter to ready some other 1 for baking. When I fed it together with left it on its own, it looked similar this.
When I checked it afterward inward the afternoon...about 5 hours later, I'm guessing...it looked similar this:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 piffling slow, but definitely alive. Always a skillful sign.
After getting that going, I went exterior to H2O the bloom pots together with took a piffling walk around. The root buds on the solar daytime lilies are showing themselves. These were a gift from Erik together with Mae many years ago, together with they are stars inward our garden of neglect.
And await over in that place yonder...the black royal iris are blooming.
In fact, quite a few of the colors are showing off correct now. Here's the apricot one.
Here's this two-toned one. I've seen this 1 much to a greater extent than blueish than it appears correct now. Something dissimilar nigh the soil, I'm assuming. The grass growing thick inward the bed must live on stealing its thunder.
Also, this pretty two-toned purple. It's inward the shade of a tree, together with therefore it was a piffling hard to photograph inward such weird light.
Walking on, I noticed these piffling micro-flowers on a bush that was planted yesteryear the previous possessor of our home. That was to a greater extent than than xvi years ago, together with therefore I'm clueless nigh what this is. It turns brilliant ruby-red inward the fall, together with therefore I telephone telephone it the burning bush. In the jump it gets these tiny flowers.
So, then, I couldn't set off whatever longer the tedious trouble of cutting the seeds off the strawberries. The strawberry H2O ice cream is worth it, together with if you lot must know, Mike's gut is worth it too. I'm ever at a loss nigh what to practice amongst the seedy sides. I've made strawberry shortcake from them before, but that way cutting fifty-fifty to a greater extent than strawberries for Mike. After cutting a pound's worth, I wasn't actually inward the mood. But together with therefore I got the stance to build some strawberry-infused vodka from them. Wouldn't you lot know it? I had a build novel 5th of vodka purchased simply the solar daytime before.
So here's how this is done: Put the fruit (it tin terminate live on anything) into a drinking glass jounce together with pour a 5th of vodka over the top. All of the fruit should live on submerged. Some fruits, similar raspberries, tin terminate live on used every bit is. Others, similar cranberries, demand to live on chopped upwardly a piffling bit. After that, permit it sit down at room temperature for xxx hours. Then, strain out the fruit together with funnel the vodka dorsum into its master bottle. Store inward the refrigerator. You tin terminate purpose it inward whatever drinkable that uses vodka, or...if you lot similar it...you tin terminate simply imbibe it over ice. Here's how mine looked when I started it yesterday.
It'll live on cook this flush when the Sun crosses the yardarm. I encounter Strawberry Lemon Drop Martinis inward our future. I've linked to a Lemon Drop recipe there. Just substitute the strawberry-infused vodka for the regular vodka. Yum. You tin terminate also practice this amongst gin or rum. I've exclusively ever tried vodka.
After that was done, I figured I'd practice some sewing. There are 2 projects I'd soundless similar to function on earlier the halt of the month. One is to build the 2nd row of blocks for the Shop Hop quilt. I did the embroidery for these a yoke of weeks ago, together with yesterday, I started sewing the blocks together.
We visited this store on our ill-fated trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. We were staying inward Estes Park when rains of Biblical proportions started up. That was the weatherman's term for it, non mine. You tin terminate read my spider web log postal service nigh it correct here.
It was a prissy piffling store on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. I enjoyed the shop, together with it was skillful to larn a lead a opportunity to view earlier nosotros had to run for our lives. You tin terminate read my postal service nigh the store right here. It appears it's soundless inward business, together with its website is right here.
We visited this adjacent store on our trip across the Montana Hi-Line. This is a huge wheat-growing region, together with therefore it was like shooting fish in a barrel to discovery a skillful regional print. I think the possessor of this store existence quite a delight.
You tin terminate read my spider web log postal service nigh it right here. It appears the store is soundless opened, but I don't discovery a spider web presence for it.
We constitute this adjacent store simply on the other side of Wyoming's border amongst Nebraska. It was a fabulous store for such a modest town. You tin terminate read my spider web log postal service nigh it right here.
This store was inundated yesteryear inundation waters when the Niobrara River flooded inward June of 2015. The store was shut for some time, but has since reopened. You tin terminate read nigh the flooding aftermath right here.
Each row of my quilt volition choose viii blocks, together with therefore I'm exclusively halfway through this row. The concluding 1 I did yesterday was this 1 from Orchard's Edge inward Bayfield, Wisconsin. This was a lovely store inward a gorgeous town correct at the border of Lake Superior. You tin terminate read my blog postal service nigh it correct here. I was quite surprised to discovery it opened on the Lord's Day when nosotros visited.
I chose this cloth because nosotros had visited a break of lighthouses along the Great Lakes, including Split Rock Lighthouse, pictured on the left side. Sadly, the possessor of Orchard's Edge passed away since our view in that place together with the store has closed. On a brighter note, the owner's boy has opened some other store inward Ashland, Wisconsin. You tin terminate read all the details correct here.
So that brings me to this morning. As usual..."Open, open, open."
The root affair I did was feed my starter. Forty-five minutes later, it looked similar this. I think it's ready! I set a plate nether its jar, simply inward representative it overflows. I'm non quite cook to bake the bread, together with therefore I'll simply proceed it going until Midweek when I tin terminate start my three-day baking project.
And, hey...let's churn upwardly some H2O ice cream, shall we? I absolutely honey my Cuisinart H2O ice cream maker. It mightiness mayhap live on the best modest appliance ever. The "custard" sat overnight inward the fridge to larn it every bit cool every bit possible earlier starting this process. Into the chute it goes.
After 10 minutes, I added the chunked upwardly together with directly seedless strawberries.
Five minutes later...YUM!
Now it volition larn into the freezer together with we'll choose it for dessert tonight. Is it fourth dimension for dinner yet? No? Sigh.
I'm using the recipe from America's Test Kitchens, which requires a membership, together with therefore I can't link to it. It's a fleck of a production to build it, together with it volition muddied every pan together with bowl inward your kitchen. Once a year, it's worth it. You tin terminate discovery lots of recipes for strawberry H2O ice cream online, however, together with therefore discovery 1 that looks skillful to you lot together with and therefore knock yourself crazy!
As for me, I'm going to larn poke needles inward the Quiltmaker's Garden for a spell to a greater extent than this morning. Makes me experience all squishy simply thinking nigh it.