When I left you yesterday, I was getting create to operate on my embroidery. It's all finished right away except for the cry of the store at the really tippy top. Only...I ran out of embroidery floss on the floss bobbin I was working with. Continuing would hateful that I needed to unband a skein of floss in addition to endeavor to current of air it onto the floss bobbin without tangling it. Which seems to last impossible. I decided to hold off until this morning. I was truly wanting to teach at those flamingos, in addition to I didn't desire to pass the residue of the twenty-four hours untangling floss...with the assist of cats, no doubt.
Instead, I headed into the kitchen to brand the Spicy Dilled Carrot Spears. Along the way, I decided to feed the sourdough starters in addition to plough over them overnice build clean jars to alive in. They've been living inwards their one-time jars since nosotros got dwelling household from our trip in addition to the sides were all caked alongside sourdough boogers. I don't know most you, but I prefer a booger-free life, in addition to I figured the yeasties did too.
But hence I had the flour out, in addition to heck, I was going to last inwards the kitchen canning carrots anyway, hence why non teach some breadstuff rising? So I mixed upwards the dough for the Muesli Toasting Bread. When I made this in conclusion time, I used muesli from the mass foods department of the grocery store. It was hence good, I vowed to teach inwards again. Now...something similar 2 years on...I finally got closed to to it. This time, I used Bob's Red Mill Muesli, which happens to accept some raisins inwards it. This dough has both dark-brown in addition to golden raisins, dried apricots, dried cranberries, pistachios, in addition to hazelnuts inwards it. When I had the dough mixed up, it looked similar this.
It was supposed to ascension for an hour, but when I checked it, it seemed variety of pocket-sized in addition to sad, hence I gave it an extra hour.
In the meantime, I canned the carrots. Think of these equally carrot crack. Once you start eating them, you won't halt until they're all gone. I tamed 2 weeks worth of CSA carrots alongside this effort. You tin uncovering the recipe for the Spicy Dilled Carrot Spears correct here, in addition to don't last set off yesteryear the canning. You tin merely refrigerate them if you don't desire to teach to the problem of processing them. Your efforts volition last rewarded, I promise.
And, hey, equally long equally I was standing at that spot inwards the kitchen, I powerfulness equally good roast some beets for our dinner salad in conclusion night. This salad has roasted beets, caprine animal cheese, toasted pistachios, in addition to a dressing made from 4 tablespoons olive oil, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard, 2 teaspoons of minced light-green onion, in addition to some tabular array salt in addition to pepper. And, permit me tell you, that CSA lettuce is hence delightfully crispy. It's almost similar eating spud chips, but a lot less fattening.
Also inwards the middle of all this, I started dinner inwards the crockpot. By the fourth dimension I was finished alongside everything, I recollect every pot, pan, plate, bowl, spoon, fork, in addition to knife inwards the kitchen was dirty. Toward the halt of this kitchen marathon, the breadstuff was create to come upwards out of the oven. Here, Mike started begging to cutting into it similar a piddling kid. I was firm, although I variety of wanted to cutting into it correct away too. We delayed gratification for most an hour, which could truly last a novel footing tape hither at the Three Cats Ranch.
While nosotros waited for the breadstuff to cool, I finished upwards the in conclusion department of the flamingos. Here, I was sewing the in conclusion seam of the in conclusion section, in addition to what exercise you suppose happened when I was 5 inches from the goal line? Hm?
If you guessed that I ran out of bobbin thread, you'd last right. What makes this flush fifty-fifty to a greater extent than exasperatingly funny is that I was thinking of you lot at this moment. As I've mentioned before, I'm oftentimes walking closed to talking to you guys in addition to writing spider web log posts inwards my head. So inwards my Blogger talking vox I said to you, "And what exercise you supposed happened next?" And, BAM! It truly happened. My thoughts are powerful. Don't cross me.
So alongside all those goings on inwards the kitchen, I didn't teach equally far along alongside the flamingos equally I'd hoped. Today, for absolutely certainly in addition to certain, this volition last a finished quilt top.
Ann encouraged me to plough over it a dark halt border because I didn't role the dark anywhere else inwards the quilt except for the birds' beaks. This is what led to our disagreeing on the background stuff too. Her selection had dark inwards it, but the residue of the pattern in addition to colors variety of left me cold. Since I refused her commencement selection of background, she encouraged me to add together inwards the dark alongside a really narrow halt border. As I've been making the quilt, I've been thinking most that dark border. I was afraid it would last also harsh, in addition to hence I hung upwards the dark in addition to a whimsical dark stripe in addition to than consulted alongside the Retired Resident Engineer. We both agreed that the stripe was a piddling distracting. I was gear upwards to ignore the advice most the dark halt border, but Mike agreed alongside Ann. (Where's a proficient married adult man when you demand one?) I'll grudgingly acknowledge it looks better. So, okay. Black halt border, coming up.
And hence it was fourth dimension to cutting the bread. Look how pretty that is? Think of it equally a granola bar baked into bread.
This has merely 1 teaspoon of dearest added equally a sweetener, in addition to no added fatty inwards the cast of butter or oil. The exclusively fatty comes from a one-half loving cup of whole milk in addition to the nuts. But that didn't halt us...oh no. We toasted those sliced off puppies in addition to slathered on the butter. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. You tin uncovering the recipe for this correct here.
So, okay. It's a novel twenty-four hours now. We've had gorgeous weather condition all week, but it started raining yesterday. It was a proficient soft in addition to long soaking rain, which gave me a reprieve from watering for a distich of days. Erik in addition to Mae in addition to I were supposed to teach to the farmer's marketplace position this morning, but alongside these threatening skies, nosotros bailed on our plans.
In the ongoing saga of the squirrels in addition to the poppies, this happened. We switched out the large scale fencing nosotros had protecting them for some smaller scale chicken wire.
When I checked them yesterday, they were completely buried inwards dirt. They hadn't been disturbed at all, but they were covered over alongside soil. What's upwards alongside that, you piddling sh*ts? So, inwards 1 of his daily trips to the hardware store, Mike picked upwards some chicken wire. Hopefully this volition top away on them in addition to their piddling earthworks paws out of the whiskey barrel. Do you recollect they're intentionally trying to piss me off? Well, beware, you piddling fuzzy-tailed, marauding f*ckers. I accept powerful thoughts. Just sayin'. Don't cross me.