We've been nether an "air character alert" for the past times several days, together with it continues this morning. While I was sitting reading email, I noticed the Sun ascension through the trees...a deep cherry orb.
Ordinarily, nosotros tin give notice run across the mountains from our place, together with fifty-fifty on a hazy day, nosotros tin give notice run across downward into the Tualatin Valley. Here's an ikon from a previous year.
Today, this is what nosotros see. I'd similar to say it's a foggy day, but that is smoke, my friends. Choking smoke. (Edited to say that simply later posting this, I saw an article inwards our local newspaper that stated our air inwards Portland is correct at i time alongside the most polluted inwards the world!)
So, every bit long every bit I was outside, I took a pic of the pathetic eaten off tomato. It's grown to immense proportions now, together with it's loaded with cherry tomatoes. This is the Dominicus Sweet variety. They're orangish together with really sugariness when they're ripe. You tin give notice run across i of the ripe ones inwards the lower right-hand corner of the ikon below.
They disappear off the vine every bit rapidly every bit they appear. I'd blame the squirrels (and I do), but mainly, it's the gardener picking them together with eating them every bit fast every bit they ripen.
The kitties were mystified at my joining them for this small footling stroll.
Smitty likes to gaze out at his empire.
Sadie is ever on the move. It's difficult to larn an in-focus pic of her, fifty-fifty inwards outdoor lighting with a fast shutter speed. She's a footling feline dynamo.
Generally, I receive got to grab her when she comes inwards for the day, tired, together with laid for napping.
She moves a lot slower then.
Smitty needs to do a footling piece of employment on his muddied feet. He's manifestly been earthworks for gophers.
Backing upward to yesterday morning, I stitched plenty to deed my hoop to the terminal position.
This is all that remains. Possibly, I'll complete it this morning. When the remaining stitching gets this close, I oftentimes pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension working on it until it's all done.
Most of yesterday was spent inwards the kitchen. I made us a mutual frigidness dinner of ii salads. Mike requested this Seafood Pasta Salad with Lemon-Saffron Herb Dressing. It's a solid unit of measurement favorite. Some of the ingredients are a footling spendy. I come about to receive got a furnish of saffron gifted to me past times a solid unit of measurement fellow member later they traveled to [someplace] where saffron is cheap. I maintain my furnish nether lock together with key. (Not really.) You could go out it out, together with I doubtfulness the salad would endure i iota for it. Also, crab tin give notice live on expensive. I've ever used canned crab, together with no i complains.
Also, this Fire together with Ice Salad. It was a practiced way to piece of employment some of our CSA veggies. My version hither has a yellowish bell pepper, ii large tomatoes cutting into wedges, a cucumber (peeled together with seeds removed to guess an English linguistic communication cucumber), together with sugariness onion.
Here's what's inwards the dressing:
Finally, a Brown Sugar Cinnamon Peach Pie for Two. I've linked to the recipe I adapted from Southern Living. To construct a pie for two, you lot take this footling pie plate from Anchor Hocking, together with thus cutting the recipe to a footling less than half.
Peaches are thus dainty correct now, together with I picked some upward at a local create stand upward the other day. I had to because when I reorganized the pantry shelves the other day, I came across 3 jars of this from terminal summer. Hmmmm...what receive got nosotros here?
Oh yes...I almost forgot nearly you!
Well, somebody's gotta swallow it, right? So, I looked around for "somebody" together with saw entirely Mike together with me together with the kitties. And the kitties said, "Ptooey, peaches! Gack! Put some birds inwards there!" So, that simply left Mike together with me. So later our (ahem) low-calorie dinner of ii salads (pay no attending to that mayonnaise behind the curtain) nosotros sliced that babe inwards half, added some vanilla H2O ice cream together with thus doused it inwards Peach & Brandy Sauce. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
We're ever glad it's a pie for two. Otherwise, we'd receive got some other while correct later finishing the rootage one. The peach together with brandy sauce is practiced simply on H2O ice cream...no pie required. But don't receive got my give-and-take for it. You tin give notice construct your own. Peaches are practiced correct now, together with the recipe is correct here. If you're non into canning, I don't run across whatever argue it couldn't live on frozen or stashed inwards the fridge.
So, let's see...the entirely other matter I did yesterday was to complete off the binding for the Summer Holiday quilt, together with that makes a finished quilt. I absolutely dearest this quilt from Lynette Anderson. Her designs with the truthful cat together with the domestic dog (hers) are adorable.
Here's how it looks from the back.
So, I receive got a solar daytime with non much on the agenda. There are a duo of housekeeping chores to larn later since I've done zero for the past times several days, but mainly, it's going to live on NBS (nothing but sewing). I'm staying within where the air is by together with large prophylactic to breathe. Today I desire to larn to piece of employment on the orangish blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I've been working away cutting the dark together with white strips. There are in all likelihood plenty cutting at i time to larn on with things.
What's on tap at your house today?