When I finished canning for the summertime flavor (well over 200 jars this year), I'll acknowledge I hoped never to lay eyes on a Ball jounce again. But hither nosotros are a few weeks later, together with I'm laid upwards to burn upwards the kettle together with run amongst it. This weekend I'll last making cranberry pepper jelly, pickled beets, together with pickled brussels sprouts. The cranberry pepper jelly volition last a novel recipe. The pickled beets volition last my quondam stand-by recipe. Matthew loves them together with snags a jounce every fourth dimension he comes for a visit. Honestly, I'm non certain we'd encounter him if it weren't for the pickled carrots together with pickled beets. Whatever plant if it agency I larn to encounter my kiddos.
As for the pickled brussels sprouts, I'm all the same looking for the perfect recipe. I made them ane year, together with they were therefore sour they nearly turned our faces within out. Here are those puckery suckers now:
Yeah, I posted that film dorsum inwards 2015, together with I wasn't able to sense of savor them until the next week, together with so...never mind. They aspect proficient though. I tried them ane time again some other time, using a recipe that included to a greater extent than sugar. Those turned out every bit good sweet. This time, I'm trying a recipe amongst nearly a 1:2 saccharide to vinegar ratio together with some spices to give them a trivial kick. We'll encounter if that produces the perfect pickled sprout. Of course, I volition written report dorsum on all of it every bit before long every bit I exam it all out.
Sue together with I walked yesterday morn for the get-go fourth dimension inwards many weeks. We walked the Fanno Creek Trail. We establish ane identify that was impassable because of water, precisely nosotros were able to cross the route inwards a higher identify the flooded trail. Beyond that, it was smoothen walking until nosotros came to a identify where some habitat restoration run has been going on for the yesteryear twelvemonth or so. The sidewalk was unopen at that spot together with therefore nosotros turned roughly together with headed back. Along the way, nosotros saw this pretty tree.
Our showy leaves are waning inwards the residual of the underground area. I aspect they'll last gone within some other calendar week or two.
When I got home, I had every intention of getting dorsum to quilting Wind inwards the Whiskers. Mike came domicile early, every bit he oftentimes does on Fridays. He was napping upstairs where the mid-arm is located, together with therefore I decided instead to caput into the basement sewing room together with larn started on November's block for Tuxedo's Tales.
This is a Bonnie Sullivan pattern, together with it was originally done inwards wool. I've been doing the blocks from my ain cotton wool stash, together with this is what I came upwards with.
Everything is fused downwards now. The push eyes are non yet sewn on, precisely I've drawn inwards the lines for machine together with mitt embroidery. I'd rather hold back for Big Bertha to furnish earlier doing the top-stitching. Pfelicity does all the stitches I need, precisely she lacks Big Bertha's human knee elevator for the presser foot...a characteristic I detect especially dainty when I'm doing machine top-stitching together with machine embroidery. If it takes every bit good long, I'll complete it off amongst Pfelicity. My fingers are tightly crossed nearly Big Bertha.
So that's nearly it from yesterday. I aspect today's activities volition last canning from start to finish. If there's time, I'll larn dorsum to quilting Wind inwards the Whiskers. I aspect you'll detect me inwards the kitchen all day, therefore aspect at that spot first.