The clouds cause got moved on too we're expecting brilliant too mutual coldness weather condition for this weekend. Yesterday, the skies were grayness too overcast, no dubiety made worse past times smoke from the California fires. It was difficult to come across whatever smoke against the grayness skies, but my lungs were feeling it. Sue too I got out for our Fri morn walk. We were glad for dry out weather, fifty-fifty if the skies were gray. Here are simply about things nosotros saw along the way.
We get-go crossed paths with these two...honking furiously. They were non happy to come across us.
Hey! You there! Get away from our fence. I'll boot your @$$!
Their neighbors to the left were also honking furiously, but they were less interested inwards approaching the fence to vociferation at us. I sort of similar those "tuxedo" geese. And don't you lot suppose that chicken feels giddy penned inwards with a bunch of foolish honking geese?
And that was the concluding film I could cause got with my indicate too shoot camera. My battery went dead later that. Oh no! What volition I do? Enter the iPhone camera, which I don't ordinarily similar for taking pictures of the landscape. They tell the best photographic idiot box camera is the i you lot cause got with you, too hence it was my best photographic idiot box camera for the morn at least.
When nosotros turned the get-go corner of our loop walk, nosotros passed past times this pyracantha. The ones I've seen growing inwards California cause got cherry berries. Orange is the park color for these Oregonian ones.
Shortly thereafter, this guy crossed our path. His musical rhythm was virtually the size of a quarter.
In the ditch on the side of the road, nosotros noticed these galls that had fallen from a nearby oak tree. They were virtually the size of ping pong balls too in that place were thousands of them.
Walking on...holly berries...not to hold upwards out shown past times the pyracantha berries. 'Tis the season, later all.
Some apples...well past times their prime.
I liked this fence amongst the orangish leaves of the tree.
There is a minor winery here. Looking out across the valley, nosotros saw this.
Here's mortal with simply a picayune likewise much fourth dimension on their hands.
And nosotros passed past times this pretty autumn display of pumpkins.
And in that place were a surprising disclose of blooming things notwithstanding standing.
When I got home, I iced my human knee too worked on my boring stitching a picayune while. I was going to practice the French knots a few at a time, but I flora myself wanting to come across all the colors. Cake sprinkles...that's what I see.
After that, I finished the top-stitching on the latest block for It's Raining Cats too Dogs.
From there, I notwithstanding needed to practice simply about hand-stitching, but I'd almost forgotten that I was planning an Apple Cobbler for Two for Fri black dessert. This was hence good. It isn't difficult to make, but it takes simply over an sixty minutes to pose it all together when you lot add together inwards the baking time. It starts with 2 Gala apples, cored, peeled, too cutting into 1/4-inch chunks. With simply 2 apples, it doesn't cause got long. They were mixed with simply about butter, flour, sugar, cinnamon, too nutmeg too and hence heaped into 2 7-oz. ramekins.
They were tented with foil too and hence baked inwards a 400°F for 35 minutes. (I used my toaster oven for this.) When they came out of the oven, I gave them a picayune stir with a fork, too pressed the apple tree pieces downward below the liquid.
Then, I made the topping, which took virtually a minute. The directions volition tell you lot to operate this with your fingers every bit if working butter into flour for pie dough. It started out the consistency of newspaper mache paste, but too hence became to a greater extent than similar a moisture dough. I pulled it apart inwards picayune clumps too and hence dropped it over the surface of the ramekins.
Then it was baked simply about other fifteen minutes, too voila! It was bubbling when I took it out of the oven.
While I was waiting for those to bake, I was able to complete the hand-stitching on this block. And that in that place is a finish. One to a greater extent than block to larn on this quilt.
We had a dinner of leftovers concluding night, too and hence nosotros cued upwards our picayune cobblers. They were cool past times this time.
Add yourself a minor scoop of vanilla H2O ice cream, too you've got yourself i tasty dessert.
You tin find the recipe for these correct here. I'm totally loving these desserts for two. They satisfy my itch to bake, too my itch for something sweet. And...no leftovers, hence they exclusively blow our diet temporarily. Oh yes, too never heed that statement from a few weeks back. I knew that was a lost drive from the get-go.
Yesterday, I saw an interesting article virtually Choosing your Thanksgiving Pie Using your Astrological Sign. And who am I to fence with the stars? So, Mike too I are both Taurus. This is what it said virtually our best selection for a Thanksgiving Pie:
Pecan Pie! And I simply hap to cause got a recipe for Pecan Pie for Two. I'd tell that's a selection written inwards the stars. Maybe side past times side fourth dimension around...
So, today I'm dorsum to working on Mulligan Stew. I'll practice simply about other 5 blocks for that, too and hence I'm non certain what. I powerfulness larn ahead a fuse the side past times side Chicken Buffet block too simply salvage the top-stitching for when Big Bertha is dorsum inwards action. No estimates on when that volition be, which I'm finding extremely frustrating, but oh well. Nothing I tin practice but wait.
What's on your agenda for this weekend? I know simply about of you lot are buried inwards snow, hence rest warm too dry out out there, okay? Oh yes, too rest rubber patch you're at it.