My son, Erik, gets to operate earlier the Sun comes upward these days. It was dainty to have this photograph from him showtime matter when I looked at my telephone this morning.
That's our beautiful metropolis taken from the due east banking concern of the Willamette River. On the left side of the image, y'all tin reckon the Fremont Bridge. Nice shot, Erik.
Heart & Home is meeting nicely. Yesterday I finished sewing the nine-patch blocks together. There are 32 of these.
From there, I had to settle on a stuff for the sashing. You mightiness recollect I purchased a dyad of yards of this stuff when I needed merely about dark on white for the dark in addition to white blocks of Rainbow Jubilee.
There are birds inwards 6 of the ix embroidered blocks for the quilt, in addition to therefore it seemed similar a adept choice. First, I sewed the horizontal sashings together. The nine-patches are cornerstones.
I had a few doubts close the plane stuff until I sewed the showtime row of blocks together. When I position it out, I was pretty happy alongside the expect of it.
You'll hold out happy to know that Smitty has recovered from the humiliation of the previous day. He went upward into the Clubhouse alongside no mishaps yesterday and, apparently, no hesitation. When he came down, he demonstrated how good stuff industrial plant every bit a yoga mat.
Before quitting for the day, I had merely about other row of blocks sewn together.
There is i to a greater extent than row of blocks in addition to and therefore ii borders earlier this becomes a finished flimsy. I'm hoping to larn it finished today, but I demand to brand a brusk encounter town in addition to also create a piffling housework. (I loathe it when life intrudes into my sewing time.)
Smitty has been requesting a piffling lonely fourth dimension exterior inwards the afternoons. He sits inwards the same location on the corner of our deck. He meditates for close xx minutes earlier asking to hold out allow inwards again. He uses the extra-long length of his tail to move on his toes warm.
Back inside, it's fourth dimension to written report dorsum to y'all on the trial for the pickled Brussels sprouts I made a few weeks ago. (Cue the Brussels sprouts haters.)
I was supposed to hold off ii weeks earlier tasting them, but I direct maintain absolutely no powerfulness to resist tasting something new, in addition to therefore I opened i appal in addition to tasted it correct away. It was okay, but allow me tell you, opening these early on volition yield a stinky product. They mellowed quite a fleck over the adjacent week, in addition to inwards the interim, I ate the whole opened jar.
So yesterday, I decided to endeavor i of the jars that had been given an appropriate menstruation of fourth dimension to rest. The stinky odor was completely gone, in addition to they tasted actually good. There is mustard seed, celery seed, in addition to turmeric inwards the mix, in addition to therefore they ended upward tasting a piffling similar a breadstuff & butter pickle. I'm pretty happy alongside this recipe. Mine was adapted from i I institute online. The online recipe seriously underestimated the break (and size) of jars I would need. In fact, the postal service where I institute it states these are done inwards half-pints in addition to and therefore shows a motion-picture demo that is clearly a pint jar. Oh well...whatever. So anyway...I'm non linking to that because it's incorrect on many levels. My recipe is dissimilar inwards several ways. Here's how I did it.
Pickled Brussels Sprouts
Yield: 6 pints
Ingredients:
iii lbs. brussels sprouts
five cups white vinegar (5% acidity)
2 2/3 cups sugar
1 1/3 cups thinly sliced onions
2/3 loving cup diced sweetness scarlet peppers
2 Tbs. mustard seed
1 Tbs. celery seed
1 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. scarlet pepper flakes
Directions:
Wash Brussels sprouts in addition to take stems in addition to fossil oil outer leaves. Boil inwards salted H2O for iv minutes (4 tsp. pickling tabular array salt per 1 gallon water). Drain in addition to ready aside.
Meanwhile, combine vinegar, sugar, onions, peppers in addition to spices inwards a saucepan in addition to convey to a boil. Simmer for five minutes. Using a slotted spoon, distribute the onion in addition to pepper pieces evenly amid 6 clean, hot pint jars. Fill jars alongside Brussels sprouts, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Cover alongside hot brine, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Remove air bubbles in addition to adjust headspace, if needed. Wipe rims of jars alongside a dampened build clean newspaper towel. Add lids in addition to rings.
Process 10 minutes inwards a boiling H2O bath. Add five minutes of processing fourth dimension for every 1,000 feet of elevation gain.
So in that location y'all direct maintain it. As I mentioned, in that location are a few things on my agenda every bit good sewing today, but I'm withal going to endeavor to larn Heart & Home sewn into a flimsy. I'm form of excited to reckon it all finished.