It was form of a lazy, do-nothing twenty-four hours yesterday. H5N1 big snowfall does that to us. We spent the twenty-four hours watching the weather...mostly from inside...and nosotros were together with thus enthralled yesteryear the whole affair that nosotros sat roughly inward gape mouthed wonder. It's non the best await for either of us. Someone wandering inward mightiness mean value we're both laid upward for the "home."
Right later finishing yesterday's post, I went exterior to fill upward the plane feeders together with accept some pictures. I was glad I did because the Sun came out spell I was there, together with it didn't accept long for snowfall to commence falling from things. Follow me, together with I'll accept y'all on a petty tour. It's non similar every blooming thing, but it's something. Here's the front end door. You can't actually run into it there, but nosotros yet conduct maintain our wreath from Christmas up. I unremarkably locomote out it upward until Valentine's Day.
Glancing to the right, I noticed the birds pecking the seed from the ground. Several birds tin swallow from the feeders at once, but alone when they're full.
Quilt taking pictures together with fill upward the feeders, wouldja?
Here's our driveway. You tin run into where Mike tromped downward to the store to position chains on the tractor.
The snowfall was deeper than I thought, together with I didn't actually conduct maintain appropriate pes ware.
Turning around, there's the front end of the house. Looks similar the petty household on the prairie, doesn't it?
Turning straight roughly is our field. The showtime snowfall to become later the Sun came out was that on the struggle rails off inward the distance.
Here's Sue's together with my bench. Don't mean value I'll sit down today.
Worried birds.
Honestly, wouldja fill upward those feeders already?
I similar the agency the snowfall collected on the needles of this pino tree.
After Mike had the tractor chained up, he made Castilian coffees. It's a tradition roughly hither on snowfall days.
Edited to say I'm linking upward to the Wandering Camera today:
While he was doing that, I went exterior to measure.
We had some tiffin together with nosotros both took naps. It was fairly belatedly inward the twenty-four hours before I did anything quilting related. Mainly, I only got the auto laid up, tension adjusted, together with a few practise rounds of sewing. I'm using this YLI auto quilting thread inward both transcend together with bottom.
I similar this thread, together with I've used it on quite a few of my quilts. I similar the "natural" color, which isn't quite white, but it's also also low-cal to live on off-white. It's form of a gray-white.
Then I flipped the extra edges of the quilt dorsum to the front end together with did a petty practise stitching there. Here's my showtime endeavor at a bat. Not quite there, but slap-up for a showtime try.
Also, this petty ghost. I mean value he needs some arms.
And the i affair I'm certain virtually is that these opened upward blocks volition live on quilted amongst spider webs, together with and thus that's where I started. It was tempting to purpose a ruler to brand the straight lines, but spiders don't purpose rulers, together with and thus I didn't either.
I've been a petty worried how the busy textile on the quilt dorsum is going to look. As it turns out, I mean value it's going to live on only fine. There's plenty going on that the quilting (even inward a low-cal thread) isn't going to demo much.
That was every bit far every bit I got amongst the quilting. Today I'll larn to locomote filling inward the residue of those blocks amongst spider webs. Also, I demand to brand upward a practise piece. I conduct maintain an persuasion what to quilt inward the nine-patches, but I demand to practise before committing it to the quilt.
The alone other affair I did yesterday was to bake some other loaf of staff of life from the dough I made before inward the week. It was stiffer together with less floppy when it came from the refrigerator, together with that made it easier to shape.
I allow it ascension inward my proofing box for a dyad of hours. As the recipe states, this dough doesn't actually rise, but it increases inward book together with spreads out. It yet didn't brand a beautiful loaf when it came from the oven, but it was together with thus tasty.
I've been curious to run into how it bakes upward later several days inward the refrigerator. It tin live on left for upward to vii days, together with I'm on virtually twenty-four hours five here. Inside, y'all tin run into that this loaf developed the airy texture of sourdough, together with wow! It had that feature sourdough tang. It was actually chewy together with yummy. We liked it a lot.
I'm thinking I mightiness bake the terminal loaf inward a loaf pan together with run into if I tin larn a amend cast to it. I'll bake the terminal loaf tomorrow or the side yesteryear side twenty-four hours (whichever is twenty-four hours 7...have to cheque my notes). It had such a rigid sourdough season together with texture, right away I'm curious to run into how it volition live on inward a few to a greater extent than days.
As the Sun laid terminal night, the low-cal exterior was dramatic.
This morning, nosotros conduct maintain beautiful bluish skies together with sunshine. As the Sun rose, at that topographic point was a ribbon of pinkish clouds.
And right away that the Sun is up, the snowfall is absolutely dazzling.
So far, I've alone stitched my inchy for the day.
Now I'm laid upward to larn at the terminal of the Snow Globes block. I mightiness live on overly-optimistic, but I mean value I tin complete it this morning. Time volition tell.
Edited to say I almost forgot! Matthew made it to Republic of Guatemala City yesterday. It seems his flying was delayed out of Portland, but his connecting flying inward Houston was also delayed, together with thus no price done. Here's our petty What's App conversation from yesterday:
