Yesterday's comings in addition to goings were a petty less hectic than Monday, but I'm yet getting caught upward on busy move things. My kickoff chore yesterday was to churn some strawberry H2O ice cream. All the element parts were made, in addition to thence I turned on the H2O ice cream machine, in addition to permit her rip.
After nigh fifteen minutes of churning, I added inwards the strawberries.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm...
When it was only about soft serve consistency, I pose it inwards a container in addition to thence popped it into the freezer.
We had it for dessert terminal night, in addition to oh my. It's no wonder I'm willing to cutting all the seeds off those strawberries because this is seriously proficient H2O ice cream. I'm using the recipe from Cook's Illustrated which, thankfully, person posted correct here.
With that done, my adjacent most urgent chore was to establish the sunflowers. Some of the earliest ones receive got grown tall, leggy, in addition to spindly. This year, I'm trying an experiment of growing them fairly closed together inwards 2 of the whiskey barrels where things haven't done much. This kickoff 1 is about the dorsum side of the house. It gets total Sun inwards the afternoon. In the pump is the adjacent batch of poppies.
It was a hot in addition to windy twenty-four hours yesterday. I worried that the current of air would blow them over, in addition to thence I staked them loosely to plough over them a fighting chance. Around the front end of the house, the residual are planted inwards the whiskey barrel close the front end door. There are some bulb flowers growing here, but they exclusively come upward up inwards the saltation in addition to thence popular off back. If the sunflowers brand a larn of it here, it mightiness move out twelvemonth after year. This 1 gets total sunshine at mid-day.
That takes assist of almost all the sunflowers. There were a few planted afterwards that volition larn pose into the soil this weekend. We're sort of betwixt blooming things correct now. The twenty-four hours lilies in addition to the echinacea volition last adjacent to bloom. For now, the sage is inwards bloom. Sage blossoms are edible in addition to proficient inwards salads.
Also, the lavander is inwards bloom, in addition to you lot know this agency only 1 thing: Bees Knees cocktails. There are lots of recipes for Bees Knees, but this is the 1 nosotros use. When the lavander is finished blooming, I'll collect the blossoms in addition to dry out them for adjacent year's lavander syrup.
Also, the petty rose bush has been allowed to bloom. It's really fragrant. One mightiness tell this is the upside to having coyotes around. They've kept the deer away from the roses.
Back inside, it was fourth dimension for some sewing. I had only 1 block to complete earlier adding it to the 3rd row of the quilt top.
When I set it on the flooring for its picture, Smitty walked across to brand sure enough at that topographic point were no loose chickens.
He was testing its napping capabilities when I disturbed him for this picture.
Sadie is yet appalled at how the squirrels are beingness allowed to roam gratuitous exterior alongside no cats to harass them. It's a crying shame, in addition to she is thoroughly fed up.
By the cease of my sewing day, I had all the blocks sewn together. Now, only the edge is left. I should receive got fourth dimension to complete it off today. I actually similar those random wonky stars inwards the sashing. They were thence uncomplicated to do, in addition to those could last used inwards whatsoever quilt.
After that it was fourth dimension to option upward our CSA portion in addition to elbow grease to wrap my caput about what should last done alongside things similar kohlrabi in addition to collards. I receive got ideas for both.
This morning, my kickoff chore was to strain the strawberries out of the infused vodka in addition to bottle it upward again. It's resting slow inwards the fridge now. Pretty, huh?
Today's tasks include a trip to the grocery shop in addition to getting a start on the laundry. When that's all done, I'll larn dorsum to the Chicken Buffet quilt. Things should settle downwards a petty after today. Still no give-and-take from Coyote Man. I'm hoping he'll move out hither inwards the adjacent twenty-four hours or two. I heard the coyotes howling inwards the middle of the night...close by...and thence 1 time again this forenoon from downwards inwards our woods. I'm almost sure enough they are living there.