Before I left to come across upwards amongst Erik for the Farmer's Market yesterday morning, our resident Cooper's hawk joined us on a tree exterior the living room window. I grabbed my signal together with shoot camera, zoomed agency in, together with caught nigh one-half a dozen pictures of him. These 2 are the best of the group.
I sat doing my slow-stitching for a spell earlier it was fourth dimension to go, together with he kept sitting inwards the tree. H5N1 aeroplane friend of mine tells me that Cooper's hawks similar to become after footling birds, together with our aeroplane feeders are simply below this tree. Methinks he had evil on his mind.
It seemed similar a expert fourth dimension to operate out my DSLR photographic idiot box camera amongst a telephoto together with effort to larn a proper pic of him. Of course, nigh the fourth dimension I had the photographic idiot box camera out together with ready for shooting, he flew away. The life of a lensman is total of disappointment.
After that, I took off for the Farmer's Market amongst Erik where I scored these pretty Montmorency cherries. In fact, in that place were 4 dissimilar varieties of pie cherries to guide from at this 1 fruit stand. I chose these because the shout out was familiar. And hither I idea I pie cherry was a pie cherry was a pie cherry. I didn't know they had actual other names likewise "pie." And, honestly, when you're talking nigh pie, who cares?
Several hours later, they looked similar this.
As I've mentioned before, when it comes to pie, I'm hitting or miss. This was sort of a close immature lady day. I had unopen to problems physically getting it into the oven to bake...not worth going into...and nigh fifteen minutes later, I heard bubbling together with sizzling together with realized the cherry juice was spilling over onto the baking sheet. No problem...I'm simply glad in that place was a baking canvas to capture the mess. But together with then I noticed the crust had broken together with fallen off the border (that's the component subdivision inwards the lower correct corner). I genuinely took the pie out of the oven thinking it wasn't too belatedly to create it. But together with then I was afraid I was alone going to brand matters worse. Right together with then together with in that place I told myself we'd swallow that purpose first.
Not to live on defeated past times a pie crust, however, I persevered. When I took it out of the oven at the terminate of its baking time, I used unopen to tongs to fish the errant crust out of the cherry juice together with stuck it dorsum to the border of the pie. Pie, produce non exam my patience, I said. Only inwards my thoughts you lot understand. Just because I beak to inanimate objects all the fourth dimension doesn't hateful I speak out loud to things I'm going to eat. So anyway...it's non a looker, but it was pretty darned tasty for dessert final night. It was a footling soupy, but goose egg a footling vanilla H2O ice cream couldn't fix.
And that pretty much took upwards the whole of my day. I did complete off my footling mystery piece. I bespeak to complete the binding, together with and then it'll live on ready for mailing off to my friend. I promise she likes it.
When I know she's received it, I'll present you lot the whole thing.
Today I'm sandwiching quilts. Mike together with I volition laid upwards the saw Equus caballus tables, together with I'll sandwich the quilts I possess got waiting inwards the quilts-to-be-sandwiched pile. There are 4 inwards all. Matthew volition live on dorsum hither inwards Portland side past times side month, together with I desire to complete off the Quiltemala quilt thus he tin possess got it amongst him when he heads dorsum home. Also, I'm going to effort to larn a start on side past times side month's monthlies.