There's fourth dimension to teach off 1 to a greater extent than postal service earlier nosotros caput on downwardly the route this morning. I'm non certain if I'll receive got cyberspace access at our adjacent place, but I exercise know we'll locomote without electricity. Sometimes lack of electricity is the deciding factor. Before nosotros left on this trip, Mike installed solar panels on transcend of the RV. It makes sense since the destination was to caput for sunny in addition to warm locations. I'm non certain if they'll set plenty accuse on our batteries to run the laptop for whatever extended catamenia of time, in addition to thus it's all an experiment at this point. We receive got a generator too, but it burns propane, in addition to that tin locomote expensive. It volition all play out over the adjacent calendar week or so, in addition to I'll receive got a amend persuasion of my abilities in addition to limitations blog-wise.
There is a quilt store nearly 25 minutes away, in addition to I'd wanted to catch when nosotros arrived. Then, nosotros ended upwards driving all over the identify to teach medicine in addition to attempt medical attention, in addition to nosotros haven't actually had a unmarried twenty-four hr catamenia to relax since nosotros left home. The quilt store sounded less appealing than but hanging out. The twenty-four hr catamenia wasn't wasted though.
Everything was already out for the snowflake blocks, in addition to thus I made upwards the adjacent one. You'll recollect from my postal service yesterday that the reddish ink from my ink-jet printer didn't launder out when I rinsed away the Sticky Fabri-Solvy. It's a pocket-size department of the whole, designating the size of the blocks. (The pattern includes snowflakes inward all dissimilar sizes, in addition to I'm doing the largest ones.)
Knowing that, it was unproblematic plenty to cutting that tiny department from the printed page earlier applying it to the background.
And at that spot nosotros go...ready for stitching.
I'm enticing myself to operate on on alongside the large sew together mitt quilting on Mulligan Stew alongside the snowflakes. I'll sew together on the big-stitch projection for a week, in addition to thus teach started alongside the adjacent snowflake, in addition to but maintain switching dorsum in addition to forth. Even though I think big-stitch quilting is the correct alternative for Mulligan Stew, I exercise non relish this process, in addition to thus I need some incentive. Here's where I left off before, in addition to where I'll begin upwards 1 time again this morning.
The kitties enjoyed having us habitation for the day. There was lots of fourth dimension for snuggles, lap-time, in addition to napping. Smitty likes these seats, which are heated.
Sadie curled upwards on her window seat. Also, yes, that is a red, white, in addition to bluish RV through the window in addition to across the route from us. No persuasion what would motivate someone, but it takes all kinds of people to brand a world, doesn't it?
We'd planned a variety of celebratory repast for our New Year's Day celebration. But then, I was actually likewise sick to brand it. Before nosotros left to caput for the 24-hour chemist's shop that day, I started some Maple Baked Beans from scratch inward the crockpot. We also had a pocket-size Flame Craft ham to oestrus up. I'd intended to brand a 7-layer salad in addition to a bourbon pumpkin tart equally well. When nosotros got dorsum from the pharmacy, I was feeling thus poorly, I didn't teach the balance of it done.
So that was okay. We had a pork tenderloin thawed inward the refrigerator, in addition to at that spot were leftover beans from the outset night. Yesterday, I tried cutting downwardly my Bourbon Pumpkin Tart alongside Walnut Streusel into a tart for two. This is usually baked inward an 11-inch tart pan. I think mine is nearly 6-inches, but a picayune deeper than the 11-inch pan. I measured the book departure betwixt the two, in addition to thus cutting the recipe inward half. I ended upwards alongside an awful lot of streusel, but made a deeper layer because of the added depth. It was baked inward my RV convection oven, which gave the streusel a squeamish crispy texture. It turned out but fine.
It was supposed to bake 30-35 minutes. It looked laid in addition to done at thirty minutes, in addition to thus I took it out. It in all probability could receive got used the extra 5 minutes of baking fourth dimension though because the pie dough was a picayune underbaked.
Also, I made my mother's 7-layer salad recipe. And thus nosotros had pretty much the same repast I'd originally planned for New Year's Day, exclusively alongside pork instead of ham, in addition to reheated leftover beans. It was all tasty. I dearest RV cooking.
That's my homemade apple-pear chutney at that spot on the plate alongside the pork. Mike roasted the pork on his pocket-size Traeger grill. Yum.
Okay, thus today we're off on a brusk trip to a county campground along the way to Death Valley. We're limiting our driving days to or thus 200 miles this trip, in addition to it's squeamish to locomote on a to a greater extent than leisurely schedule. I'm feeling amend twenty-four hr catamenia past times day, although I think I've caught a mutual frigidity inward the middle of all of this. Still, I'm much amend than when it all started.
So, I'm signing off, hopefully for non likewise long. I'll locomote dorsum equally presently equally I'm able.