Even without pandemics, I'm pretty much a homebody. I tin terminate recall when I was working total time, as well as a graduate student, as well as a woman bring upward of youngish children, when my calendar was packed alongside places to be, as well as things that were due. This was inwards the days of Franklin Day Planners (please tell me you lot retrieve those). Each fourth dimension I flipped to a novel calendar month as well as constitute the calendar empty, I vowed to choke along it that way. Then, niggling past times little, earlier the calendar month fifty-fifty arrived, the days filled upward flake past times bit, until they were but a crazed equally the months before. Now, I revel inwards these opened upward days of going nowhere as well as staying home...until I'm forced to produce so, of course. Then it begins to experience burdensome, as well as panic tin terminate laid inwards without notice.
And all of that to tell that my solar daytime yesterday was spent to a greater extent than frequently than non inwards the kitchen, but likewise inwards dread of the grocery shopping trip I needed to brand this morning. I wore a mask as well as gloves, but fifty-fifty alongside a olfactory organ slice on the mask, it yet fogged upward my spectacles as well as pose them at an strange angle that made it hard to read anything. I know all of us volition hold upward glad when these days direct keep passed, but I wonder if we'll e'er larn dorsum to where nosotros were. It'll hold upward a novel normal, as well as hopefully, if this e'er happens again, we'll hold upward ameliorate prepared.
So my moments of dread made it hard to concentrate, but I did brand my way into the sewing room slow inwards the solar daytime to operate on the side past times side block for Dancing Chickens & Flying Pigs. This is the sixth of 12 blocks, called "At Home alongside Dandelions." Perfectly plumbing equipment for how the yard looks hither at the Three Cats Ranch.
All the fusing as well as tracing is done. I demand forthwith to top-stitch the applique as well as machine embroider some of the lines on the house. My machine has a triple stitch that industrial plant specially good when the lines are straight. There isn't much paw embroidery on this block, as well as therefore I don't await it to accept long. After that, I'll larn dorsum to the paw quilting on Mulligan Stew.
My sewing solar daytime started therefore slow that it was dinner fourth dimension when I finished alongside the quilt block. We tried to give Matthew a happy birthday dinner, fifty-fifty if nosotros couldn't all hold upward together equally a family. We had the Overnight Lasagna that is a menage unit of measurement favorite roughly here. Also a Caesar salad, fresh baked breadstuff as well as angelfood cake, equally Matthew requested. I haven't baked an angelfood cake inwards years...at least...and therefore nosotros all enjoyed this. Matthew wanted strawberries on his, as well as I was able to honour some organic strawberries at a local vegetable stand. They were tasty, if a niggling on the tart side. Nothing a niggling to a greater extent than carbohydrate couldn't fix.
For I-Can't-Eat-Strawberry-Seeds Mike, I made a unlike topping. For this, the cake is brushed alongside Kahlua as well as the whipped cream is made from espresso powder, mascarpone cheese, confectioner's sugar, as well as whipping cream. This is i of Giada deLaurentiis's recipes. It was likewise supposed to direct keep a niggling sprinkle of cocoa powder, but I forgot that part. Looks good, no?
