No photos today as I make a vegetable soup from what I found in the refrigerator. Then I made a bulgur wheat dish with miso for flavoring. It doesn’t look like much, but it tastes good. I made cashew milk and cereal for breakfasts. We make steel cut oats for 3 days at a time and then just heat them. I have the Quinoa cooling to make a salad for Sunday.
In between, I supervised some yard work and did research on AI on sheep. It turns out that it is much more difficult than on cattle. There is also the expensive proposition of bringing in the semen and all the paperwork that involves. After talking to Washington State University, it doesn’t look like something I can afford.
So near the end of the day, I decided that I needed something fun and started this dish cloth. The yarn is pure Peruvian prime cotton from Juniper Moon Farms. It’s a simple K and P pattern from Janet Nogle
We get venison scraps in the fall for our dogs. They come packaged in the large banana boxes with 40-50# of meat in a box, frozen. So when we have room for separate packages in the “dog” freezer, we thaw it out and repackage it into daily portions. This was one of the morning chores today.
These are the big pieces of the new Daffodil quilt. There are many small pieces that will fill in between the major pieces. Today I cut it out and barely started sewing as you can see.
A threadbare sheet which has been replaced
with a set of this color (actual color is more champagne). I do not like buying sheets, so until they give up, we keep using them. When they give up, they get repurposed.
Why is it when one finishes off rooms, they just don’t get totally finished. At least this happens at our house. So today, we purchased switch covers for 3 rooms. It really does make the rooms look better. We were short these 2 screws, which we intend to pick up tomorrow.
This is a lamp my father made in the late 1930s. Somehow, the finial was lost in moves
I like to wipe my feet right before getting into bed (maybe because there is always dust or sand or ??). So I purchased a small rug to go on either side of the guest bed.
And a nice little waste basket to complete the basic furnishings of this room.
Then there was a little matter of towels and a rug for the bathroom. Again I used blue. Ewalda, I’m ready for you with your favorite color – blue.
Applique goes very slowly, so this much is done. Will work on the other blocks next week.
This is the quinoa salad for Mother’s day lunch. It has tomatoes, broccoli, orange pepper and seasonings.
Aren’t they just the cutest little lambs.
They were born last Sunday and will be nursing for some time yet, however, they were eager to try the weeds that I gave mom. They are so tiny that I need to fix an outdoor place they and mom can get some greens where they don’t get run over by the big sheep.
This was our view as we ate lunch outdoors today. The weather was beautiful! The extra dark “bushes” are really nettles that the sheep won’t eat, so we will have to weed whack them.
We went to Yoga this morning, but I did get this quilt finished this afternoon. It is small – only about 38″ square. I mostly did stitch in the ditch on the straight lines and added a few clouds.
