I am still working on these socks slowly. I am planning to get them done before the end of the year.
And the ducks are still under their red lights, but growing so fast. They do NOT like their photo taken. Tomorrow they are moving to a larger tub.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Snow then company
We awoke this morning to a postcard photo world. Just gorgeous!
After church, Kati, Zach, and his sister Tekoa came over for lunch and a great afternoon of just being together.
For lunch we had roasted potatoes, parsnips, carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower along with a wild rice dish and a tossed salad. It was an insane amount of delicious food and we were all too full to consider a fruit salad dessert. But I got so involved in company and food that I forgot to take a photo so you could enjoy it with us. I’ll try to do better next time.
Birthday/Christmas quilts
I think they liked their quilts.
This year the boys received a between gift. For two of them it was between the birthday and Christmas. For the one in blue – today IS his birthday, so it wasn’t a late birthday and early Christmas like the other two boys. They had told me their favorite colors this past summer and seemed genuinely pleased with them. They should have a good time with them as they can make a list of everything on the quilt or one can call out something and the other can find it. I’m sure they are imaginative enough to have fun with them.
Happy Thanksgiving
I hope the day was all you had hoped it to be and a great beginning to the holiday season. We have much for which to be thankful and that goof to remember as from now until 2015, it will be hurry, scurry. and easy to forget how much we already have.
We had a lovely family gathering at Jen and Bob’s place.
And then we got so involved, we forgot to take more photos.
I’m praying you had a great beginning to the holiday season as well. Will you do black Friday or stay home out of other people’s way?
Stockings
The intestinal bug caught up with me and I can assure you that is one way to reduce what the scales tell you. But I’m on the mend now, so I put together this pair of requested stockings.
It’s done and ready to box!
This quilt is for a foster child that has recently been returned to his mother, but still has a lot of contact with his foster parents. I offered to make the quilt before we knew he would be going home so soon. I just finished it and they will be able to give it to him for Christmas.
No-show day
Tonight is a no-show. I did work very hard to get the binding on a quilt that I want to mail Tuesday, so hopefully tomorrow it will be ready.
Slow, rainy day
After church, we came home and had delicate squash boat halves with Quinoa and kale in them. Last summer there were so many squash in the garden, we couldn’t eat them all, so I cut them in half, took out the seeds, cooked, and froze them. We added a tossed salad
For dessert, I had made a fruit salad with apples, bananas, mandarin oranges, and pineapple (make sure the pineapple juice covers the other fruits to keep them from getting brown) I drained the pineapple juice, put it in the blender with cashews to make a cashew cream and added it and blueberries to the salad. Delicious meal!
The socks are still progressing very slowly. I’m on row 27 of 65-70 for the leg part.
New ducklings on the block
Today’s addition to the family. The woman who had these has to find homes for nearly all her animals and was having trouble finding someone who knew how to raise ducklings this small and who would not eat them as adults. You know who was chosen. So these darling, messy little ones, who will be 2 weeks tomorrow, have come here to live. Now I’m praying for an early spring so they can go out with the other ducks and enjoy grass and the pond.
