Time for an I Like list for this week, starting with one of my older Valentine quilts. About 50" square.
Still listening to and reading the same books as last week, just finishing the toe of my second sock.
I did a bit of cooking ... don't enjoy cooking but do like to eat.
Fine Dining
one day we made BLT mac and cheese for lunch and it was so good. This was a new combo and I like diversity even in food choice!
we use the box mix plus some extra cheese, served on a bed of lettuce tomato (turkey)bacon
Let's play crime scene kitchen... what do you think I made with these?
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| carrots, raisins, ginger, apple |
My carrot salad
My carrot salad
grate carrots (this time a mix of orange and yellow ones)
mayo
cinnamon, dash of salt
grated fresh ginger and grated orange peel ( I zest all oranges and keep grated peel in freezer bags)
golden raisins half an apple in tiny mince
maple syrup to taste
dash of cider vinegar or lemon juice
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| warm greek potato salad |
boiled potatoes, minced red onion and crisp bell peppers, oregano S&P, lemon juice, mayo
Pizza
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| half left for tomorrow's lunch |
Sweet and Sour orange sauce
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| my recipe |
I am working on two challenges for the week's quilt making. More on Saturday's post
I am LOVING my little stash of cherrywood hand dyes so much I ordered fat quarter bundles here:
https://hobbyhouseneedleworks.com/collections/bead-kits
they not only have those fabrics, they have EVERYTHING to hand stitch with I also got a kit of an artist palette in beads, some floss, some beads.
I'm still getting word a day in Italian but now systematically learning French again, this time through our library and " transparent languages". It's challenging French, but the hardest for me is writing it with all the accent marks. Sheesh. I'll manage as long as native French speakers speak S L O W L Y.
Prompt
What’s one of the most exciting things you’ve done in life so far?
My answers involve travel. Growing up in central Florida, where it takes almost a day driving to escape the state, I had a need to go see and do. My parents saw this as a character flaw.
I met and fell for a Canadian man who asked me to move there to see if we might truly belong together. I put my career on hold, and moved to Edmonton. It involved a cross country road trip with a girlfriend, where we saw and did along the way. She left me there and flew home, and my Canadian adventure started. After a while we decided I should exit the country and apply for a work visa which I did. I became a nanny there for a bit over a year and left when I contracted meningitis and needed a longer recovery period. We never married but it was a grand adventure.
After I went back to Florida to recover my strength, my friend was living in Germany working as an USA army nurse, and I took a few weeks to visit her there. Traveling alone with a Eurail pass, with a rudimentary knowledge of German and French, I got on a train every day, got off and found a room and explored many places. I had adventures. I met people also traveling around Europe from distant places. I realized it was nice to set my own itinerary but lonely with noone to chat to at end of day.
I asked my husband this prompt and he said meeting me and marrying was the most exciting thing to him. He also found learning to do scuba diving and diving in exotic locales exciting. When I met him he was flying with the Hurricane Hunters (NOAH) out of Tampa, and I found that terrifying and exciting myself.
Watching online
so touching such love is a balm to my heart
https://youtube.com/shorts/CAHvj84EbN4?si=BjAJE8R-8dFscgMx
Milo's Memories
my puppy visiting Conn. with us. He loved travel too...
he loved ripping up old magazines. Here he looks guilty but that sound was so satisfying and fun for him. To the end, he liked ripping paper and the last thing he tore up was the paper towel tube.
How I loved his spirit
1 comment:
Love that valentine heart quilt and your crime scene kitchen! I think that travel probably represents my most exciting things done as well.
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