Monday the kids were out of school still. I decided to do my freezer cooking using Once a month Cooking - the two week version. I don't do it all in one day. I went shopping Monday, did the chopping and prepping, and cooked the whole chickens. Then the next day I prepared all of the chicken meals in the evening and the next day the beef meals. Now I have two weeks worth of dinners planned and in the freezer.
The weather is still warm and I we had a beautiful sunrise or two. The tree photo was taken around 6 a.m. The bright spot is the moon and the lesser a planet (probably venus). My pictures never do catch what the eye is seeing.
Work wise, I started off the new year doing a charity quilt, a tithe of sorts of my talents.
The red and white quilt Jackson is using currently needed washing. I guess it had never been laundered before, because a few of the blocks turned pink. Max doesn't seem to care much though.
Been waiting for some fabric that I ordered before the new year to start my Block of the Day project, That Town and Country Quilt. It finally arrived Thursday. Sadly I forgot to order about three of the fabrics for the background so I went to a local shop on Friday and picked up some that would work.
Friday afternoon I took CG and a friend to the mall. He wanted to spend his Christmas money on a skateboard and so he did. I found myself in Williams-Sonoma looking at cookbooks and since they were on sale.... got 4.
Saturday afternoon CG had a saxophone lesson out on Sparkman, so since we were passing the guitar shop he had to have a ukulele. Impressive how he has been able to teach himself some songs by looking up the chords on line. However, he is driving me nutso playing the same two over and over and over....
I spent part of Sunday working on That Town and Country. I got four blocks put together. They still need to be stitched down. I haven't decided whether to straight stitch around them and make windows that way or to do a blanket stitch and make windows out of another piece of fabric. Oh to have such worries. As my son would say, first world problems.
Until next time.
The weather is still warm and I we had a beautiful sunrise or two. The tree photo was taken around 6 a.m. The bright spot is the moon and the lesser a planet (probably venus). My pictures never do catch what the eye is seeing.
Work wise, I started off the new year doing a charity quilt, a tithe of sorts of my talents.
The red and white quilt Jackson is using currently needed washing. I guess it had never been laundered before, because a few of the blocks turned pink. Max doesn't seem to care much though.
Been waiting for some fabric that I ordered before the new year to start my Block of the Day project, That Town and Country Quilt. It finally arrived Thursday. Sadly I forgot to order about three of the fabrics for the background so I went to a local shop on Friday and picked up some that would work.
Friday afternoon I took CG and a friend to the mall. He wanted to spend his Christmas money on a skateboard and so he did. I found myself in Williams-Sonoma looking at cookbooks and since they were on sale.... got 4.
Saturday afternoon CG had a saxophone lesson out on Sparkman, so since we were passing the guitar shop he had to have a ukulele. Impressive how he has been able to teach himself some songs by looking up the chords on line. However, he is driving me nutso playing the same two over and over and over....
I spent part of Sunday working on That Town and Country. I got four blocks put together. They still need to be stitched down. I haven't decided whether to straight stitch around them and make windows that way or to do a blanket stitch and make windows out of another piece of fabric. Oh to have such worries. As my son would say, first world problems.
Until next time.
