chicken three ways

Bought some breast real cheap over the weekend.  A new No Frills opened in our neighborhood on Friday and the local Co-op is finally reducing some prices.  Always a good thing.  When Breast are $2 each always stock up I say.  I will have to plug in the freezer in the garage for some stocking up.  There's bound to be more price wars in the coming weeks.

I found an eastern Mediterranian market....finally in the area and last week also found a mexican one.  Two for two.  It's about time.  Not only do I have a good supply of pistachio nuts, pomogranate molasses and flat breads galore, but chilpotle peppers in adobo sauce and many different gluten free artisan tortillas.  So plan on making some enchiladas as per this site with the gluten free tortillas.  And since chicken leftovers are always in demand around here I'm also cooking up three breast bbq style and three roasted in balsamic blood orange olive oil that we discovered at a new farmers market (it's been around for almost three months but we finally discovered it).  The oil is so wonderful one almost wants to dab it behind the ear.  And just smell it all day.  So I'm just making the tomato sauce right now with a bag of frozen leftover prob 3/4 of a large can of canned tomatoes from somewhere.  I discovered the bag just the other day in the freezer.  I added 1/2 a reg onion and 1/2 a red onion, both of which were languishing in two seperate baggies in the fridge, two cloves of garlic.  Some sorry looking baby carrots, about 1/4 of a red pepper, some oregano, about only a slice chopped up of chilpotle pepper in adobo sauce (for the kids around here) chili powder, cumin about 1 cup of chicken stock, salt and pepper.  Just cooking it down before I pulverize it all up with an imersion blender.  Before adding the other three chicken breasts into it.  All three batches are going in the oven till after lunch sometime.

Hopefully the enchilada chicken won't be too spicy.



Last week I made some interesting chicken and yams things....that's why the urgent need for a mexican market came about.  That darn chilpotle pepper in adobo sauce has always been something I've looked for but never been able to fine.  Having actually found the can, and seen what it actually looks like, I probably walked by it many times.  But I made the chicken instead of sweet pot's I used some baby yams instead.  And the recipe called for four peppers, I only used three and discarded all the seeds.  Fat good that did, I'm sure discarding the seeds did nothing to control the heat what so ever.  It was wayyyyy hot.  But good thing we had a container of yogurt around that we jazzed up a bit.  It was tolerable then.  But the g'kids had to have some leftover roast beef and potatoes from the night before.  Cause it was just toooo much for them..But the next day---wow, I ate all the chicken up.  I couldn't believe how good it was as leftovers of course with the yogurt sauce.  But still w-o-d-e-r-f-u-l stuff.  I thought I'd never make it again.  But changed my mind after eating some for breakfast, lunch and late nite snack.

I also used the leftover yam to make a loaf.  Didn't have quite the required amount of yam so added about 1/4 cup of apple sauce.  Also switched to coconut oil.  And I made it gluten free.  I mean, if it won't make a difference in texture I say make it gluten free.  there's toooo much gluten in everything anyway.  A little less is always a good thing. And since my daughter has gone gluten free I make an effort to make as much gluten free as possible.  And actually I lost some weight and my diabetic overweight husband lost some weight.  Without even trying we both lost weight.  Just in time for thanksgiving dinner (which was also gluten free since that family that hosted it has a mother---asin my sister, that is gluten free) and since it's always a given that I must be skinnier than my sister.  Well that worked out just fine.  Still skinnier and still taller hahaha.....

Well the sauce has to me sauced and the 3 different chicken breasts won't get in the oven by themselves.

....until later then,

well so much for that - seems my oven isn't big enough for all this and once package of breasts was opened the count changed from 9 to 11.  So even a better deal.  So froze five breasts for another time, and only did the enchilada chicken and the blood orange olive oil and blackberry ginger balsamic.  Also sprinkled it with some roasted chili & tamarind my current favorite spice mixture.  Can't get over how wonderful this chicken combo smells. Yummmmmy...

Get yourself to http://www.bluedoorcalgary.com/ and get some infused olive oil and balsamic vinegars from heaven...

Trip to the library

Well I've been away from this for a bit.  Don't really know why.  I had great intentions, took many pic's, but that's about as far as I got.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Well I finished 

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

If ever I was a non believer...and complete and utter atheist - well this book certainly did nothing to dispell any of those leaning.  In fact I've become an ever bigger nonbeliever if that is possible.  Bible...pshhhh.  No point into delving into that topic ....it could get ugly.

So today I picked up a couple things on the reserve shelf with my name on them.

I am  a huge fan of the radio show and look forward to all the books

I think I've reserved this one before, but had to return before the due date.  

Really don't know why I reserved this one...I've been reading about her lately so that's probably why it was reserved.  Maybe I'll learn something

Another one that I don't remember why.....I hope there's a story involved

I hope this one has some purpose to being published.

What's for dinner?

Slow Cooker Chicken Philly Sandwiches

found it here....a great new site I just happened upon

and she apparently copies it from this site

sorry to use the same photo...mine's still in the crock waiting for everyone to get home.

I've added coleslaw loosely based on the one here and I still have some of those pickled onions left over from the pulled chicken dinner last week.  They will probably go well with this here chicken.

Also made some chicken veg soup on friday that is leftover so I doctored it up with some kale, half a zuc, some sweet onion sliced, more veg stock and some julliened pea pods.  Looks promising.  And I don't care that the "boy child" won't eat anything green.  I didn't make it for him anyway. So there!!!

un-garden

Downton Abbey

Well I finally got to see season three....and I'm heartbroke.  Poor Mary.....
I may have to go into mourning.   I can't believe I waited all this time to finally get up to speed just to have to live through yet another death in the family.   First sybil now this.... WAs it really necessary.

too much of a good thing

Good use of the golf umbrella.....can't take it much longer....two + weeks of rain.  Enough already.

A room of my own

I'm sitting here on the couch, I've been here since a little after 4AM because....once again I got woken up from what probably was a very nice sleep by someone sleeping next to me.  Grrrrr I can't remember the last time I slept through the nite.  If it's not hot flashes from hell ...it's my husband and his damn cell phone and his insomniac watching stupid youtube or cnn or some stupid movie.  And the damn lite from the phone wakes me up.  Why can't he be a normal person and get out of bed and come into the living room and watch TV instead of on his stupid ass phone,.  One of these days i'm just going to have to ......I don't know.

But no....it's me that's on the couch and it's 5am...and he's snoring on the bed.  Asshole.  I can say that cause I am pissed off.  So now I'm probably going to be in a crappy mood all day.

One never appreciates a bedroom of your own.  I sure didn't anyway.  And I only had one for a short time.  It was back in 1976 to 1977.  That's it?  No wonder I miss it.  It never had it for very long.  What with sharing a room with my sister, then some roomate before we got a two bedroom apartment. Then I met my husband and he moved in, and never left.  Sure there were those 20 plus years of him working out of town for two, three days...sometimes a week, every week.  But it's still a shared room......with his stuff ....taking over my stuff.  Call me greedy, but i WANT a room of my very own.  With my own girly bed,  Maybe a princess bed, Maybe a frilled up daybed with pillows all over the place.  There have been many times that I have come into our room and had to rescue my favorite sham/pillow from under my husbands head.  He even uses my girly pillow shams behind my back.  That really pisses me off.

A couple weeks ago I got pissed of and actually slept on the couch in the den kinda room on the love seat.  Cause we were disagreeing (arguing) about the room temp.  I like it on the cool side, and he's always freezing.  But I finally couldn't take the stupid ass leather love seat anymore.  The damn thing is too slippery, and squeaky, to sleep on.  I WANT A ROOM OF MY OWN damnit. I used to wonder (back when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old) why my grandparents slept in seperate rooms.  I remember even asking them cause back then I thought it was kinda strange.  Her's was all purple and flowery and his was kinda bare and white.   But he always had the candy so his room was just better. He always said "ask your grandmother"  and probably gave me candy .....so I probably just forgot to go ask her.  But she always had the cookie tin full of gingersnaps.  So it all evened out in the end.

And come to think of it, my grandmother raised three boys so having a flowery girly room was probably heaven and something to look forward to after she reached a certain age. Cause I know she didn't always have this room.  Cause my parents and both me and my sister lived in that house with the two other brothers for the first years of our lives.  So that's six adults and two babies in a three bedroom house.  Yikes.
That`s the same house I later purchased(after i squatted in for 6 months) from my uncle, when I decided my kids needed to go to school in my old highschool.  So I moved back home, but that`s another story. I wonder if anyone appreciated my grandmothers sacrifices I know I don`t feel appreciated for any of mine in the last couple years of helping financially strapped kids with unexpected preganacies back to back .  My husband is still pissed at me for deciding for him that we will look after the g`kids until they are finally in grade one and don`t need the expense of daycare.  That we`re all living under one roof in order to help our kid purchase a home next year.

Now I'm in the same sorta situation.  Things have a way of coming full circle don't they...

Here I am, with my husband...living in a house with my daughter and her husband and two g`kids. At least I don`t have any unmarried other adult children living under one roof, like my grandmother had to deal with.  Well if anything, it is a much bigger and much more comfortable house that she suffered through.  But still....I WANT A ROOM OF MY OWN....with my own bed....with my own stuff...and my own candy supply that I don`t have to share with g`kids.   Is that asking to much.

There is another room, currently not being used.  But I bet no one will understand.  And if I move into it....I can just imagine the explaining I will have to do.  My kids will probably start wondering about the state of our marriange....though not the best in the world.  Certainly not worthly of seperate rooms.  I wonder how long it will be before they start to worry about which one is going to get stuck with which one of us in old age.  HAHAHA  I should do it just to shake them up a bit.

I`m going to start looking for a bed.  I think I`m old enough for a room of my own, and damn it.....I`m worth it.

And IT HAS TO BE SAID

THANK YOU GRANNY ``N``` ....that`s what I called her.  `I APPRECIATED YOU....REALLY I DID

Old lady tea

I guess that's me... "old lady".
This has become a daily ritual in The A. M, with honey.... then in the afternoon.. it's the grape

My ungarden so far

Hmmm... too many zuc's in the pot I'm guessing

...but that's what came in the flat, what was I supposed to do?  Select some for death???? Couldn't do it

Last week I was planning on cooking pork loin, I had two in the pkg.  I cut both almost in half length wise and then pounded both down.  I can't remember what i used to marinate them, prob some soya sauce, chili sauce, lea and perrins, grainy mustard, honey, seasame oil, garlic and ginger, would be my guess.  Then I rolled one into the other jelly roll style and tied them up into a nice long bundle.  Browned all sides then deglazed the pot with some white wine and threw the whole mess into the oven at 250 for the afternoon while I left to do a few things.  The last time I made the basic same thing about 3 weeks prior, the marinade was a little different and i stuffed them before rolling them up and cooked them at 350.  They were a little dry and overdone.  So this time I figured I'd try low heat and let it cook slow.  Well it was still a little dry.  Next time I might try the slow cooker, even though I really don't like anything from a slow cooker.

While the loin cooked I went shopping for sides.  The yams were all ginorous and yellow sweet potatoes just don't turn my crank.  I don't know who named them "sweet", but sweet they are not.  Yams....now those are sweet.  Sweet potatoes potatoes are tasteless and bland, and boring.....

I spotted some purple skinned sweet potato with a sign that promised the sweetest sweet potato.  So I bought some of the smaller ones.  What a revelation.  The g'kids normally don't take to yams, but I took the pulp out of the potatoes and masqueraded them as regular mashed potatoes.  And the g'kids looooved them and asked for 2nd and 3rd's.  It was amazing.  And full of flavour and sweetness like I've never experienced from a potato.

and I even made them in the toaster oven.  This was all that was left after cooking 8 of them.  I never got a chance to try them the next day.  But I bet they would have been good added to almost anything.  Like a pasta dish for the kids or into muffins or tartlets or anything else I tend to stuff leftovers into, to get more veg into the g'kids.

On monday I removed the leftover loin and shredded it

I got about 2 cups.

I chopped up some kale, and onions

 carrots on the mandoline and I added some leek confit I was also cooking down for something else. but added It...cause....why not?  I was using the same spoon to stir both and got some leek into the carrots anyway.  Added some spices, garlic ginger

a big glug of both of these.

And then I had to pick kids up so threw everything into the fridge and promptly forgot about it all.  Until tuesday.
I added some more flavour, and letting it all sit for a day kinda let it all maserate together and I could have just eaten the whole thing out of the bowl....but I didn't

Cause I was determined to make THIS
I mean...how hard could it be.  I precooked everything because i wanted to see if this would be a good alternative to a fridge full of leftover

 ANd they were very easy to assemble.  They may not look as fancy as everyone elses....but big deal.   They weren't in a beauty contest.  They went down the hatch very well

 ooops..first batch the oil was a little tooooo hot.

 And then I got an idea.  My mother always makes strawberry vareniki.  And I had some strawberries in the fridge.  And the likely hood that I will EVER attempt vareniki are nill to never.  So I cut up some strawberries, added sugar, and potato start and VOILA....

With some whipping cream.  HEAVEN on a plate.  But very hot...as in temp.  Must have been the sugar.  I will definitly be making more of both of these.  I can hardly wait for huckleberry season to give them a try in a potsticker.  I was amazed at how fast they went together.  And they cook up fast....and they get eaten even faster.  There were people standing by the stove ....waiting for the next batch.  Dividing them up evenly in antisipation of the next batch. Both meat ones and fruit ones.  Eating standing up between the stove and the table.  It was very funny.
At one time I mixed up leftovers into a muffin-in-a-meal thiing.  But potstickers.....are a great alternative.

I should be making potstickers, enjoying emptying the endless pile of boxes in the garage, looking for those clothes of my husband that I threw away but won't actually admit to, sorting through stuff for garage sale, setting up sewing room,....but I'm not. Enjoying the sun instead ahhhh.....the down side???? All that white skin.... the glare.

K.O. loop

one things leads to another....instead of doing the "list fridays" thing.  I have to be different and do a List Sunday.  Why?  because I hardly ever get out of bed before noon on Sunday.  I'm usually lounging in bed watching the pvr'd programs since friday night.  It's usually Bill Maher, 20/20, Rock Center, W5, Fifth Estate, 48 Hours, Sunday Morning cbs thing, Land and Sea, Mansbridge One on One.  And anything else that i've pvr'd since Friday.  With all these shows, who has time to get out of bed anyway.  Well truthfully some of these I watch Saturday night also.  But Sunday mornings I can usually be found in bed till noon, usually with my computer on my lap.

Avocado's are on my brain these days.  And this really looks good.
I've got to buy a cauliflower, and how come I never thought of this myself.  I loooove cauliflower and I always have pesto on hand in the freezer.  This is a no brainer.  I'll have to try it with other veg.
And this will probably go down real good in this household.  Both this  and that, what's not to like about a meatball meal.  Or as finger food the next day.  yyummm
And what's this site....yet another to add to my growning list of sites to explore.  There aren't enought hours in the day.  I've often wondered about the people posting, and taking pictures of food they are cooking, eating, etc.  I never remember to pic up the camera when I want to document my meal.  I always remember as I'm clearing away.
And how many books are these bloggers going to flog on their sites.  Getting a little annoying.  Yes, yes, yes there are wonderful writers out there, and yes it's wonderful that they've all gotten the opportunity to write a book.  But I don't want to hear about it constatantly on your blog.  Enough already.  It's already advertised on your site. Give it a rest already.  We're not stupid, and I'm not going to buy it anyway.  I order my books at the library and rather pay an overdue fine than have to deal with a book permanently in my possession.  I move....I hate packing things.  I usually don't read it a second time.  Why on earth would I want to buy it.

And just so you know......all you writers out there that annoy the hell out of me by screwing up the printing ability of your recipes by using a color that won't copy well.   I can enter the recipe on countless recipe sites and take a pic of the end result with my cell phone. And paste the pic.  So no matter what is done to slow the copying process. Just so you know.....once it's out there...it's out there.

There have been several books that I have bought and yes I have used them countless times, But....I've copied the recipe into my big binder with plastic sheet protectors, cause I usually can't put my finger on just where the book is, or who i lent it to, or which kid might have it.  So I've stopped buying them.  I can't remember the last cookbook I've bought.  I remember now...it was at a library...in the sale pile.  I believe it was Loonyspoons.  I've bought this particular book probably 4x's now.  I keep lending it out.  And I keep going back to it.  I've had to phone people that I know have this book to retrieve a recipe for me.  So this copy I'm keeping this one.  Though I don't know where it is if I wanted a recipe.

And Barefoot I always buy, I just wish Ina wrote a little more about the food.  Ina....you should write more.
I've got a bin full of cookbooks that are being added to the garage sale stuff.

I've started to add recipes to a recipe share site just so I can put my finger on a particular recipe that my kids have requested while at their house.  It's nice and convenient when travelling and shopping.  But pinterest is the ultimate site.  So now each recipe gets posted to a sharing site first then to pinterest.  Cause I just don't trust pinterest to be there when I need it.  Even though it has survived thus far.  Who bought it anyway.  I can't remember.

I hope the creators made a gazzilion dollars cause so far it's the best site ever.

This looks really good.  I also found a recipe that adds cinnamon.
This is an interesting site that I will be going back to
And who is this guy anyway.
Well it's almost noon.  I gotta get outta here, make some lunch maybe.  Get dressed.  Maybe have a shower.
My tea is way cold

Nothing much

Nothing much to talk about.  I really dislike this time of year - it's neither this nor that.  No sense in doing anything in the dirt cause it might snow.  One minute it's hot enough to sit outside in shorts the next minute your shivering.  Do I wear a jacket, or just a hoodie?

But then I'm not planning on doing much gardening this year anyway.  So it's even worse whenever I happen to walk by a display of seeds.  It's no wonder my mother refuses to give up her huge garden.  The spring before my mothers sister passed away, my mother outfitted her with one of those "help, I've fallen" things around her neck.  After all it was gardening season and who had the time to go and check up on her all day long.  They only lived about three blocks away from each other, as the way the crow flies.  My aunt lived three houses away from an elementary school and a block away from a high school.  And her alley was usually the short cut for the smokers from the high school.  One day my mother was happily gardening in her back yard when she heard a siren that sounded like an ambulance.  And it was getting closer and closer, then sounded suspiciously three blocks away.  So she got on the phone, and no answer.  Since my aunt didn't drive anymore and whenever she left the house she was instructed to take the portable phone outside with her.  A couple tries more on the phone....nothing.

So she called a neighbor of hers. Sure enough the ambulance was at her place.  So my mom high tailed it over there.  Some high school kids heard cries for help in the bushes.  And after investigating found my aunt - she'd had a stroke and was in the raspberry bushes.  Not the best place to have a stroke.  All those prickles and thorns and all.  She sent back into the garden soon as she got out of the hospital.

I went to the market yesterday and the entrance was the usual assortment of barbeques and patio furniture.  I had to return something about 2 hours later when I went to pick up the g'kids and couldn't believe the transformation in 2 hours.  A delivery of hanging baskets must have been unloaded in those 2 hours.  And I'm thinking.....it's going to snow for sure now.  The first delivery of plants usually gets snowed on, or frozen out.

I was shopping for supplies for dinner
Salisbury steak
Kale and Brussel sprout salad

Don't remember the last time I made Salisbury steak, It's something one orders in a greasy spoon kind of place my husband adores.  In fact it was probably a main stay of his rotating menu when he was working on the road.  I believe he thought he'd died and gone to heaven when he came to the table. It was a thrilling moment for him. He lite up like a xmas tree, he was so happy.

It was very good.  I didn't use veal (why would anyone yyukkk) but basically followed the recipe except spiced it up more and used panko instead of soaked up bread.  For the gravy I couldn't find any organic beef stock so I used veg stock and doctored it up with some bragg's and about 1/3 cup of leftover onion gravy from last week that I happened to freeze from leftovers of dinners past.  I used just regular mushrooms sliced.  I also used potato starch not flour.  It was very good. But it sure was time consuming.  I'm still trying to figure out why dinner took sooooooo long and why it was sooooo arduous. And the mushrooms already came sliced.  I started at 430 and dinner wasn't served until 630.  Way to long for something as simple as this, with mashed. I only had a chance to take three swigs of wine during the whole thing.  I kept loosing my wine glass in the mess of stuff all over the counters of prep. I even left my husband with a sink full of potatoes and a knife and peeler (whichever he prefered) with instructions to put them into a pot of cold water and throw them outside while I was gone.  Maybe next time I will make the hamburger steaks a day ahead.  Even though they really weren't that time consuming.  When I make my own mix of hamburger meat I grind up the meat into 500-600 gram bags and then freeze them, when I'm planning on using hamburger I thaw out and then grind a second time just before using.  I always manage to find a couple big roasts on sale comperable to the price of ground sirloin.  And then some pork chops or roasts on sale. It's a wierd obsession of mine to grind my own meat.   So maybe it was all the cleaning of the kitchen aid that was time consuming.

The Kale Brussel Sprout salad was amazingly good.  I'm really pissed that my daughter took ALL the leftovers for lunch of the salad.  I was hoping to get a taste of "day old" salad.  It's probably really good.

All and I mean each and every one of the brussel sprout haters LOOOOOVED this salad.  And me, a Kale hater even liked it.  I couldn't find any roasted salted almonds so I bought some regular almonds in the baking aisle and sliced them and then drizzled some grape seed oil and salt on them and into the toaster oven.  Twice-----the first one burnt.  I was standing doing something, I can't remember what and suddenly I smelt burnt popcorn.  WTF  whose burning popcorn?  Dinner is almost ready and someone is making popcorn?  I never knew burnt almonds smelled like burned popcorn.

Maybe that's what was so time consuming.   Have you ever sliced almonds?  A thankless job, specially with a buggered up right wrist.  Anyway the salad was a winner.  Though it did lack something.........
We decided that it would be wonderful with maybe some pomegranate seeds.  Or may some of those black diamond spicy almonds?  It needed something......But still was very good.

Both of these will be put on the rotation menu.  Thanks to Rachel Rappaport for inspiring the Salisbury Steak and mushroom gravy on mashed and Thanks to Dinner with Julie for the salad.  I'm texting my daughter to bring home some brussel sprouts and almonds for a remake.  This salad will probably be made over and over again.  

First there was six

There it is, what's left of 6 seedlings of lettuce leaf basil
Maybe the view scared the other 4

Or maybe I just forgot to water it last week.
thankfully there will be a visitor from back home next week that can bring a couple more seedlings from my mother.  Fingers crossed that she's driving and not flying.

This might be a streeeeetch for "youth"....but there you have it.  The youth of my "non garden" this year
Thank goodness there is a rather large patio to accomodate the planters cause I'm not spending the money on any garden that will be left behind in a year and a half.  It's even south west facing.  The only thing I may actually "plant in the ground" in green beans up the lattice.

before - let's see how this will look next month.

Boston

What is there to say?
I thought the crazies lately where in North Korea

All those innocent bystanders!  I can`t even imagine - one second ....life was good.
.....the next one, it will never be the same.

The making of "the man cave"

Everytime I searched out my son-in-law (sil) he was throwing things around in the garage.  Here I thought he was unloading things.....But it seems it was only being moved around
This morning I waundered in there and had a chuckle

It seems we have the making of a Man cave

The only thing missing is the drum set.
and maybe some strobe lighting.
He's already planning on a garage sale to end all garage sales.....he used to be an event planner/banquet chief.  Sooooo it should be interesting.
---there will be music
---there will be food
---there will be door prizes
---so far
---hopefully there will be more room in the man cave.
I bet it will be scheduled to co-incide with the same weekend of the  Hawaiian maid-of-honor/brides-maid trip that he refuses to accompany my daughter on.  Seeing as how this particular bride ditched her bridesmaid responsabilites when the trip was to Mexico for their wedding.  Bad feelings die hard it seems.

Someday

Unpacked this yesterday
It's one for the "X-man"  ...in the house. Do you see the x's...there's nine, I think...everytime I look at it - I see more. Xander is my g'son and he should have had one of his own quilts when he was born.  But it didn't work out that way.  He's 4 and still hasn't got one.  He has several baby quilts.

I was running out of the white on white that were in the centers, so I switched to

a different off white star thing for the corners
This top was made in blocks, but looking at it right now, I can't see where the blocks started and where they ended, and if I added strips here and there or not.  Maybe I made them in blocks of four, I really can not remember.  Except it was driving me crazy at the time.

Then added the two different borders
And Looking at it right now, maybe It could have used another border.  But that's it, not going back.  If I have to remove all those pins I might have to kill myself.

I had to sand down the tips of each and everyone of them, so that the fabric wouldn't be compromised but breaking threads on the fabric.

And then the mistake.....I didn't notice it until i hung it up on the rod.  I didn't even plan of 3 purple block on each corner,  but there are three of them

#1

#2

#3

ooooops, yellow 

I wasn't even actually planning on the four square of purple in each corner, It's a good thing, cause there's only actually 3 corners and 1 ooops.

Oh, well.  Every quilt needs and requires some errors.  This one should make the grade.  Looking at it, I kinda like the way it turned out.

Now for the worse part possible......

The actually quilting.......ughhhhhhhhhhhhh
I really, really hate that part.
I don't know what to do, or where to start.
I should call up someone with a machine.
Wonder how much that would cost.
Or maybe a quliting guild needs a project.
Or maybe a need to join a guild again.

Everyone who looks at it chooses a favorite square.  And the favorites change from one moment to another.

Happy

This is what is called an unobstructed entry...

don't you just love a stack of boxes - unloaded

An unobstructed hallway

Since I've never had any sort of shoe fetish - size 10 kinda makes that impossible. But I wasn't happier in my life when I got to put on a pair of shoes other than my track shoes/joggers (whatever you want to call them) Finally....
Note to self
I can not state this more louder or with more emphasis....never, ever pack clothes and shoes into storage first. Cause you won't see them for months.

Happy....yea

My other daughter in Toronto though - is moving today.  A new city/town and a new life as an unemployed farmer.

Cook...damn it....cook

I can tell right away that a convection oven stove thing will be the first purchase.

these meatballs are just taking way to long to cook.  I have things to do...places to go...kids to pick-up.  Stupid ass ovens are not acceptable.