Week 34 - Yarn Report

Well - this week I have excuses.  

Of course, I STILL don't do as much as Judy does (who ALSO gets yarn time in even with all the other stuff she does!!!!)  But for me - well..... (Whine coming on!)

This week I gardened, read, gardened, napped, planned, put up food, and for the most part (gasp!) procrastinated!  I STILL don't have the needles the size I need - and am STILL positively drooling over the Dreamspan patterns - as well as a whole bunch of other patterns (including Owlies - who knew!!!!!)  At any rate - it didn't happen!  Who knows - maybe this next week will be different and I will knit up a storm? (gotta be easier than NOT adding stitches when I'm not supposed to be.....)
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Week 34 - Used this Week:  0
Used this month:0
Used this year: 1 skein

Added this Week: 0
Added this month: 0
Added this year: 1 Skein

Net Used this year : 1 skein

Patterns purchased this week 0

Yippee! It's FRIDAY!!!! WAIWO 08-30-13B

Weeding outside is done - and tomato oils washed off my arms - TG!  That stuff ITCHES - almost worse than the mosquitoes!  Still and all - it is cool here - cloudy - but cool!

Met one of the moms of the kids today - showed off my garden - later after she left - I looked around at all the empty spaces (thank you, birds!) and thought OH my!  Pitiful!  Still and all - am glad I have what I do!  Her garden isn't doing really well either - their tomatoes are just not ripening - and yes, everything is sooooooo slow growing as to come almost to a standstill!  I thought it was just me and my ineptness!  I've been really glad to have tomatoes - although have got now almost a canning lot again which would be fine if I had lids!  My beans are also growing - and blooming - and that is even for the fall planted beans.  Hers aren't.  I offered to give her some tomatoes - but they're on the way to visit relatives.  So maybe I'm not so bad a gardener after all - provided I don't count the birds!

LOL - Nathan STILL forgot to bring over the eggs he got for me - so I think I'm on my own re eggs and all - at least until next week!

Re housework - can we say this is NOT my favorite thing?  And if so, then what gave you the clue???  Could it be (gasp) that I have carried the SAME assignment in one form or another for the last 2 - 3 weeks (or months - whichever!)  Regardless - at least the living room is DEFINITELY on the schedule for today!  My kitchen is pretty well decluttered - but I want to get it done the rest of the way (yard sale coming up!) - and videos and dvds are part of the living room scene.  Besides if I do a marathon of movies (while quilting!) I want to watch movies I haven't seen before or at least recently - so I can keep those separated out - and then give a keep or dump after I watch them.  Dining room - as always - may be on a survival mode.

MOSTLY today I want to get Back to Square One completely caught up!  I will feel soooooo much better if I do!  And even better yet if I get the Hurricane Sandy thingy done and bound and OUT OF THE WAY!!!! Re the 4 patch - that really isn't on the GOTTA DO IT list until next week when a lot of swaps are on that same list!

Dehydrating foods is a definite MUST for today - either that or I will start to lose veggies and I don't want that!

TODAY.............

HOUSE

• Living Room zone clean -   
• Get Dining area READY for zone cleaning! 
• DONE Double check kitchen re de-cluttering
• Videos and DVDs - this is NOT a major challenge - go as fast as possible with this one!

QUILT

• Back to Square One - step 5 - the rest of it!
• Back to Square One - Step 6
• Back to Square One - Step 7
• Back to Square One - Step 8
• Hurricane Sandy - quilt
• 4 Patch swap - Southhampton Quilts

GARDEN

• DONE Carrots weeding
• Radishes - thin again?
• May let dry for dried beans Butterpeas - pick all those that are ready.
• Rhubarb 
• DONE Weed salsify/scorzonera
• DONE Pole beans
• DONE Bush beans????
• Okra is JUST about ready!
• Tomatillos
• Sweet corn - cut old stalks - 
• BIND all stalks and stand up
• Sweet corn - for Nathan????
• DONE-Asian pears - need to be ripe - these are ALMOST Check out pears
• DONE Tomatoes

KITCHEN (this took almost all day!  MAN there was a lot to put up!)

• DONE and thought I would NEVER get done!!!  Green Beans - dehydrate
• not done - working on it! Field Peas - dehydrate
• DONE Cucumbers
• DONE Cabbage
• DONE Eggplant
• DONE - still to dehydrate - my Brandywines - 10 HUGE tomatoes Tomatoes - Romas - dehydrate
• DONE Stir fry green packets (thinnings)

MENU
DONE B: homemade bread and butter
DONE L: Tomato sandwich - homegrown tomato (Brandywine) on homemade bread!  Yum!  Soup (Split pea)
DONE D : Turkey burgers or turkey meatloaf, baked purple potato, tomato salad, Purple beans (turn green when cooked!), tea, challah

B: homemade coffeecake - cinnamon
L: stew - beef and eggpland stew (maybe ground turkey instead of beef??? or chicken???)
D: Pizza - homemade - tomato sauce and slices, basil from garden, onion, green peppers, mozarella, maybe homemade gingerade

Thursday's WAIWO - 08-29-13

9 patches and snowballs
Block I did for charity swap

August is ALMOST over!!!!

The kids in the apartment upstairs came back yesterday for a brief time (long enough to drop stuff off and then mosey off to visit and party with friends elsewhere!)

Just came in from weeding/thinning/harvesting/planning my garden (planning is for NEXT year! - and to build CAGES this winter!)  LOTS of tomatoes - my little chat with the Brandywine tomatoes seems to have borne fruit - literally!  LOTS of Brandywine tomatoes!

And, of course, the tomatilloes which have been cute and perky all year long - have decided to get in on the act - and so guess what is going on tomorrow - checking and harvesting some of the tomatillos (only ones where the husk has split however.  However I found I can store these little thingies in their husks in the refrig for up to a week - I just want to store them for a couple of days!  All this mostly because I bet that if I found 3 fruits that are ready - that there are a bunch more that I haven't checked that are ready as well.  And my hands are FULL today already!

Didn't get to eat at son's last night - it seems he allowed himself to become seriously dehydrated - and while he was now hydrating himself (water) - he still felt lousy!  Have BTDT - and you can have some SERIOUS problems result.  At this point I suspect he will probably need to carry a thermos of water with him wherever he is - because if he's like me - he will now dehydrate - and do so VERY VERY quickly - and salt is NOT an option!  Seriously!  If I start feeling REALLY thirsty, it is seconds before I feel desperate for water, and only 2-3 minutes before I start tossing my cookies with hospital time following shortly thereafter.  Hopefully he won't be that bad.

TODAY.............

DONE and it was great! Another nap!

HOUSE

QUILT

GARDEN

• DONE Thin kohlrabi - last row
• DONE Carrots - first row - remove weeds (thinning MAYBE later this week!)
• DONE - last row Thin turnips
• DONE-Asian pears - need to be ripe - these are ALMOST Check out pears
• DONE Tomatoes

MENU
DONE B: Rolled oats, butter, brown sugar
DONE L: lo spaghetti - and any other leftovers I found!  LOL
DONE Dinner with Nathan's D : Five Guys burger and fries!  rootbeer!  (so nutritious!  yeah - right - but oh so good!)

Design Wall for Week 34 - 08-26-13

And ANOTHER Oops!!!!  Although not quite as bad!

Hurricane Sandy Quiltlet
Working on tonight and tomorrow (Thurs!  Mon came late this week!)
UFO list

Baby Quilt #1
May add another border and quilting tomorrow (Fri - UFO list)

Back to Square One
Working on this one today - hopefully will catch up!

Sunny Side Up -
may or may not get to this one this week
Reward for getting TWO off my UFO challenge list!

Summer Breeze - Flimsy is done!!!! - Finished Tues 

Sampler swaps - on my UFO list

Stash Report for Week 34 - 08-25-13

Oops!  This is Wednesday - NOT Sunday!  Sorry about that!

While a lot got done last week - it was on the order of swaps (see the new swap page!), garden, house and other stuff outside of the house - not so much on MY quilting!  Which is sad - especially since I'm in a challenge to FINISH up some things - Flimsies (if not done already), the BTDT whole Megillah quilt if flimsies were already done!  Well - better late than never!!!

Figures WILL change for next week - mostly because my flimsy that WAS completed will come off NEXT week's stash report!

08-25-13 -Week 34 - 
Used This Week: 0 yard/Used This Month: 0 yard for August/Used Year to Date: 15.88  yds.

Added This Week: 0 yards/Added This Month: 0 yards for August/Added Year to Date: 35.59 yards

Net Used for 2013: - 19.71 yards

Wow - Wednesday - already! 08-28-13

WHY do I want to say it is Tuesday????  I've had it in my mind that it is Tuesday all day!   Maybe it has to do with some schools starting up yesterday - and I associate first day of classes with a Monday???  Ya think?

Re that - I got my first sub call yesterday ...  unfortunately son had my car so I couldn't have gone to teach even if I had been able to move faster than a slow shuffle!

Slow shuffle - got the results yesterday - yup!  I have TWO bone spurs on my left heel!  Not being content with just one bone spur - or just plantar fascitis - I had to go for two bone spurs - like going for the gold!  NOT!  Treatment is still the same - essentially nada - except for my "little old lady" shoes that I still have to get (currently I'm wearing low 1 - 1.5" heels - but no real side support and no real arch support either).  That has to wait for $$$ first part of Sept.

Garden looks great - EXCEPT for where the sweet corn (just about all is done for!) is knocked down by the "critter" - or by the squash vine - whichever!  Squash - 2 kinds - both winter - Summer squash is still only 2.5 inches tall!  Tomatoes are coming in nicely - although one bush of the Romas has yet to have a single tomato on it that isn't beginning blossom end hit (healthy bush - sick fruit!).  My Brandywine tomatoes are starting to ripen although I thought I had RED Brandywine tomatoes as opposed to PINK!  NO!  Still and all - they are wonderful - and HUGE!  Zebra tomatoes - very good and will do those again!  Kellogg's - I will try again next year - I'm NOT impressed with this year's harvest.

Eggplants are still setting on fruit - so far averaging maybe 3-4 eggplants per bush.  Sweet peppers and the hot peppers (at the opposite end of the garden) are just starting to do their thing - so I'm letting them!  root crops and salad crops - well, let's just say that the pigeons are getting VERY fat and sassy! and I'm starting to think of squab pie!  I'll be lucky to get a dozen beets out of the group - and forget the mustard, fall lettuce, spinach, kale and chard!  Disgusting is what it is!  With exception of my Chinese cabbage (michihili - wish I had my favorite one planted!), this winter I'm making CAGES for my salad plants!

Butterpeas are merrily tooling along - as are the field peas which is great - and the fall planting of beans is just starting to do their bean thing - hopefully this will mean more of the French Filet that my family is so fond of!

HOUSE - ummmmm - parts have been royally decluttered.  Then there are the OTHER parts - the ones I am avoiding!!!!  That is, I'm referring to the Dining area and the study.  Living room MOSTLY has been decluttered - excepting videos and dvds which I need to do!  Kitchen has been mostly decluttered - but it mostly gets rearranged when the dining area stuff is complete.  Dining area - table decluttered - and most of the floor is - but I STILL don't know where to stash that blasted greenhouse!  And am thinking seriously of either (1) re-homing it, (2) sizing it down for cold frames which makes more sense anyway - and which I have room for, (3) putting it up - SOMEWHERE (in an alternate universe? because I'm not sure I have room enough for it in this one!), (4) putting it down in the basement H*** hole - with all the spiders..... uh, a big NO on that one!

Studies are still on holds - and I have part of the curricula I will need for the rest of this year - exception being the math for the next level.  Russian will continue, as will social studies (separate books and I have all I need for probably the next year), Same with Science - which will be followed by a unit probably on geology - that one I will have to get books and materials for.  Creative writing - I have the next level - but need the one after that which I expect to get to about January - maybe.  I have all the rest I need currently for Religion, music, art - but will need to get a good book on history of music, think I might still have 2 good books on history of art - do need to get something for the how to make various instruments etc. - but that is still a bit away.

TODAY.............

• DONE - and a mighty fine one it was!!! NAP

HOUSE
QUILT

• DONE Stash Report - week 34
• DONE Design Wall - Week 34
• NOT DONE - worked on it Back to Square One - step 5

GARDEN

• DONE Thin kohlrabi - 2nd row
• DONE Whip those beets into shape - cover what's left with screening - give those pigeons a toothache!
• DONE - 1 row Thin turnips

KITCHEN

MENU
DONE B: Tea, corn fritters and syrup, turkey bacon
DONE L: soup- lo pasta fagioli
DONE D : Mac and cheese, zucchini and tomatoes

Flimsy Finish!!!!

Actually - I finished this flimsy last night - just didn't post it!  LOVE this - and honestly, didn't think I was going to!  

Flimsy is Summer Breeze by Kim Brackett in her book Scrap Basket Surprises.

I would have gone on to start quilting - but that currently is under discussion.  Originally I had wanted to do a yarn tie - pink yarn, at that.  However as my dd Wendy pointed out - kitties (I have 4) LOVE to eat yarn as well as play with it - so - we are now talking about quilting - and I have to think about what and how I'm going to do that - and FMQ or walking foot.

Finally found enough pieces to finish up all 3 borders (2 for one end and one for other)
Finished last night!

Corner detail of the Summer Breeze quilt flimsy

Monday blues........ WAIWO 08-19-13

Today's focus has to do with food preservation.
I'm out of Salsa.
Note to self - figure out how much salsa I use a year - then multiply by 3!
With all the tomatoes I have I have enough for salsa - just hope I have enough Jalapenos!

MONDAY'S FOCUS

Canning/ food preservation

HOUSE

1. ZONE 1
1. Side Porch 
1. Declutter. 
1. DONE Freecycle stuff I don't want.  
2. Dining Area
1. Declutter
1. DONE Clear dining room table
2. Clean
3. make up list
2. ZONE 2
1. Kitchen
1. Declutter
2. Clean
3. make up list

QUILT

• Working on them - 5 of 7 done Scrappy Houses (7 of them - from Bonnie H's quiltville site)

KITCHEN

1. Continue to Dehydrate
2. Make
1. DONE Bread

Knitting Report - Week 32

Yup!  My "pregnant" scarf!
Looks like it will give birth to baby scarves any time now!
Other than the "soakers" that I knit for my dd before she was born (size 8 no less!),
it is the second thing I've ever knit.  Which means I really needed to hide this one!  Still and all......

Oh my!  Judy has done it this time for sure!  And now, I found out that Sheri (Lynn's mom) LOVES homemade socks!  I am seriously in TROUBLE!

Of course - I NEED to get some different needles!  AND re the patterns - I have a bunch of freebies I downloaded (somewhere! - probably on the Ravelry site!)

BTW - how do you figure yardage when it is sport weight and NO yardage is given? but the "skein" is humongeous?????  weight is 12 oz each "skein" - have maybe 4 of these.  Also have a LOT of little odds and ends - what do you do with these?

Knitting needles 
Have
13 (straight),, 17 (1 - straight),
SOMEWHERE - 8 straight.  I need to get this together!!!!!! AND to get size needles (and kind) that I need!

Patterns
Wingspan
Multnoma
Age of Brass and Steam
Beginner's Easy Cowl
basically ANY free pattern (except socks!)

Yarn (a lot of this is yarn bequeathed to me!  NEEDS to be used up!
Have on hand - all kinds of sock yarn! (Is there a problem here????)

Used this week 0
Used this Month 0
Used this Year 1 skein (mostly) - yarn for skinny scarf

Added this week 0
Added this Month 0
Added this Year to date 1 skein of a lovely LOVELY heathery green!

Net used oops! 0

Saturday AND Sunday - WAIWO - 08-17 and 08-18-13

Stanley Park this time!  LOVE the flowers!

HOUSE

1. ZONE 2
1. Kitchen - WHB
2. ZONE 3
1. DONE BATHROOM - WHB - 
2. DONE LAUNDRY ROOM - WHB
3. DONE Sewing Room - WHB
4. Study - WHB
3. ZONE 4
1. DONE My room - WHB

GARDEN

STUDIES  

QUILT

• Working on them - 5 of 7 done Scrappy Houses (7 of them - from Bonnie H's quiltville site)
• Back to Square One - catch up 
• DONE Part 4 - border 1 redone
• (2 missing borders to go) -  the NEW quilt - Summer Breeze by Kim Brackett ("Scrap-Basket Surprises")

KITCHEN

1. Continue to Dehydrate
1. make the Caponata!!! eggplant
2. Make
1. challah on Friday

MENU

B:Hard boiled eggs, sweet rolls

L:ratatouille, challah, chicken salad?, veggies, 1-egg cake

D:tuna salad (egg sliced on top), tomatoes, cookies, challah

Writing Friday - all over again!!! WAIWO 08-16-13

Summer Breeze Quilt from Kim Brackett "Scrap Basket Surprises"
Need to do 2nd and 3rd borders at the top only (rest is done!)

DONE - and a lovely nap it was!  :P  Nap and getting off my foot???

HOUSE

GARDEN - weed, re-plant, etc. - harvesting like mad.  Not a lot to store away though. Finding other human foot prints (smaller than my feet) in my garden around beans!

• weed
• DONE roots
• Other
• Thin (Have to re-thin radishes AGAIN!)
• DONE salsify, etc.
• no - will thin next week - still too small and they're still coming up turnips
• DONE Radishes (winter)
• Harvest
• DONE green beans
• DONE butterpeas????
• DONE - some are READY Crowder peas

STUDIES  

QUILT

KITCHEN

MENU

DONE B:Scrambled eggs and tomatoes, toast and cream cheese

DONE L:cucumber soup, toasted cream cheese and tomato sandwich

Nah!  Son buying me dinner/food out!D:sour cream, onion, cheese enchiladas, tomato/veg salad with balsamic vinegar, sopapillas, challah

B:Hard boiled eggs, sweet rolls

L:ratatouille, challah, chicken salad?, veggies, 1-egg cake

D:tuna salad (egg sliced on top), tomatoes, cookies, challah

Thursday - I know I heard a poem about Thursday somewhere.... WAIWO - 08-15-13

I worked on this - Step 4.
Unfortunately I need to re-do the first and 3rd border in the CORRECT color!  Grrr!

HOUSE (heel hurting - A LOT!!!! didn't do much beyond pickups!)

1. ZONE 1
1. Back Stairs
1. DONE Cobwebs gone
2. DONE Hand scrubbing molding and stairs
3. DONE blinds
4. DONE Hand scrub floor - see if can get black shoe prints OFF floor

GARDEN - weed, re-plant, etc. - harvesting like mad.  Not a lot to store away though

• weed
• DONE Salad section/coles
• DONE tomato
• DONE, at least the radishes, beets are.  Carrots STILL coming up - fortunately - same for salsify, etc. potatoes/roots
• Other
• DONE Cut off corn from first and second harvest - no new second ears
• Thin 
• Next week Carrots
• Not sure - don't think it came up Celeriac
• on Fri turnips
• on Sun Kohlrabi
• DONE, one row to thin! Radishes (winter)
• DONE will need thinning again (provided birds don't eat them all! beets! (NOT 4' tall or 4' wide beets! LOL)
• Harvest
• DONE, some at least - will harvest the rest tomorrow green beans
• DONE some sweet corn????
• DONE, most - rest tomorrow butterpeas????
• will harvest on Fri - some are ready for fall and I don't want them to shatter Crowder peas
• DONE tomatoes
• DONE - they are done for year Pea pods

STUDIES  - 5 days however due to other commitments - this may and probably is on hold for this week - who knows - I may actually do it!

QUILT

• (worked on this.  Have to re-do the first border - I did the wrong color!!!!) Back to Square One - catch up 
• (2 missing borders to go) -  the NEW quilt - Summer Breeze by Kim Brackett ("Scrap-Basket Surprises")

KITCHEN

MENU

DONE B:Toast and cream cheese

DONE - VERY Yum! L:grilled cheese sandwich with tomato 

DONE D:mixed veggie platter, balsamic vinegar for salad dressing on ripe homegrown Roma and green Zebra striped tomatoes (they're green - but oh so sweet!)!

Wednesday - isn't there a song about Wednesday??? WAIWO 08-14-13

GO AND DO

1. DONE Hospital - Xrays of foot
2. DONE Library
3. DONE Post office and mail swap
4. DONE yum! Burger King for Value onion rings

HOUSE

GARDEN - weed, re-plant, etc. - harvesting like mad.  Not a lot to store away though

• weed
• DONE tomato
• DONE eggplant/pepper/cucumbers
• Other
• Thin (Have to re-thin radishes AGAIN!)
• DONE turnips
• Harvest
• DONE sweet corn????

STUDIES  - 5 days however due to other commitments - this may and probably is on hold for this week - who knows - I may actually do it!

QUILT

KITCHEN

1. Continue to Dehydrate
2. Make

MENU

DONE B: Omelet, jalapeno peppers, onion, cilantro

DONE L: burger, onion rings, fries, tea

DONE D: cheese, onion, tomato sandwich - or tomato sandwich

Graceful Tuesday.... WAIWO 08-13-13

Well, piddle!  I went to see the dr. today about this stupid heel, hoping it was just a stupid heel and not something more serious like an infection.  Dr. asked me what I thought it was - so I reviewed all possibilities that I had thought about.

Infection?  Nyet - temp on both heels about the same - no swelling present!  Broken bone? - no swelling present and there hasn't been.  Stone bruise?  Should have been a LOT better by now - instead it continues same old, same old!  Abscess?  See infection - so that is also a no.  Wanted confirmation that there was no strange growth that I didn't see - and all was ok.  So - of things left - most likely plantar fascitis (and here we go into unknown territory on my spelling!)  Was concerned it might have been a spur on my heel - but that was a probable no as well since I should have noticed that LONG ago! Of course pain could have just crossed some threshold or other which is why I'm feeling it.

So most probably the plantar thingy.  Ugh!  what to do?  (1) correct how I'm walking (that I had already figured out - just hadn't done enough of it!)  You see, when I walk - I STALK - SLAM that heel down then stride forward, rolling my foot as I do so.  True fun - espec. with arches that like to not help a whole lot too!

And how do I correct my walking?  Other than just trying to remember?  wear slight heels so that I carry my weight NOT on the heel of the foot but more towards the ball of the foot.  The nurse had suggested strongly that I wear Dr. Scholl's shoes - which I think is a very good idea. Strange thing - which makes me want to giggle actually - years ago when I was 20 and newly married, my then husband took me to a foot specialist - who said I MUST wear heels - not HIGH heels - but heels and MUST wear tie shoes.  At that time the only shoes that fit the bill were what we called little old lady shoes.  And so that's what I wore - arch supports and all - and once my foot got past the agony of being somewhat rearranged - I could go for hours in those.

Problem was - I was in my 20s and not only did my friends give me a really hard time about that - but my mother (who HATED Al) gave me a VERY hard time about it pretty much constantly.  After my divorce, I eventually got rid of the shoes (wore them out, I did!) - but I DID stay with tie shoes that gave my foot some support.  No heels though.

So - now - what do I get to wear?????  LOL - Little Old Lady Shoes - but Baby, those shoes have come a LONG LONG way and no longer look like the same kind of clunkers they did back then!  TG for that!

I must say though - I DO like the part where I stay OFF my feet as much as possible!  Gardening - well - yeah I gotta do that!  But housework?  Nah!  That's on my unnecessary list!  Wonder how long I can get away with that!

Oh yeah - I also get to wear BED shoes at night!  Oh joy!  More sweaty hot feet!  Sure hope my cats don't get in the way if I turn over suddenly!

Clonk!

GO AND DO

1. DONE Take Lynn to work (know she will be GLAD when all cars are operational again!)
2. DONE Dr. office
3. DONE PO
4. called and re-newed books Library

HOUSE

GARDEN -

STUDIES  - 

QUILT

• DONE Stash Report
• DONE Design Wall Report

KITCHEN

MENU

DONE B:coffeecake

DONE L:salad - use snipped thinnings, tomatoes, cukes, salad dressing (homemade French)

DONE D:fast food

Stash report for week 32

This past week was the week of swaps.  Lots of fabric sent out - but then I got the same amount of fabric back!  DID buy in a FQ of fabric - but then that went out the same day - as a FQ (we were doing a Fruit Basket Swap) So I'm not even posting about that!

HAD hoped to finish up the flimsy and maybe quilt the Summer Breeze quilt - however I did SOMETHING with one of the end borders - NO idea what - and am sure I will find it when I piece together a new border for the missing one.  The missing blocks for the 3rd border I already figured out what I did with them - and they DID look nice in the swaps!  However I have other fabrics that will look nice in this scrappy quilt!

Soooooooo - now having ALL of my August swaps done - I am READY TO GO!  and hope to accomplish major things this week!

Used This Week: 0 yard
Used This Month: 0 yard for August
Used Year to Date: 15.88  yds.

Added This Week: 0 yards
Added This Month: 0 yards for August
Added Year to Date: 35.59 yards

Net Used for 2013: - 19.71 yards

Design Wall for Week 32 - 08-12-13

Hurricane Sandy quiltlet or table topper - whichever!
Will be machine tied this week - ran out of time and oomph last week!

Baby Quilt #1 - will be quilted using walking foot  -
wish I had more of that yellow - would like to add another border or so -
however - this is the size that the pattern recommended!

Judy L's Back to Square One Medallion -
BOY am I behind - want to catch this one up this week!

Summer Breeze by Kim Brackett - I have done SOMETHING with one of the border strips AND found out what I did with 4 blocks for the next border out.  Have all borders on EXCEPT for one end - the one that is missing, of course - First border all the way around.  Second and 3rd borders - 3 sides around - and think I might be able to piece in what I need for getting the rest done this week - want to finish piecing.  Dd thinks I ought to FMQ or use Walking foot on this.  Personally I think machine ties with pink yarn at the corners of each and every square would be lovely.
But then - my kitties would think so too!

Sampler blocks - MUST MUST MUST finish these this week - and send out emails.
If folks don't respond to individual inquiry - then off to charity quilt they go!

Monday, Monday - isn't there a song that starts like that???? WAIWO 08-12-13

Hmmm - Since I didn't get really anything done yesterday - today is the day I do yesterday's chores!  Being a day out of sync (at least a day!) is not really that unusual for me anyway!

Thinned a bit in the root part of the garden - LOTS of thinnings!  Will be thinning tomorrow - more radish thinnings, plus beet thinnings.  Radishes - I figure I can thin one row a day.  Maybe!

Also weeded - a lot! - in my herb garden which was just about to get lost in the weeds!

Lots of tomatoes coming on - and - Woohoo!  One of my Brandywine tomatoes is starting to ripen - FINALLY!!!!  I've decided that the one that I've gotten ripe (almost ripe) tomatoes from before is a Kellogg's - also an heirloom!  Another heirloom I have planted is the Old German - but that one will be FUN to figure out whether or not it is ripe - since it is greenish when ripe!  Still I figure it will be wonderful in my fried green tomatoes - and am looking forward to it!  Plus - I hope I get enough this year to make green tomato pie (takes ALMOST ripe tomatoes!) and green tomato mincemeat.  And then - IF I get canning lids - there are canned green tomatoes, green tomato pickles, etc., etc.!  Almost makes one wonder if I'm sad when the tomatoes finally ripen!

Made quite a few phone calls - including re-scheduling dr. visit about this stupid heel of mine - which really hurts - but car at present is in Sturbridge - and it was all a mis-communication on my part! Anyway - will be seeing Dr. tomorrow - and will probably get x-ray as well.

HOUSE

1. ZONE 1

GARDEN -

• weed
• DONE potatoes/roots
• Other
• Thin (Have to re-thin radishes AGAIN!)
• Blasted birds trying to eat ALL of the beet greens! beets! (NOT 4' tall or 4' wide beets! LOL)
• Harvest
• DONE sweet corn????
• DONE eggplant
• DONE tomatoes

STUDIES  - 5 days however due to other commitments - this may and probably is on hold for this week - who knows - I may actually do it!

QUILT

KITCHEN

MENU

Toast great, syrup beyond help! (Febreze, here I come!) B: French toast - without syrup - I royally burned it! :(   

Yum! L: Gazpacho soup , cucumber open face sandwiches with cream cheese and chives.  Tea

D: cheese pizza - homemade, with Roma tomatoes

Sunday's fun things!!!! WAIWO -8-11-13

HOUSE

1. ZONE 1

GARDEN - POURING rain outside - what back in IL we called a Goslin' drown'der!

• weed 
• DONE Herbs 
• Other
• Thin (Have to re-thin radishes AGAIN!)
• Working on it! Radishes (winter)
• Harvest
• DONE eggplant
• DONE tomatoes

STUDIES  - 5 days however due to other commitments - this may and probably is on hold for this week

QUILT

KITCHEN

• Continue to Dehydrate
• Make
1. Soups - 
1. DONE gazpacho
2. DONE cucumber soups
2. DONE Menues for week

MENUES

DONE B:Oatmeal

DONE L:turkey burgers

DONE D:leftovers - or pancakes

Focus for Week 32

HOUSE

1. ZONE 1
1. Back Stairs
1. DONE Cobwebs gone
2. DONE Hand scrubbing molding and stairs
3. DONE blinds
4. DONE Hand scrub floor - see if can get black shoe prints OFF floor
5. make up list
2. Side Porch - time spent with back stairs - 1 day's work
1. Declutter. 
1. Freecycle stuff I don't want.  
2. Stuff I DO want - but not now - goes in basement and gets HUNG UP!
2. Clean up
1. Remove cobwebs
2. Scrub up, including steps and door.  NOTHING should be left on side porch.
3. make up list
3. Dining Area
1. Declutter
1. Clear dining room table
2. Clean off shelving - 15 min at a time
3. Get shelving ready for pantry foods.  All other stuff gets reassigned to other areas: food prep, appliance area, household storeage (laundry room)
4. Cookbooks - set up on end - like bookshelving if possible.
5. Greenhouse???? - basement?????  Rehome it????
2. Clean
1. Windows and sills
2. blinds
3. Make list (with windows and sills on it)
4. Walls - fingerprints
5. Floor
3. make up list
2. ZONE 2
1. Kitchen
1. Declutter
1. go through each cabinet (start with end one - trade around with plastics)
2. Declutter plastics.  Move to end
3. Refrig exterior - 
1. Clear off top - COMPLETELY.  Clean and cover with plastic wrap (easier to remove plastic wrap than clean off top!)
2. Cab over refrig - reassign to seldom used - vases, etc.  NO foods, etc. in there
2. Clean
1. Ceiling/cabinet TOPS
2. Walls/fingerprints
3. Cabinet fronts, etc. (use purple cloth)
1. Clean each cabinet/drawer, etc. - one by one! (unless trading - then ONLY areas being moved around!)
4. Counters
5. Refrigerator interior - 
1. Freezer
2. Refrig
3. Refrig door
6. Stove 
1. top
2. Oven
7. Cab under sink
8. white open shelving - trade around if need be.  Move some stuff to table
9. Sweep floor thoroughly and scour
3. make up list
3. ZONE 3
1. DONE BATHROOM - WHB - 
2. DONE LAUNDRY ROOM - WHB
3. DONE Sewing Room - WHB
4. Study
1. Declutter and rehome as possible
1. Paperwork
2. books
3. dvds/videos
4. pictures
2. Clean
1. Ceiling
2. Fingerprints on walls/woodwork
3. windows and sills
4. blinds
5. machines
6. shelving
7. floors and scrubbing
3. make up list
4. ZONE 4
1. DONE My room - WHB
5. ZONE 5
1. Living Room
1. Declutter
1. Videos/dvds
2. Clean
1. Ceiling
2. Fingerprints on walls/woodwork
3. windows and sills
4. blinds
5. machines
6. shelving
7. floors and scrubbing
3. make up list

GARDEN - weed, re-plant, etc. - harvesting like mad.  Not a lot to store away though

• weed
• sweet corn/okra/squash
• tomato
• potatoes/roots
• eggplant/pepper/cucumbers
• green beans/peas
• Other
• Thin (Have to re-thin radishes AGAIN!)
• turnips
• Kohlrabi
• Radishes (winter)
• beets! (NOT 4' tall or 4' wide beets! LOL)
• Harvest
• green beans
• sweet corn????
• eggplant
• rhubarb????
• butterpeas????
• tomatoes

STUDIES  - 5 days however due to other commitments - this may and probably is on hold for this week - who knows - I may actually do it!

• Religion - each day's readings/mini books
• It's a Mitzvah Ch. 12, 130-135; IAM, Ch. 12, 1-3 read - consider; IAM Ch. 12, 4-6 read-consider; IAM 7-9; IAM 10-13;
• Song we sing - 23, 25, 81; 49, 64, 12; 28, 75, 51; 183, 52, 65; 
• Math - 1 lesson per day
• Lesson 58
• Lesson 59
• Lesson 60
• Lesson 61
• Lesson 62
• Lesson 63
• Russian - 
• Lesson 15
• Creative Writing - each day's lesson
• 10-4
• 10-5
• 11-pre
• 11-1
• 11-2
• 11-3
• Social Studies - hold this week
• Science - hold this week

QUILT

• DONE Stash Report
• DONE Design Wall Report
• Back to Square One - catch up 
• (2 missing borders to go) -  the NEW quilt - Summer Breeze by Kim Brackett ("Scrap-Basket Surprises")
• Machine "quilting" - embroidery ties - on Hurricane Sandy 
• Machine quilting - Baby quilt 1 - Grid pattern
• Belize quilt - new one IF I get machine quilting COMPLETED!!!
• slice and dice
• strings
• crumbs

KITCHEN

1. Continue to Dehydrate
1. Herbs
2. green beans
3. sweet corn????
4. cream peas????
5. butterpeas????
6. tomatoes
7. cucumbers
8. Pea pods
9. potatoes
10. cucumbers - make pickles
11. make the Caponata!!! eggplant
2. Make
1. Bread - regular weekday
2. sticky rolls????
3. Soups -  green bean??? cucumber soups
4. Menues for week
5. Pancake/waffle/biscuit mix - BIG bin - and store with directions
6. other major mixes
7. challah on Friday

Friday - Yeehaw!!! 08-09-13

These are the 4-patches to go to SH Quilts!

And of course, weather permitting and also that I have my car back from loan to son and dil, have a mountain of running to do - ie, PO (mail rest of swaps), Wally world (meds and mailers), SHQ (deliver that swap), and Agawam (Jenny-kitty).  Should be an interesting day or so!

Kittty has to wait until either Sat or Sunday - the family who is re-homing her is headed out to eat!

Other stuff - ummm - dust mice are growing well - I DO NEED to take care of that for sure!  Actually the dust mice have lovely long blond fur - strange how it resembles Button's fur!

GARDEN - POURING rain outside - what back in IL we called a Goslin' drown'der!

• weed
• Other
• Thin (Have to re-thin radishes AGAIN!)
• Harvest
• DONE sweet corn????
• DONE tomatoes
• DONE cucumbers
• DONE for now, anyway potatoes

STUDIES  - 
QUILT

KITCHEN

• Continue to Dehydrate
• Make
1. DONE bread

MENUES

DONE B: Omelet with habanero cheese, toast, milk

DONE L: Soup - leftover, sourdough bread and butter

DONE D: Meatloaf, carrot tzimmes, rice kugel, challah, eggplant caponata???, cake?

DONE B: Sticky rolls?, milk

DONE L: vegetable plate, tea

DONE D: salmon burgers, tomatoes, milk, sweet tea, cookies?

Thursday's child....

QUILT

• Swaps
• DONE 4 patch - Wendy
• DONE - well, working on it - you NEVER get DONE! slice and dice
• DONE - well, working on it - you NEVER get DONE! strings

KITCHEN

• Continue to Dehydrate
1. DONE - but there's MORE!  ALL TRAYS ARE FULL! cucumbers

MENUES

DONE B: Fried green tomatoes, omelet, potatoes, hot chocolate

DONE L: homemade bread for cheese and tomato sandwich, add in refrig pickles (cucumbers and onions - home preserved and I put entirely too much hot pepper in there!!!!!), iced tea
DONE D: beef sausage, potatoes, tomato and cucumber salad

Wednesday - man! Time flies! 08-07-13

Sweet corn, okra (that tiny stuff waaaaay back there) and squash - in the "back 40"

Cleaned up the kitchen - enough to be healthy!  Moved stuff off my computer table and set up for slicing and dicing in living room - and sliced/diced and listened to more discs of Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini!
Prepared foods for drying (forgot to make the Eggplant Caponata!) - filled all trays (12 of them - and they are doing their thing as I speak!

GARDEN - weed, re-plant, etc. - am Late with fall planting!  Still - only by a day on most - and still early for leafy stuff!

• weed
• worked on it potatoes/roots
• DONE coles/salads
• Other
• Thin
• DONE will need more! Radishes (winter)
• Harvest
• DONE rhubarb????
• let rest dry on plant??? cream peas????
• DONE tomatoes
• DONE cucumbers
• DONE for day - only a few plants left Pea pods

KITCHEN

• Continue to Dehydrate
1. DONE Herbs
2. DONE tomatoes
3. DONE - should have LOTS for cuke chips, sandwiches, soups, etc. cucumbers

MENU

DONE B: Omelet with jalapeno/monterey jack cheese and onion, hot chocolate

DONE L:cucumber sandwiches (on cream cheese and chives bread)

DONE D: leftovers

Focus for Week 31

HOUSE

1. ZONE 1
1. Back Stairs
1. Cobwebs gone
2. Hand scrubbing molding and stairs
3. blinds
4. Hand scrub floor - see if can get black shoe prints OFF floor
5. make up list
2. Side Porch - time spent with back stairs - 1 day's work
1. Declutter. 
1. Freecycle stuff I don't want.  
2. Stuff I DO want - but not now - goes in basement and gets HUNG UP!
2. Clean up
1. Remove cobwebs
2. Scrub up, including steps and door.  NOTHING should be left on side porch.
3. make up list
3. Dining Area
1. Declutter
1. Clear dining room table
2. Clean off shelving - 15 min at a time
3. Get shelving ready for pantry foods.  All other stuff gets reassigned to other areas: food prep, appliance area, household storeage (laundry room)
4. Cookbooks - set up on end - like bookshelving if possible.
5. Greenhouse???? - basement?????  Rehome it????
2. Clean
1. Windows and sills
2. blinds
3. Make list (with windows and sills on it)
4. Walls - fingerprints
5. Floor
3. make up list
2. ZONE 2
1. Kitchen
1. Declutter
1. go through each cabinet (start with end one - trade around with plastics)
2. Declutter plastics.  Move to end
3. Refrig exterior - 
1. Clear off top - COMPLETELY.  Clean and cover with plastic wrap (easier to remove plastic wrap than clean off top!)
2. Cab over refrig - reassign to seldom used - vases, etc.  NO foods, etc. in there
2. Clean
1. Ceiling/cabinet TOPS
2. Walls/fingerprints
3. Cabinet fronts, etc. (use purple cloth)
1. Clean each cabinet/drawer, etc. - one by one! (unless trading - then ONLY areas being moved around!)
4. Counters
5. Refrigerator interior - 
1. Freezer
2. Refrig
3. Refrig door
6. Stove 
1. top
2. Oven
7. Cab under sink
8. white open shelving - trade around if need be.  Move some stuff to table
9. Sweep floor thoroughly and scour
3. make up list
3. ZONE 3
1. BATHROOM - WHB - 
2. LAUNDRY ROOM - WHB
3. Sewing Room - WHB
4. Study
1. Declutter and rehome as possible
1. Paperwork
2. books
3. dvds/videos
4. pictures
2. Clean
1. Ceiling
2. Fingerprints on walls/woodwork
3. windows and sills
4. blinds
5. machines
6. shelving
7. floors and scrubbing
3. make up list
4. ZONE 4
1. My room
5. ZONE 5
1. Living Room
1. Declutter
1. Videos/dvds
2. Clean
1. Ceiling
2. Fingerprints on walls/woodwork
3. windows and sills
4. blinds
5. machines
6. shelving
7. floors and scrubbing
3. make up list

GARDEN - weed, re-plant, etc. - am Late with fall planting!  Still - only by a day on most - and still early for leafy stuff!

• weed
• sweet corn/okra/squash
• tomato/eggplant/pepper/cucumbers
• green beans/peas
• potatoes/roots
• coles/salads
• Other
• Thin
• Celeriac
• turnips
• Kohlrabi
• Radishes (winter)
• beets! (NOT 4' tall or 4' wide beets! LOL)
• Harvest
• green beans
• sweet corn????
• eggplant
• rhubarb????
• let rest dry on plant??? cream peas????
• butterpeas????
• tomatoes
• cucumbers
• Finish up Pea pods
• potatoes

STUDIES  - 4 days only (I figure I will be helping out at Lynn and Nathan's at least 1 day)

• Religion - each day's readings/mini books
• It's a Mitzvah Ch. 12, 130-135; IAM, Ch. 12, 1-3 read - consider; IAM Ch. 12, 4-6 read-consider; IAM 7-9; IAM 10-13;
• Song we sing - 23, 25, 81; 49, 64, 12; 28, 75, 51; 183, 52, 65; 
• Math - 1 lesson per day
• Lesson 58
• Lesson 59
• Lesson 60
• Lesson 61
• Lesson 62
• Russian - 
• Lesson 15
• Creative Writing - each day's lesson
• 10-4
• 10-5
• 11-pre
• 11-1
• 11-2
• Social Studies - hold this week
• Science - hold this week

QUILT

• DONE Stash Report
• DONE Design Wall report
• Swaps
• DONE and sent F8
• DONE and sent Charity blocks
• DONE some sent Scrappy stars
• DONE 4 patch - SH quilts
• DONE 4 patch - Wendy
• Back to Square One - catch up 
• the NEW quilt - Summer Breeze by Kim Brackett ("Scrap-Basket Surprises")
• Machine "quilting" - embroidery ties - on Hurricane Sandy 
• Machine quilting - Baby quilt 1 - Grid pattern
• Machine quilting (if possible) - Summer Breeze - machine and yarn tie (pink yarn????)
• NEW quilt - Belize???? 

KITCHEN

• Dehydrate
1. Herbs
2. green beans
3. sweet corn????
4. eggplant
5. cream peas????
6. butterpeas????
7. Some are done tomatoes
8. DONE - but there's MORE!  ALL TRAYS ARE FULL! cucumbers
9. Pea pods
10. potatoes
• Make
1. Bread - regular weekday, challah on Friday
2. sticky rolls????
3. Soups -  green bean??? cucumber soups
4. Menues for week
5. Pancake/waffle/biscuit mix - BIG bin - and store with directions
6. other major mixes

Tuesday evening..... what SHALL I do???? 08-06-13

HOUSE
Well, that didn't happen!!!  Did the basics and finished up swap stuff, pressed it - and WENT TO BED!!!!

QUILT

• DONE Stash Report
• DONE Design Wall report
• Swaps
• DONE and sent F8
• DONE and sent Charity blocks
• DONE some sent Scrappy stars
• DONE 4 patch - SH quilts
• working on them 4 patch - Wendy

MENU

DONE B: toast and butter

Was good! L: cucumber on cream cheese with chives sandwiches 

Yum! D: Chicken, mashed potatoes, tomato salad 

Design Wall for Week 31

It HAS been busy!  And on top of it all I messed up my heel on one foot - NO idea what I did - hopefully didn't break one of the little bones in there!

Mostly I worked on swaps - finished up, re-did some swaps and did a bunch of others.  And I also made a LOT of string blocks and a few crumb blocks as well.

Charity lotto block

another charity lotto block

 And then there are the scrappy stars......

 A completely separate swap - 53 4-patch blocks for Southhampton quilt shop swap

This leaves a swap for my dd (will post picture later - have question about one of the fabrics) which is a swap of 50 4-patches.

I hope to catch up on my Back to Square one quilt (am only 5 months behind!!!!) and then to work on doing the quilting on at least one or more quilts.

Stash Report for week 31

Wow! August - ALREADY!

I feel like I should have LOTS of yardage gone to report.  That's what I feel like!  Reality is.... I've been doing swap blocks - and they took TIME!  Yardage - well, I get back what I put out - so it's an even trade!
And I'm not going to even count my string and crumb blocks!

However I am catching up!  Only one more swap set to go (50 blocks - only 3 less than those for SH quilts and that one is DONE for the month!)  Also am catching up on some behind BOM things!

08-06-13 -Week 31 - 
Used This Week: 0 yard
Used This Month: 0 yard for August
Used Year to Date: 15.88  yds.

Added This Week: 0 yards
Added This Month: 0 yards for August
Added Year to Date: 35.59 yards

Net Used for 2013: - 19.71 yards