Stash Report (just a tad late!) - Week 17 - 04-29-13

Hmmm - Monday already - which means the Sunday I thought was Saturday was really Sunday while the Saturday - I have NO clue what I thought THAT was!

Noticed several things this mornings.... 

1. Sometime in March I wanted the years to hurry up - so was dating everything with the year 2017.  Wonder what happens then that I "remembered" that date!
2. Last 2 weeks in March and almost all through April - I must have decided to react against that advance in years - and set everything back to 2012.

Well, all's fixed now!  Guess the advance and regress of years were my way of thinking that the year was not what was important - it is only the here and now and what we do with that which is.

Which means I need to get my rear in gear and finish up the garden today - or at least for the month of April in this area (beans, corn, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, peppers and eggplants are for NEXT month - May!  All else being equal!  Hopefully!) 

Anyway - quilt wise - nothing added, nothing subtracted.  I DID sew - some.  Gardened - more.  Taught - some.  Studied - a bit.  And spent 1-2 days in an ostrich state of "I don't wanna do anything!"

04-28-13 (see - the year has been FIXED!) - Week 17 - Used This Week: 0 yard
Used This Month: 4.2 yard for April
Used Year to Date: 12.88  yds.

Added This Week: 0 yards
Added This Month: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 30.59 yards

Net Used for 2013: - 17.71 yards

It's SATURDAY!!!!! Woohoo!

HOUSE (15 minutes at a time!)  4 x 15. (we can see how much I DIDN'T get done yesterday!

It's All about Hearts table runner -
needs quilting, binding

• done Morning Routine
• Zone 1 - Side porch - DECLUTTER 
• Zone 2 - Kitchen floor again
• Zone 2 - Shelves 3 and 4
• Zone 2 - kitchen table 
• done Zone 3 - Laundry room - finish cleaning 
• Zone 3 - Laundry room -set stuff back up - We can /.remove stuff AGAIN when Nathan gets back to fixing shelves!
• done Zone 3 - Sewing Room - ceiling, walls, windows.
• done Zone 3 - Sewing Room - thoroughly dust
• done Zone 3 - Sewing Room - move the furniture, dustmop and mop the floor

 GARDEN (15 minutes at a time!) 4 x 15 (I've been spending entirely too long outside!) - yup - same indolence here too!

Improv placemat - needs finishing,
applique, quilting, binding

• done Work on Raspberry patch - tame the blasted thing! and put on wires!
• done Prepare new beds for planting (onions, sweet potatoes, peas) 
• done Set up fencing - Peas
• done Set up fencing - beans
• done Set up fencing - tomatoes
• Set up squash "trellis" using scrap lumber and poles
• Set up fencing - around new section of garden
• Rake leaves - back yard, bag and store for potato "bins"

STUDIES (15 minutes at a time!)  This will be a "Jump in where I am!"  No catchups allowed - UNTIL Sunday - which is alloted for that! ON HOLD FOR THE REST OF THIS WEEK

96 Miles an Hour sampler quilt -
needs rest of the blocks, then sew together,
quilt and bind

QUILT

• Peggy's Picnic tablecloth quilt - may use embroidery floss - but thanks to maybe 50 responses I now have a variety of ways to tie a quilt!  Thank you one and all!
• FMQ practice - Mark into quadrants.  Practice loops.
• Walking Foot Sampler - pink sampler
• WF - work on Baby Quilt #2 - FINISH to binding!
• WF - Work on Baby Quilt #1 - finish to binding (another row borders????)
• 1 Hexie a day (NO catchups)
• LE - reds - slice and dice for Bow-da-cious
• Work on Sampler swap stuff and FINISH - I want to send THIS!!!!
• Back to Square One - the April block
• If possible - work on 96 mph - Broken dishes block

Back to Square One - needs April block

KITCHEN FOODS

• done Grocery shop (thank you son!) at Price Rite
• Make out "Needs/Wants" food list for next year and how much of each (figure I will put up whatever I have harvested anyway! LOL)
• Start making list of items for food preservation this year.  
• Check canning supplies and make plans for purchasing
• Ask on freecycle re jars/lids

Sampler blocks I still owe -
want to get these in the MAIL!
Need to double check
to make sure all are DONE!

MENU - Saturday

done (menu - and place change) B: McD Cheese egg steak bagel, caramel mocha (was supposed to be hot - but was good!  Fattening - but good! hard boiled eggs, cheese, challah and butter

done Moved this and pizza to Sunday - am eating grilled cheese sand for lunch today! L: Pioneer beef stew (has lima beans, onions,beef, green pepper, tomatoes, carrots and celery - crockpot) mashed potatoes (dumplings?) and biscuits on the side

Moved to Sunday - homemade Schav for dinner tonight D: Cheese pizza

You were just HOPIN' it was Thursday! It isn't! It's FRIDAY!!!!! YAY!!!!

If this post looks like yesterday's - go back to yesterday and read what happened! Just a very busy day - most of it a lot of fun - and exhausted! and had NOTHING to do with my list! 

HOUSE (15 minutes at a time!)  4 x 15.  Uh oh!  nada done!

• Zone 1 - Side porch - DECLUTTER 

  

  Peggy's picnic tablecloth - "gifted" to me by a friend.
  Needs tieing, binding.

• Zone 2 - Kitchen floor again
• Zone 2 - Shelves 3 and 4
• Zone 2 - kitchen table 
• Zone 3 - Laundry room - finish cleaning and set stuff back up - 
• We can remove stuff AGAIN when Nathan gets back to fixing shelves!
• Zone 3 - Sewing Room - ceiling, walls, windows.
• Zone 3 - Sewing Room - thoroughly dust
• Zone 3 - Sewing Room - move the furniture, dustmop and mop the floor

FMQ foot sampler - practice, practice, practice

 GARDEN (15 minutes at a time!) 4 x 15 (I've been spending entirely too long outside!) Here either!

• Work on Raspberry patch - tame the blasted thing! and put on wires!
• Prepare new beds for planting (onions, sweet potatoes, peas) 
• Set up fencing - Peas
• Set up fencing - beans
• Set up fencing - tomatoes
• Set up squash "trellis" using scrap lumber and poles
• Set up fencing - around new section of garden
• Rake leaves - back yard, bag and store for potato "bins"

STUDIES (15 minutes at a time!)  This will be a "Jump in where I am!"  No catchups allowed - UNTIL Sunday - which is alloted for that! ON HOLD FOR THIS WEEK

QUILT

I thought I did something yesterday -  beats me what it was!!!!

Walking Foot Sampler -
the OTHER practice, practice, practice!

• FMQ practice - Mark into quadrants.  Practice loops.
• Walking Foot Sampler - pink sampler
• WF - work on Baby Quilt #2 - FINISH to binding!
• WF - Work on Baby Quilt #1 - finish to binding (another row borders????)
• 1 Hexie a day (NO catchups)
• LE - reds - slice and dice for Bow-da-cious
• Work on Sampler swap stuff and FINISH - I want to send THIS!!!!
• Back to Square One - the April block
• If possible - work on 96 mph - Broken dishes block

KITCHEN FOODS

• Make out "Needs/Wants" food list for next year and how much of each (figure I will put up whatever I have harvested anyway! LOL)
• Start making list of items for food preservation this year.  
• Check canning supplies and make plans for purchasing
• Ask on freecycle re jars/lids

Mystery quilt - for 2010 - needs quilting -
table topper/wall hanging?

MENU - Friday
oops - no, it isn't Saturday - I am totally confused! (nothing new there!)

done B: Cinnamon toast for just because!  Tea (because I LIKE it!)

done L: lo cabbage soup, hard boiled egg, sourdough bread sticks

done D: Poached salmon with some sort of "sauce" - hollandaise????, re-hydrated and cooked green beans with onions, spices, rice - would PREFER mustard buttered potatoes!  Jello - or - better yet - homemade apple pie made from re-hydrated apples and LOTS of cinnamon!  Challah

And..... once again it is THURSDAY!!!!

Aaargh!  What is that old saw about the best laid plans of mice and men???  Oh well, then too - I'm WOMAN - not man! so why should yesterday be such a surprise to me?  Nice though it was!

I got a call 20 minutes before starting time (I was in my PJs, no lunch packed!) to please come in and substitute.  I did - and ended with several groups of 6th graders and 1 group of 8th graders.  

As per usual - the planned lesson plans lasted only about 20 minutes of the hour - Sooooooooooo   - we played games - sorta!  Games were based on the movie that the kids saw (all saw movie - 6th graders saw one of them and 8th graders saw a different one - and had a test!) - and based on either charades (fairly successful - first group), what's wrong with this picture (6th graders divided into groups and one group presented - not as successful) to ME presenting (yup - that was the fun ones! 

The food safety group - all the kids were engaged - and we all had fun while I (in my guise as super mess-up) walked through my day messing up as much as I could - kids told me what was wrong - we did get a bit loud though - when another teacher poked her head in the door and thought the kids were acting out (they weren't - I was in the poor me while contaminating everything in sight) - which I explained what we were doing and apologized for the noise, etc.  

The last group - we did a similar thing - only with Fast food choices - what would have been better? with me doing a grab and go skit of visiting McD, Burger K., or W's - this one was not as successful - but was fun, nontheless.!

Of course - after talking about food choices and Angus burgers (with fried onions) and hot caramel mochas and diet coke - and all the caffeine/sugar/salt/fat/chloresterol and on and on.... when school was over - I was starving!  

So I stopped at McD and got a Big Mac and hot caramel mocha with a large root beer on the side.  Makes sense, no????

Then I came home, collapsed on the bed and slept a solid 3 hours!  LOL  Needless to say - I did NOT get a lot done otherwise!  

On the picnic tablecloth front - I put out a "how do you thread it" question to a group of folks - and WOW did I get a lot of answers!  I guess I wasn't the only person out there who had problems threading a needle with yarn!  

On reconsideration though I DO think I will probably tie the tablecloth with embroidery floss rather than yarn - still would love to quilt some patterns on there - but tieing doesn't mean that I can't quilt later - when I know how!

HOUSE (15 minutes at a time!)  4 x 15. - I just picked up, put away - and said - NO - maybe on Friday!

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  Peggy's picnic tablecloth - "gifted" to me by a friend.
  Needs tieing, binding.

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FMQ foot sampler - practice, practice, practice

GARDEN (15 minutes at a time!) 4 x 15 (I've been spending entirely too long outside!)

• This didn't happen either!!!!
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STUDIES (15 minutes at a time!)  This will be a "Jump in where I am!"  No catchups allowed - UNTIL Sunday - which is alloted for that! 

During test/quiz time and the movie (there are only so many times you can see a movie!!!!) as well as during my prep time I studied and took notes on Botany - plant evolution.  This is part of my self-designed course of learning

QUILT

Walking Foot Sampler -
the OTHER practice, practice, practice!

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KITCHEN FOODS

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Baby Quilt #2 -
finish B2B quilt, then quilt borders, binding

MENU - Thursday

 done B: homemade Granola
  done L: Shells and cheese with green peas
 done D: Turkey loaf, rice, Green beans - rehydrated - onions and butter.  Jello????

Wednesday it is!

I copied Tuesday because I was NOT feeling so great - allergies?  Who knows!  Anyway - slept most of the day - and all night!  So - what I didn't finish YESTERDAY I hope to finish today.

I DID get 1 call to substitute - and - blast it anyway - hit the WRONG button - not once - but TWICE in the same phone call!!!!  Try again tomorrow!  Would have been an easy peasy day anyway - 3rd graders!!!! 

HOUSE (15 minutes at a time!)  4 x 15.

Hexies - with plastic bag they aren't nearly
as pretty as without the bag!

• Zone 1 - Side porch - DECLUTTER 
• Zone 2 - Kitchen floor again
• Zone 3 - Laundry room - finish cleaning and set stuff back up - 
• We can remove stuff AGAIN when Nathan gets back to fixing shelves!
• WHB again!!!!
• DONE Scrub floors 
• DONE Fresh sheets
• DONE Front and side porch doors and mirrors

Improv placemat (1 of 4) -
needs white bowl of strawberries, and a white plate 
of either strawberries or Kiwi fruit

GARDEN (15 minutes at a time!) 4 x 15 (I've been spending entirely too long outside!  But then (1) it's NICE out!  and (2) I can pretend I'm doing LOTS of exercise!!!)

• DONE Put manure on sweet corn bed
• DONE Put manure on Squash bed
• Work on Raspberry patch - tame the blasted thing! and put on wires!
• Prepare new beds for planting (onions, sweet potatoes, peas) 

STUDIES (15 minutes at a time!)  This will be a "Jump in where I am!"  No catchups allowed - UNTIL Sunday - which is alloted for that! ON HOLD FOR THIS WEEK

QUILT

Baby Quilt one - may or may not add borders.
Needs backing and quilting and binding - walking foot!

• I may tie a quilt - to finish up for the Stashbuster challenge - it's a picnic flimsy that Peggy had made and given to me.
• 1 Hexie a day (NO catchups)
• Back to Square One - the April block
• Walking Foot Sampler - pink sampler
• WF - work on Baby Quilt #1 - FINISH to binding!
• FMQ practice - Mark into quadrants.  Practice loops.
• If I get a chance - work on Sampler swap stuff and FINISH - I want to send THIS!!!!

Baby Quilt #2 -
Needs the rest of this walking foot quilted - including border, binding

KITCHEN FOODS

• DONE Stirred up and fed sourdough - divided into 2 parts - one for odd days, one for even (and don't even remind me that all my days are ODD!)
• DONE Make rolls and bread - actually making bread - a LOT of bread - will probably keep this in the refrig and just cook up some daily - maybe. 

• DONE Making hamburger rolls for tonight's dinner

• DONE Started soup in crockpot for tomorrow - whatever it is in the frozen container from the freezer - probably beef bouillion - will have probably a mix of beans for soup in it
• DONE Harvest whatever is in last year's cabbage beds!  this is still good to eat! - wash, slice, dice and freeze for more stir fry!  I think it is overgrown brussel sprouts and some collard greens (which look like they just came up this year!!!!
• DONE Harvest leeks (last year's) for soup - maybe Wednesday????  Will check out soup in crockpot - may set some aside so I can make cream of leek soup - thursday - to take with me for lunch if I'm subbing

MENU - Wednesday

DONE Yummy! B: Omelet with cheese (mixture of last of the gorgonzola and some mozzarella - YUM!, Green tea
DONE L: leftover stir fry with rice
DONE D: Ground Turkey cheese burgers, pickles, coleslaw from last of the cabbage, oniony plants, rice

Tuesday it is (almost)!!!

Tuesday I was NOT feeling so great - allergies?  Who knows!  Anyway - slept most of the day - and all night!  So - what I didn't finish YESTERDAY I hope to finish Wednesday

HOUSE (15 minutes at a time!)  4 x 15.

Hexies - with plastic bag they aren't nearly
as pretty as without the bag!

• Zone 1 - Side porch - DECLUTTER 
• Zone 2 - Kitchen floor again
• Zone 3 - Laundry room - finish cleaning and set stuff back up - 
• We can remove stuff AGAIN when Nathan gets back to fixing shelves!
• WHB again!!!!
• Scrub floors 
• Fresh sheets
• Front and side porch doors and mirrors

Improv placemat (1 of 4) -
needs white bowl of strawberries, and a white plate
of either strawberries or Kiwi fruit

GARDEN (15 minutes at a time!) 4 x 15 Tuesday - cold, wet, gloomy.  Brrrrrr! - Did NOT work in garden!

• Put manure on sweet corn bed
• Put manure on Squash bed
• Work on Raspberry patch - tame the blasted thing! and put on wires!
• Prepare new beds for planting (onions, sweet potatoes, peas) 
• Harvest whatever is in last year's cabbage beds!  this is still good to eat! - wash, slice, dice and freeze for more stir fry!  I think it is overgrown brussel sprouts and some collard greens (which look like they just came up this year!!!!
• Harvest leeks (last year's) for soup - maybe Wednesday????  Will check out soup in crockpot - may set some aside so I can make cream of leek soup - thursday - to take with me for lunch if I'm subbing

STUDIES (15 minutes at a time!)  This will be a "Jump in where I am!"  No catchups allowed - UNTIL Sunday - which is alloted for that! ON HOLD FOR THIS WEEK

QUILT - and here's where I got "stuck"!!!!  LOL - I put on the audio disc for Snow and Ashes (which I love!!!) and did that, sliced and diced some reds (not enough!), sewed together pink strings and cut them into 2.5 inch squares - CUTE CUTE CUTE!!!!  Will show pic next Monday on Design Wall.  About that point my energy totally left me and I started falling asleep at the machine.  Done for the day!

Baby Quilt one - may or may not add borders.
Needs backing and quilting and binding - walking foot!

• 1 Hexie a day (NO catchups)
• Back to Square One - the April block
• Walking Foot Sampler - pink sampler
• WF - work on Baby Quilt #1 - FINISH to binding!
• FMQ practice - Mark into quadrants.  Practice loops.
• If I get a chance - work on Sampler swap stuff and FINISH - I want to send THIS!!!!

Baby Quilt #2 -
Needs the rest of this walking foot quilted - including border, binding

MENU - Tuesday

DONE Yummy! B: Sourdough pancakes
DONE L: Tuna salad on homemade whole wheat bread
DONE D: White sauce Pizza with veggies

Monday - already?????

Egads - it is Monday already!!!!  Feels like I should have had another couple of weekend days in there somewhere!

Regardless - no matter how much I've tried to slow things down - the calendar (and time) does march on!  Geesh!

On the schedule for today's Superwoman (hahaahaaaa!!!!):

BTW -  you can see how much I DIDN'T get done last week!!!!  Spent too much time in the garden!

HOUSE (15 minutes at a time!)  4 x 15.

Sampler blocks I need to work on

• Zone 1 - Side porch - DECLUTTER 
• DONE Zone 2 - Kitchen - general
• DONE Zone 2 - Kitchen - the REFRIGERATOR  (SCARY!!!!!)
• DONE Zone 2 - Kitchen - the SHELVES!!!!!! - top 2
• DONE Zone 2 - Kitchen - Ceilings, walls, countertops, faucets, trashcan
• DONE Zone 2 - Stove top
• Zone 2 - Kitchen floor again
• WHB again!!!!
• DONE Dust
• DONE Dust Mop
• Scrub floors 
• DONE Sort Magazines/etc.
• DONE Trash and trashcans
• Do Tuesday Fresh sheets
• Front and side porch doors and mirrors

GARDEN (15 minutes at a time!) 4 x 15 (I spent entirely too long outside yesterday!)

Back to Square One Mystery BOM -
Needs April "doin's"

• DONE Weed Strawberries and clean up bed
• Work on Raspberry patch - tame the blasted thing! and put on wires!
• Harvest whatever is in last year's cabbage beds!  this is still good to eat!
• Prepare new beds for planting (onions, sweet potatoes, peas) 
• DONE IF possible - set up manure and mulch around fruit trees and bushes

STUDIES (15 minutes at a time!)  This will be a "Jump in where I am!"  No catchups allowed - UNTIL Sunday - which is alloted for that! ON HOLD FOR THIS WEEK

QUILT

Baby Quilt one - may or may not add borders.
Needs backing and quilting and binding - walking foot!

• 1 Hexie a day (NO catchups)
• Back to Square One - the April block
• Walking Foot Sampler - pink sampler
• WF - work on Baby Quilt #1 - FINISH to binding!
• FMQ practice - Mark into quadrants.  Practice loops.
• If I get a chance - work on Sampler swap stuff and FINISH - I want to send THIS!!!!

Baby Quilt #2 -
Needs the rest of this walking foot quilted - including border, binding

MENU

DONE B: Oatmeal
DONE L: Homemade vegetable soup
DONE Yum! D: Stir Fry (soy tofu????) with leafy greens, coles,