This last weekend I was able to sit down and get some cards made. Mistakes happened but I learned a few new things and am happy with how the cards turned out.
Alas, not all the cards arrived in time, but I hope they will get there soon.
Until next time, stay healthy.
Welcome to spring. Please bring out your spring, summer, fall and winter wardrobes. You will need them.
I took a week off work and made a list of things I should do while I was off.
It took a few days to tear up the list.
The whole purpose of time off is to relax and not be consumed by the need to produce something.
Instead, I need to relax and reset, recharge as it were and enjoy the company of the hubbinator. Everything will be there tomorrow, and if it isn’t maybe it wasn’t important.
Until next time, stay healthy.
There’s always someone who eats the leftovers, until the leftovers are popular then there are the secret eaters who eat the leftovers first.
I am currently reading 6 Degrees. The culmination of climate modeling from early in this century. Not all the predictions have occurred. Modeling does have it’s limits, usually based on information and the fact that the planet is extremely complex.
The apocalyptic author in me loves everything about the book. (no judgment please).
But what I find really fascinating is the evidence from paleoclimatology. Imagine the Great Plains as a giant sand box. Imagine the Sahara as a forest and savannah. Imagine a 600 year drought. Fascinating. And despite the dangers of going down a rabbit hole, I am now looking for books on the topic.
Any suggestions?
Until next time, stay healthy.
I had hoped to make a few more pieces of jewelry this weekend, but time sped by too quickly. Here are my latest projects:
Until next time, stay healthy.
You can’t finish unless you start.
This week’s round of card-making featured cutouts and windows, and, of course, St. Patrick’s Day. I do like the fancy cutouts but need to add plain ones to my stash.
Until next time, Happy St. Paddy’s Day and stay healthy.
I am proud to say in the last months I have tried several new recipes. Frankly, there was one real stinker in the bunch that didn’t get saved and shall not be named. I just hoped I marked it as don’t be fooled again.
I made a bean side dish that was like a salsa except not as spicy. I will fix that next time.
I made 2 coffee cakes–one with sour cream and one with shortening. The sour cream was moisture; however, the main takeaway was to make them in bundt pans not a casserole dish. It’s faster.
A peach cobbler with 3 ingredients and a lesson to mix the cake mix into the liquid or there will be powdery bits.
I made the delicious Tony’s Crawfish Stew Emile with 2 pounds of shrimp instead of one pound of crawfish and I threw in a whole bag of okra, because I love okra.
I also made Chinese Chicken with Russian dressing. Throughout the process, I kept singing these lines “Chickity China, the Chinese chicken You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'” Yes, I did make it with only drumsticks.
Here’s the song, so you can hear it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmNoVLvCRrI
Next time, I promise to remember to take pictures. Stay healthy.
Nothing spoils the sound of rain quite like an alarm clock reminding you it’s time to go to work.
Linda Andrews 