Crazy hot

 And yet, I'm still cooking!

Sunday night I roasted some veggies, Emily cooked up some hot italian sausage and we added penne pasta for dinner with some garlic bread. It is one of her favorite meals and we had not had it in a while. She was busy in the kitchen on Monday - and made Macaroons and back of the bag oatmeal bread from the king arthur flour website. Both were yummy. 

After work Monday, I had planned meatloaf for dinner but forgot to grab ground pork at the market on Sunday, so went to Publix to get that. I did ask if we needed anything. Nope. I walked back in the house and Emily looked at me with a guilty face.... we are out of Lactaid milk. Sigh, I use that in cooking so she can eat what we eat. She used the last of it in her baking. Arrrggghhh. It was HOT outside. Like feels like 110 + outside. I needed it, so went to Aldi this time since their milk is cheaper than Publix. Got home with the milk and proceeded to make meatloaf and baked potato. Unfortunately, it is a 90 minute bake so dinner was a wee bit later at closer to 6:30. It was yummy though, and the leftovers are vanishing fast. 

Tuesday we are headed to see Grandma and go out to dinner with her. She gave us Pig and Cattle or Outback as options. I told her it was a 2/2 tie she had to break. She went with Outback as we did Pig and Cattle last time. I've not seen her since before the trip, so it was nice to check in with her. This pretty monarch butterfly was hanging out on her lawn.

 I took chicken out of the freezer for Chicken Tikka Masala on Wednesday night. Alas, it did not thaw in time (we have the big freezer set to 0). I used one piece in a pan with greek seasonings instead, pulled a baggie of falafel out of the freezer and made some tzatziki and that was dinner with a salad.

I just prepped the rest of the chicken this morning for Chicken Tikka Masala for dinner this evening with rice. It was mostly thawed, and with it cut up in the yogurt sauce, it should be fine in time to cook it up tonight. 

I have spent way too much time scrolling on my phone and not stitching this week. The very little stitching was getting these two shoo fly blocks done. Here Peanut is 'helping' hold them down.

His brother Ollie decided to get up and help as well, although I think he just wanted petting!

The girls think it is hot outside! Their production has gone down a bit, but they are staying hydrated and get plenty of shade time and some roaming time in the back yard. We had a few days with only 1 egg, but I think I got 3 yesterday. 

We are waiting a bit to go see Tom. He tends to like to go to lunch at 11:30, so we will head over to visit about an hour after that. 

As it is the last day of July... and I have yet to finish a quilt this year I plan to actually roll the Arkansas Traveller onto the boards today and get that pin basted. I feel the need to see something get done, and that is the closes to the finish line at this point. So, that is my plan today. Play with that quilt and get it pressed, rolled and find the pins and get it pinned for machine quilting. I think the hold up is that I have no idea how to machine quilt it. Sigh. It will probably just be straight line outlining, as I am not good at free motion quilting. I'd better go get them pressed and rolled, before we head out.