Monday.... or is it?

 I do like 3 day weekends.... even if they were a 4 day weekend for me with a call in sick Friday. 

Today was baking day - I made bagels this morning.  I really did make 8 - Greg and I both had one for lunch.  The first time I used regular flour and this time I used bread flour. I'll be making sure I have bread flour in the house from not on. So much better! I prepped these orange hexagons in the waiting times. All set for stitching in the car line this week. I had some extra cream backing that fit the smaller hexagon..... and figured maybe I'll quilt or embroider a pumpkin or something in there? We will see when I pull those to be worked on.

Next was a trip to Sams and Publix to pick up lunch meats and the things on my list that were not seen last week when Greg went to Sams- butter, chicken stock, Potstickers, salsa and I have been craving a roaster chicken so I got one for dinner tomorrow night. Tonight will be meatloaf. I still need to make a zucchini cake  and pin a quilt for machine quilting. Plenty of time. Not sure the garden will get tilled tonight when it cools down a bit, but there is always tomorrow. Thankfully I am feeling loads better today.

A little of this... a little of that....

 For a Monday, some things actually got done! After finishing up working, I took Emily to Joanns for her to grab a mask for girl scout camp and for me to get a backing for the graduation quilt. I also got a few yards of a white print for a background for those butterfly's. The mask selection was minimal, as you can imagine. We also did a stop at Publix to grab a few things we needed. The red border got sewn on after I filled another bobbin. I'm waiting for my pressor and then I'll make a small black border as I think it is already pretty much the size I was thinking. Pinning should happen later today....

I stitched up the third Harmony corner block before starting dinner - beef stroganoff. After kitchen clean up - I started a batch of bagels. I have never made them before but Greg and I have been talking about trying them and since I didn't do it Sunday... I did yesterday. They came out of the oven last night and of the 8 made - there were only 5 left this morning. Seems we all tried them out (Emily had half of my plain one and part of Greg's everything one) - Greg said they were better than the Thomas Bagels! Pretty easy to make and I just used the regular flour I had on hand. I tried this recipe and added the everything bagel seasoning on 6 of the 8. I left 2 plain for me!  While the dough was rising, I finished off making some red pepper hummus for the fridge. My afternoon snack with carrots or peppers or cucumbers.

I am caught up with the hexagons this month and managed to play with a few leftover blocks on Sunday for the purple month. I think one will become a hot mat - the friendship stars - and the other a little table quilt - maybe hand quilted? We will see how the month goes! I think these both finish around 12 inches.