Slow Sunday stitching...

It has been a slow week for any hand stitching. I did manage to add a few rows to the knitted dish cloth. I do love my bamboo needles. 

 This morning I finished up the last 5 of my QAYG hexagons that I prepped yesterday. There are 32 this month... when I counted I had 26... even though I thought I had done 27. Turns out the red sox one was below the tin and in the cover so I didn't see it until after I had prepped the 5 to finish off the month. Oh well, an extra never hurts anything. I'm excited to prep some purple for the month of June with the RSC Challenge.  So far we have done pink, yellow, dark green, light blue and red. Purple will be a nice addition to the hexies.

I just tossed out some treats for the chickens and they all came running! As you can tell from the crispy grass we are really needing rain in my part of Florida. Looks like we get a chance of rain each day this week but we will see if we really get any or not.

Karen had made some granola and posted a photo on her blog.... which got me searching recipes and I'm going to give this one a try today. I think Greg and Em will be making a cheesecake today as well for tomorrow. I have the other 8+ pounds of pork shoulder in the crock pot today working on some pulled pork for the freezer. The recipe is in my recipe tab. 

I'm off to the sewing room to wrangle up a little more red before a good house cleaning happens. The girl finally woke up around 11AM so vacuuming can happen how! 

Linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

Saturday in red

 I have been concentrating on the graduation quilt this week with pops of red. I still need to make a couple of my red blocks for the month... but it is a long holiday weekend for me so I should be able to knock those off while in the sewing room working on finishing this quilt into a top.

15 blocks completed of 24 for the graduation quilt - disappearing 9 patch. Even the cat toy was red in the upper left hand corner!

Linking up with the RSC Challenge.

I took one cat to the vet yesterday and the other goes next week. I got him the annual shots we were late on. No real help on the aggression issue that started late Wednesday night (my normal vet was out so I went to the other one in the office). They did recommend a plug in that calms cats and helps deter aggressive behavior, peeing outside the box and scratching.  Who knew they had such a thing? This is the  spray. 

I'm happy to say there was no hissing, yowling and chasing last night, but the boys are still not acting like they did for 3 years. A tolerable truce right now but they are not friendly toward each other at all. Separately, they each purr and love petting and attention. I got one of the plug ins and have more on order and a spray coming. 

I saw a great deal yesterday at a local grocery store - pork shoulder for 99 cents a pound with card! They were huge - I got the smallest at 18.72 pounds. $72 down to $18 and change was too good of a deal to pass up. It was cut into a 10 pound and 8.72 pound portion all packaged in one sealed pouch. The bigger portion barely fit in my oval crock pot but it got made into Carnitas yesterday and overnight. I sealed 4 family size bags for the deep freezer and have a large glass container filled for the weekend meals (carnitas and cuban sandwiches) and grazing. Emily and I might have taste tested last night before bed and she had a bowl for breakfast this morning! The other portion will go into the crockpot later today once I pick up honey for the pulled pork recipe. I expect similar containers for the freezer from that portion - so at least 10 family meals of meat.... not to mention leftovers. =). I got to use some math skills - I had to double and a half the carnita recipe and triple the pulled pork recipe - based on the pork size. 

Off to horses today with the girl then pool time. It might be warm enough for me now and if not... the mid 90 temp and feels like higher should get me in there for a bit.

Sunday results...

It was a Sunday day of stitching.... with a little shopping for scouts and food mixed in. I got a later start than I had planned in the sewing room.... something about getting into a book and reading until 1:15AM Sunday morning......

I did get some good progress on the green and cream log cabins. These take a lot longer than I think they will! They are fun to make though.

These will just need another couple of logs added and then they should hit the 12.5 inches I am shooting for. I think there are 10 close to being done and I started a couple more with the bits I trimmed off. That's the fun thing about this one.. you keep making scraps to start new log cabins as you go!

Dinner

is all set so maybe I can add some logs this afternoon after picking up the kids.


Just need to make sure I am all set for scouts - my 4 juinors will be working on a badge and learning about the 70s, making chocolate fondue and tye dye shirts. Should be fun!