Where do the days go?

June 4, 2020

I was going to upload photos of the quilt that is on my frame and talk about that today. Somehow it seems to have got very late and I am not up to sorting out the pictures right this second. I guess that will be tomorrow’s blog. I did make some progress on the Monday quilt today. It is much easier to see before breakfast when it is a bit overcast. The sun is blinding on hotter days. I have high hopes for tomorrow morning too as the forecast is more grey.

After dog walking and floors I managed to get a really good run on my quilt on the frame. I don’t know if I mentioned, but the day I started it I couldn’t get my parallel lines even close. They were horrible and had to come out. That threw me for a while, I knew I wanted that pattern but what if I wasn’t able to quilt it. It seems the day I started was just a bad day. They happen and usually I now realise and just give quilting a miss. For some reason on this occasion I really thought it was that the design I had chosen was beyond me. Why, no idea, but I am very very pleased I didn’t give up on the design I wanted as I really love it.

This evening after doggy playtime, which is now the fun relaxing time I had been hoping for, it was cooking time. The weather forecast says we are due high winds so we decided we had to harvest the elderflower today. Those have been turned into a couple of lifers of cordial. If any survives the high winds I will go out with steps and harvest a bit more. I also need to get this round of icecream ingredients processed into icecream before they go off. So the first 2 batches are now done, the other 2 will be tomorrow. The lemon sorbet will wait a day or two I think. I know it sounds a bit frantic, but deliveries come when I can get them and when I have things I have to deal with them before they go off. The flip side is we usually have well stocked freezer and cupboard now, which I am loving.

Now I really need to just sit down for a few minutes, before I release the hound to theoretically come and sit with me. In practice he will want to play with the cats and hump my feet. He is a hormonal teenager, sitting quietly just isn’t an option.