Year of Projects: Week 10

     It's already been a busy week as I predicted.  On Wednesday after I left for work, this happened.

She is from my parents farm.  We all kind of had an eye on her for awhile now.  The kids have been wearing me down for months.  I've been calling her Nyx, but I don't know if that will be the final name.  She and Jangles have been playing like crazy.  Everyone else has accepted her pretty decently as well.  Reese and Tali, who hate everyone except eachother,  have been just avoiding her mostly.  Edi is fairly indifferent, although I think she may be a little jealous as she and Jangles played together quite a bit.  Nyx already prances around her like she owns the place, so all in all it's been a pretty smooth introductory period.

     Jangles got out again and luckily came back again.  The screen has been put back on the garage window so there should be no more escaping cats.  We were planning on making some sort of insulted cat house for Twinks the outdoor cat.  Now that we took away his garage access we are definitely making him a structure.  But we don't have to worry about cold weather yet.  

     Liara had a good first day of school.  We actually had a heat advisory yesterday.  I never remember the first day of school being this warm and still buggy.  We waited for the bus on the front porch, it was already hot at 8AM and we still got mobbed by mosquitos, it was unreal.

Today is supposed to be even hotter.

     So in my last post I mentioned a swap package, well here it is:

I received two bags, point protectors, buttons, yarn, blank note cards, a book of postcards, a cat necklace and gummy bears.  The postcards are especially cool because I get to color them in first.  I've only recently found I like to color.  The yarn is Malabrigo Rios in the Matisse Blue colorway.  Malabrigo is hands down my favorite yarn brand.  

     I haven't done any new crafting yet this week.  I did get the ends woven in on that other fingerless mitt.  Then I washed and blocked them with my new mitten blockers.  The Sunset bled like crazy, but I knew it would.  I used that same yarn for my Sophie Shawl and the color was bleeding onto my fingers as I was knitting it.  I have yet to wash that piece.  I haven't mustered up the energy to deal with the bleeding problem yet.  

     I have done a fair amount of cooking so far this week.  I did up the chicken on Monday in the rotisserie.  We got the Showtime rotisserie at a garage sale soon after we moved in.  We've used it several times.  Its not worth whatever they were charging new, but it works great for chicken and I'm glad my husband snagged it.  I sadly don't have pictures of the chicken because we absolutely annihilated that thing on Monday.  It turned out really good.  I used Lowrey's chicken and poultry rub for the seasoning.  Tuesday I took the carcass and made a simple chicken and rice soup.  This time I was careful about how much I made.  I've got just enough for work this week.  Liara wanted tacos for dinner on her first day of school so that's what we had last evening.  My plan is to do pizza tonight.  I picked up BJs store brand pizza sauce and name brand fresh mozzarella when I was there.  I've not tried either before, so dinner is going to be an expirament.  I use the dough setting on my bread machine to make this dough recipe: pizza dough.  We have a pizza stone that is rated for the grill, so we do it on that.  The pizza stone was a huge game changer for us.  It really makes a  significant difference in the crust consistency and flavor.  I got mine off Amazon and it was under $40.  If I had to limit the extra cooking items in my house for some reason, the pizza stone would be at the top of my "to keep" list.  I'll try to remember to take pictures.

     I've got two quick projects I want to get done in the next few weeks.  With it being so hot I haven't really had much of a desire to knit, so we'll see.

Until later.  Happy Crafting!!!

-Q