Saturday, August 17, 2019

The Street Party last night was good – supper was some veggie pakoras from one of our excellent Indian restaurants, dessert was the best blackberry shortcake on the street (from the Townsite Heritage Society) and my snack before leaving was some bannock from the folks at Sliammon. It took us almost three hours to wander up and down Marine as there were lots of stops to listen to music or visit with friends.

Today I’m having a great day. I did some web updates for the Hall this morning, as well as some for myself. I made great progress on clearing my cutting table and cleared enough space to cut fabric for another miniature quilt and two more cards. So I have lots to do for Tuesday’s bee. All that and three loads of laundry before lunch.

This afternoon I’ve been making use of my cleared-off working table and I’ve been working on The Princess and the Pea. I tried a new method to eliminate knots in the back of the fabric but realized not many threads in that taking stitches out (when I make a mistake) is a problem. So I went back to the “old” way which is working just fine.

The apples on our tree are falling off, although they don’t seem all that ripe when you eat them. I found a recipe for an Apple Caramel Sticky Pudding that I wanted to try so when Pat went out for groceries this morning I suggested he buy some caramel sauce and some ice cream. He came back with groceries for supper, groceries for Texada, and groceries for me while he is gone. Sadly he didn’t remember either the caramel sauce or the ice cream so my baking will have to wait – because, seriously, even apple crisp needs ice cream!

I’m not complaining though as I’m loving being at home (as opposed to Texada) and cross stitching.