It was for the best that we canceled the family trip, my brother now has rebound covid and is testing positive again. Poor guy.
It has rained more in the past week than most of the summer here, many of the thunderstorms missed us but now we're getting it. Almost two inches over last weekend and early in the week and probably another inch or so due to the tropical storm. We won't get the worst of it. The temps have been in the 70s and it's glorious.
Since I took time off, I decided to actually enjoy it, so I've been playing video games, sewing buttonholes on my waistcoat, spinning and reading. The buttonholes hurt my fingers so I'm doing one a day.
I'm currently watching the olympic climbing events which are extremely cool and also stressful when they fall. I watched the first of the speed competition which is just wildly fast, the bouldering which was very cool and now watching lead, which is the really tall, long climb. I say "oh no" out loud a lot.
Last weekend I made Chocolate Elk, recipe courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
graydon which, the pun makes me laugh every time and it has made anyone I've told laugh. I didn't go to the farmers market, so I didn't get cherries, but I did get strawberries at the co-op and made a strawberry topping with slightly more peppermint fresh from my pot. I've also eaten it with mint chocolate chip ice cream on top which was also delicious. Did I forget to put a sheet pan under the springform pan, butter leaked out and set all the fire alarms off? Yes. But I did clean the bottom of the oven for the first time and it was gross.
I need to do some food prep this weekend and figure out what I want to bake this weekend. Granola and yogurt are for sure and hmm. cake? cookies? I did just try a new recipe so I could do some of my standard recipes.
I've called the endo office twice this week, taking the appt option on the phone tree takes me to a line that no one answers and I left a message both times, but no one has called me back. Not sure what's up with that but I'll give it another week, make one more call and then go back to my primary care doctor to see wtf
I have been fighting with a mouse that has taken up residence in my closet wall between the drywall layers. It is so loud and obnoxious, it bangs around the heating pipes, it's been dismantling the drywall in that area, it runs around doing stuff at night. I didn't know where it was at first, but found it last night. It climbed up my storage shelves and was eating the leaves off the two small trees (one chestnut, one hazelnut) that I managed to germinate after the first batch were eaten by critters outside. It was also eating out of food bowls that I had left laying around, so that one's on me, so I have been making sure to take those to the kitchen all the time now. I set two snap traps in the closet and when I opened it, I heard it scramble down into the basement. It's been eating the poison, so I hope it dies soon. It's been waking me up a lot.
I've also been working on weaving, finished some samples and washed them, so I could check the sett and I adjusted it, so my warp will be shorter than planned and also I'm going through the yarn really fast so it might be narrower than planned. But it's all yardage that I'm hoping to make into things to sell in the guild show and sale, so I'm not too worried about it. I'm thinking bags with a canvas lining and a tablet woven handle. Something like that.
It has rained more in the past week than most of the summer here, many of the thunderstorms missed us but now we're getting it. Almost two inches over last weekend and early in the week and probably another inch or so due to the tropical storm. We won't get the worst of it. The temps have been in the 70s and it's glorious.
Since I took time off, I decided to actually enjoy it, so I've been playing video games, sewing buttonholes on my waistcoat, spinning and reading. The buttonholes hurt my fingers so I'm doing one a day.
I'm currently watching the olympic climbing events which are extremely cool and also stressful when they fall. I watched the first of the speed competition which is just wildly fast, the bouldering which was very cool and now watching lead, which is the really tall, long climb. I say "oh no" out loud a lot.
Last weekend I made Chocolate Elk, recipe courtesy of
graydon which, the pun makes me laugh every time and it has made anyone I've told laugh. I didn't go to the farmers market, so I didn't get cherries, but I did get strawberries at the co-op and made a strawberry topping with slightly more peppermint fresh from my pot. I've also eaten it with mint chocolate chip ice cream on top which was also delicious. Did I forget to put a sheet pan under the springform pan, butter leaked out and set all the fire alarms off? Yes. But I did clean the bottom of the oven for the first time and it was gross. I need to do some food prep this weekend and figure out what I want to bake this weekend. Granola and yogurt are for sure and hmm. cake? cookies? I did just try a new recipe so I could do some of my standard recipes.
I've called the endo office twice this week, taking the appt option on the phone tree takes me to a line that no one answers and I left a message both times, but no one has called me back. Not sure what's up with that but I'll give it another week, make one more call and then go back to my primary care doctor to see wtf
I have been fighting with a mouse that has taken up residence in my closet wall between the drywall layers. It is so loud and obnoxious, it bangs around the heating pipes, it's been dismantling the drywall in that area, it runs around doing stuff at night. I didn't know where it was at first, but found it last night. It climbed up my storage shelves and was eating the leaves off the two small trees (one chestnut, one hazelnut) that I managed to germinate after the first batch were eaten by critters outside. It was also eating out of food bowls that I had left laying around, so that one's on me, so I have been making sure to take those to the kitchen all the time now. I set two snap traps in the closet and when I opened it, I heard it scramble down into the basement. It's been eating the poison, so I hope it dies soon. It's been waking me up a lot.
I've also been working on weaving, finished some samples and washed them, so I could check the sett and I adjusted it, so my warp will be shorter than planned and also I'm going through the yarn really fast so it might be narrower than planned. But it's all yardage that I'm hoping to make into things to sell in the guild show and sale, so I'm not too worried about it. I'm thinking bags with a canvas lining and a tablet woven handle. Something like that.
