It was supposed to be a pretty busy week this week, with the Teen Book Club on Monday, playdate on Tuesday, Spanish class, ds#1's guitar lesson, and LEGO Club on Wednesday, biology labs on Thursday, and ceramics on Friday, but ds#1 inconveniently (or is it conveniently?) caught something and started showing symptoms on Sunday, so we had to cancel activities for Monday and Tuesday (in case he was infectious, and so that he could recuperate).
Since I have a 2 day reprieve, I'm going to get cracking on 1) blogging - reading and writing, 2) making paper for an order, and 3) reading the biology textbook because I'm waaay behind.
A quick look at the weeks past...this is one of the pretty leaf dishes that we made last month. This one is made by ds#2, my 11 year old. I love the color and used it for our Artfire store banner.
I made a butter tart square a couple of weeks ago, and it was so tasty, I made it again when Meg (Get In, Hang On) visited on Saturday:
Last, last Friday, I finally had a free day with no obligations and could lounge around in my hand-knit chitin socks and read:
We finally got around to making bath fizzies that Anne-Marie (Soap and the Finer Things in Life) showed how to do last year. Here's ds#1 spritzing with rubbing alcohol while I mixed:
The mixture crammed into the molds:
We waited too long to pop them out so some of the fizzies broke while we were getting them out. These ones managed to survive, and are kind of cute!
We had the last watermelon from our garden a couple of weeks ago. It was surprisingly tasty for a late season melon.
I made pie crusts for quiche last, last weekend using the recipe in How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. It was really delish!
I do love my decorative edges. Alas, this is the only one I know how to do:
We've been harvesting beet greens for our salads. Is this not a beauty?
And also beeeeyoootiful is our broccoli - and sweet and tasty too:
Some cool nights have forced us to cover some crops with row covers. See the frost on the cabbage plants?
Sunrise over the covered crops...another day on the homestead begins:
As you may have noticed, the trees are in their lovely colors now (and rapidly fading). How are the colors where you are?"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams
21 comments:
I hope your son feels better soon!!! Not fun being sick :(
Your new creation for artfire is great. I must hop over there to see the new banner.
You are a busy bee, lots of goodies at your house. Your handmade pie crust looks delicious.
Have you tried out the fun bath fizzies yet? They turned out cute. Are those some halloween images I see?
What kind of pies are going in the crust? (drool...)
Doesn't your shadow talk to you?
wow, so much accomplished! our trees have all started changing finally! lots of oranges, yellows, golds and browns!
thank you for your last post about Under the Willow Wonders. I decided to check it out and ordered the Lavender laundry soap from her. I can't wait to try it!
I hope your son feels better soon!
Meanwhile, I'd love to see more directions or recipes or links on all this homemade stuff you do!
I think I want to live at your house.
I'm with Lorie- I want to live at your house too!
I hope your son feels better and no one else gets sick... I LOVE LOVE LOVE the plate DS#2 made- it is just beautiful.
Fun to catch up on things I bet...sometimes I think we get "under the weather" for our bodies (and households) to take a bit of a needed holiday.
Take care & hugs to all!
get well soon!
the bath fizzies look good
I second Lorie--I'd like to move in as well. I would be interested to taste that watermelon, as well as the butter tart. Did you post a recipe for that?
Mmmm...you're making me hungry!
Hope DS feels better soon!
I'm so glad you liked the candy corn queen!
You are very busy. The watermelon looked yummy.
May I suggest you open a guest house so that all your admirers can come and stay with you? Put me down for a visit soon :) Your cooking always leaves me drooling...
Hope your son gets better soon, no fun being ill.
Another great post!
Michelle, thanks! Yup, those are Halloween bath fizzies, and they turned out pretty nicely (would have been even better if I'd popped them out sooner.
Blonde Duck, quiches went into those crusts, but I made 2 more crust yesterday and "pumpkin" (I subbed in acorn squash) filling went into those. :> I haven't talked to my shadow in years...must be an age thing...LOL!
Heather, you will looove Carrie's laundry detergent! I keep sniffing my clean clothes...LOL!
Wendy, thanks for the reminder! I really need to post more recipes and directions.
Lorie, oh, you wouldn't once you see how totally lame my Halloween decorating skills are! ;D
Carrie, you are a dear, as usual! I think ds#2 did a nice job on the leaf too. We're fulfilling a couple of ceramics order right now, but hope to have time to make some more leaf plates soon.
Misty, the fizzies turned out quite nicely...all the kids I know who tried them love them, and all the adults love the pumpkin spice scent! ;)
Allison, will post the butter tart square recipe tonight! The watermelon was not quite as good as a mid summer one, but was still pretty tasty nonetheless.
Elizabeth, sorry to make you hungry...LOL!
Eclectic, I do feel like I'm pretty busy, but it keeps me out of trouble! ;)
Diane, we have a shed and an outhouse...does that count? LOL! And thanks, my dear!
that broccoli is amazing! wow.
it must get just a little colder where you are. we haven't had that hard of a frost here.
cosmo loved the fizzies!
oh, and i love the mark bittman pie crust. if you ever want to make the best apple pie in the universe, follow his recipe in that book!
Well, I'm late on this, but I do not know how you do so much! I wish my kids were into Legos. We have a homeschool FLL team in the area that has won national awards! Do you do biology labs with a group. High school science has been hard for us. I am finding that I don't enjoy high school homeschooling much. I like learning alongside my kids, but at the high school level, it kind of ceases to be fun IMHO. My kids like it, but this is the 2nd time around for me and I don't want to relearn biology, chemistry, calculus, etc. So we've been taking advantage of the community college's program for high schoolers. Fortunately, they have done well and enjoy the classes. I still am doing all of their languages at home (could they all settle on one language? No.... I'm teaching Latin, Spanish, and Japanese, but have hired a tutor for French). I am teaching biology, but not chemistry. Last year, we did conceptual physics with virtual labs for physics and that was fine, but I refuse to teach any more hardcore physics. Also, I am teaching highschool literature, psychology, and digital photography at home, but I enjoy those subjects.
Ugh. Everyone is so sick everywhere, I hope he feels better soon! I want a pair of those socks SO BAD!
This is such a generic comment, but I love everything! Your socks are awesome, I would love to remember to get a copy of the Farm Chicks book, Your veggies look delish, I love the garden pictures, and the leaf bowl is great! Oh and pie crust edges: kudos to you. Mine always look like crap. I just cannot get a good decorative edge on my crusts to save my life. :(
The squares look amazing, and your pie crust is lovely! :) Mine are usually rather... shall we say 'rustic'? Nicely done. :)
Cake, so glad Cosmo likes the fizzies! I think our valley tends to be a bit colder than most places, and, due to the effect of urban heat islands, we are generally colder than in town. Thanks for letting me know about Bittman's apple pie! I have to try it.
Maureen, you are too kind...I know I do far less than you do, and probably much less well too. For instance, you are teaching more languages than I am! We're only tackling Mandarin, French and Spanish.
I have forgotten so many things I've learned in high school that I don't mind re-learning with the kids. When one's memory is bad, everything is a brand new experience...LOL!
Our local university offers online/correspondence high school classes, and ds#1 has taken a few, but most things we can learn on our own just as well if not better. But it's nice to know that it's there for us to use if we want to.
Dh can teach everything math and science related, and, in fact, will be teaching them computer science (programming) soon, and I can tackle most other things. I'm only worried about getting a suitable transcript/portfolio together.
Julie, the socks are cute, but they are my least favorite. If your feet are size 5.5, I'll give them to you. :)
Amber, the Farm Girl book has some nice recipes, but I am glad I didn't buy it...not completely my style. Thanks for all the exclamation-point-punctuated compliments, BTW, LOL!
Sherrie, rustic is nice too! I just happen to not be able to leave a pie crust alone; I am compelled to crimp it. ;}
I do that same pie crust design. Also, the only one I know. Still tastes yummy.
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