I am still having my friend Eliyah visit me after school several days a week. I decided to make some oatmeal cookies for him, and for the hungry guy who lives with me. I rooted around in my several recipe boxes for the recipe. Actually, I discovered I had three in use at the same time. An excellent time to combine them all into one. The recipe I wanted was for "the best Oatmeal cookies ever" on the circular insert from a small can of Quaker oats. At last I found it. I have chosen the painted box for my only, albeit stuffed, official recipe box, In addition to sheets printed off the internet and stored in a loose-leaf binder, of course.
The cookies were deemed a great success and were eaten in about 3 days.
While eating lunch out with a friend, I made the acquantance of a young lady staging an art show. Somehow I ended up helping her sew some curtains. 10 and 12 foot curtains! It was quite a project and had a short time-line too. Soon the whole house was draped with white fabric. All the furniture was moved to provide enough space to measure and cut the pieces.
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| The curtains are hanging from our balcony. It helped to keep them from being wrinkled. |
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| Incredibly the 18 curtains got rolled up onto these tubes, though it was very acrobatic for my Husband and I for about an hour! |
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| Delivery to the head of the project. |
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| It's a large room and very tall and the curtains will be hung from the ceiling. I spent a while on a ladder recently, cleaning the gutters and found it very tiring indeed. These people are younger than me so maybe it won't be so bad. |
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| The beautiful decorations in the background are made of butter. |
The show, "Bloomington Katmandu" opens on May the 28th at 5pm. I hope Eliyah can come, the Tibetan Cultural Center on Snoddy road is very impressive and there are Prayer Wheels and small Temples outside among the trees. We plan to go on the opening day. The show lasts for three weeks. You are all invited, and not to look at all my white curtains!
Mother's Day was lovely. I received a dozen roses on the Friday before and they were beautiful all week. I got a coupon for a free ticket at the Museum in Indy and a $25 gift certificate to the restaurant there, a wonderful amber and silver ring, a song, $25 on Amazon, where we frequently order stuff, and a gift certificate to our local butcher's! Also many cards and letters and phone calls. My local Daughter and her partner came over and had tea with us around four in the afternoon. They brought a new-to-me jam called F.R.O.G. That's fig, raspberry, orange and ginger. I have been "lasting" it but it is almost gone. Really yummy! A wonderful day. It is good on Mother's Day to have seven children!
Eliyah and I went to the Butchers' Block on Wednesday afternoon. I could not resist spending the whole thing at one time. I bought four pounds of their Indiana Platter bacon, four pounds of their special, ground sirloin, two pounds of pork tenderloin, and the rest in beef stew meat. Then I geared up to put it all into the freezer, in individual portions, of course.
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| Getting it out. |
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| The bacon and the pork. |
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| The ground sirloin. Two scoops weighs about four ounces. If we are having hamburgers, I may get out two bags and we may have quarter pounders but in the spaghetti sauce I only put four ounces and it may do for two meals. In theory, this eleven pounds of meat will provide us with about forty-four meals of the very best quality meat available in this town, I believe. |
