By the time you read this, we expect to be at Timothy Lake, in Mount Hood National Forest, where we plan to do some hiking. Much of my time during the week was taken up with preparations, but we managed to work in a trip to Good Dog and Rimrock Trail for a three-mile hike on Thursday.
A couple of friends met us at the trailhead with their dog, Winger, who is known for absconding, the way our Rocky did when he was young. Winger did pretty well coming back to our group during our hike, though. (I had brought along a squeaker in my pocket, and that may have helped.) It wasn't too hot, but a lot of people were there, considering it was a work day for most people.
We ate our lunch at the beach, where the dogs had access to water and got to chase each other. They had a great time running around and playing, either in the water or in the dust.
I imagine the water was cold, but it didn't seem to bother the four-leggeds, who delighted in going after sticks thrown into the water.
We had a couple of issues, first with the Walk for a Dog app, which somehow thought we were starting at Pine Nursery. I had to restart the app after we had walked for a bit and I discovered the problem. That's why the map shows us starting in one place and ending up in another. We actually started at the parking lot and ended up there (red icon). The green icon shows where we restarted the app. The other issue was where we took the wrong trail at one point and had to turn around. That trail ended at a fence, and you can see this on the map, with a detour that ends at the park boundary, in the northeast quadrant of the map.
I was happy to rest after we got home. So were Dusty and Sandy, who undoubtedly put in a lot more mileage than the human participants did, and many more steps, even if you divide their steps by two.
We've been getting the trailer ready for our trip. One of the big jobs is making the bed, after washing the sheets and duvet cover. What makes it difficult is that the mattress is surrounded on 3+ sides by walls. That means making the bed while kneeling on top of the mattress. Fortunately, it isn't too hard to pull the mattress up one corner at a time or one side/end at a time. Eventually it gets done. Not extremely neat, but this is as neat as it gets, because what you see is before anyone has slept in it.
Tuesday was our biweekly Madroña Vineyards pop-up Zoom meeting. Some of the people had gone on a cruise with the owners to Portugal, where wines were discussed and consumed. For these meetings, I usually try to fix something halfway decent for supper to go with our wine. A few days before, we had cooked some cod, which fell apart. We had eaten the larger pieces that night, then had some of it in fish chowder. There was still some cooked cod left that needed to be eaten, so I made fish tacos. Taco Tuesday!
Our Walmart doesn't sell fabric by the yard anymore, so when I bought the nylon tulle to make scrubbies, I had to get three yards of it. I made two last week and another scrubby this week. This time I used this pattern. It had the advantage of being different from the others I made, and therefore more interesting. It has rows of double crochet and half-double crochet. You make two circles and then join them together with a slip stitch. It was pretty easy.
The Love of Spiders shawl is coming along. The rows are very long!
The whole-cloth quilt is also showing some progress. I've been trying to work on it more than the shawl when we're home, because I can't take it with me when we go camping. I don't know where I would put it in our little Pod. However, I'm almost done with the cross-hatching. I'm on the last corner. On to finishing the swags and other decorations around the whole border.
I love seeing things grow. I started some sprouts, and in a few days they were ready to eat. I've thrown a few into salads and made whole sandwiches mostly from the sprouts. Also pictured is my jar of sourdough starter, which I had just fed as I was making bread.
I've been trying to use up food from the fridge in hopes of not having to come back to spoiled food after camping. We had a lot more mushrooms than I thought we could use up in salads, so I added about five of them, sliced, to this Tofu-zucchini Custard Casserole. The zucchini and most of the sliced mushrooms are on the bottom, but I saved some sliced mushrooms to decorate the top. This recipe also helped me use up the leftover cottage cheese we had in the fridge.
Here's the recipe, although it doesn't include the mushrooms I added.
I made more granola and another batch of those Carob Fudge Brownies we took with us on our last camping trip. This recipe is better than the first one I tried.
I read through the new book again and found a few things that needed editing. My main goal, though, was to look to see where I needed to provide credits for things I was using.
Soren was going to miss his 6th grade graduation because the family was going to Ireland, so they gave him his certificate early. The man by the door clapping for him is Mr. Klapton, Soren's SPED teacher. Soren has a lot of challenges to deal with, but he has a supportive family, and I'm sure Mr. Klapton earned his pay. Go, Soren!
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