Taking a Ribbing

We were supposed to be on the coast today, but plans changed. Anticipated rain for most of the week in the area where we plan to camp made next week seem like a better option. Too bad to miss most of Holy Week, but I will find a way to observe it. In the meantime, I stopped making preparations (which were well underway) and got some knitting done on the Field Cardigan. I've just started the ribbing for the bottom of the body. Here's my work just before I started the ribbing.

Most of the week was cool and breezy, but otherwise the weather wasn't bad, so we walked every day except for Saturday, when we did something else. (See below.) A few of our walks made it into the woods for some off-leash time for the pups. Throwing a stick for them gives them some time to compete with each other and getting some exercise in a space much bigger than our backyard. 

Dusty got that one because Sandy was distracted. There were other opportunities, though. You have to pay attention to where the stick is thrown.

Sandy had his share of successes. 

The reason we didn't hike or walk on the trail with the pups on Saturday was the big protest, Hands Off! We had a good turnout in Bend, and the protest lasted for six hours. We were there from noon to about 3:00 PM.

Instead of carrying signs ourselves, we had the dogs do it. While people driving by probably didn't notice, the other protestors did, and the pups had their photos taken over and over again. Authorities are saying there were more than 1,000 by the end of the day.

We would have stayed longer, but our new (as of January) U.S. Representative, Janelle Bynum, was visiting Deschutes County. She had a town hall in Sisters, which we would have attended if it hadn't been a long drive and at the same time as the protest, but she had another event at 3:30 that same day, "Brews with Bynum," where we could talk with her and ask questions, and it was right in Bend, at Worthy Brewing. She spoke to us in small groups, telling us what she's working on and listening to our concerns. We were heartened by what we heard from her and her willingness to listen and ask relevant questions to be sure she understood. I didn't get a good photo of her, but she's in this photo, just the top of her head visible where she was sitting next to the man in the plaid shirt.

I finally cooked that spaghetti squash. It would have lasted a few more weeks, but I was looking for something to serve without pasta sauce and cheese (which I have to limit), so I baked it, scooped out the "spaghetti" and served it with soy curls.

Here's the recipe.

You may remember from my St. Patrick's Day post that I came into a lot of silken tofu. Well, I'm not in a hurry to use it up, but I do have it, and I've been rewriting recipes to allow for the smaller package. Of course, working with the recipe makes me want to try it out. I also had a lot of mushrooms that needed to be used up, so I made the Silken Tofu Mushroom Pasta. (I used fusilli this time, not the noodles in the recipe photo.)

I used a little more garlic than the three cloves called for in the recipe, because I had a head of garlic I had opened up some time ago, and it needed to be used up. I loved it with the extra garlic. 

Mori-Nu Silken Tofu is made in the US from US sources, so the price shouldn't go up, but China and Japan are big customers for it, and the tariffs may hurt the company. I hope not.

I spent a lot of time getting ready for our trip, organizing, dusting the inside of the r-pod and stowing my clothes and some other things away inside and making sure the supplies I thought were already there were indeed there. Now I have a restricted wardrobe left in the house, but I'm not planning to bring my clothes back. I'll just make do.

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If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for More Classic Tales Retold or Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart". Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of any of our books, including Emil, Mariah, Classic Tales Retold, Our Favorite Verses or More Classic Tales Retold, please leave an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.

Where's my blog: If you want to follow my blog, go here and sign up to follow.

What's on my needles: Still working on the Field Cardigan.

What's on my iPhone: Still listening to Jan Karon's These High, Green Hills, which is the third book in her The Mitford Years series.

What's on my sewing machine: Still waiting to do some repairs.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In Talking About Boys, Charlotte and Olivia have a conversation while putting together a puzzle..

What's my tip of the week: We like those small sweet peppers in our salads, but you have to either slice them in rings or strips. Getting all the seeds out is a challenge. I've been using a fingernail to pick out the clump at the stem end, but the seeds are always a bit damp and sticky, and they stick to my fingers, making it difficult to get rid of them. I'e been using a pastry brush to sweep them into the garbage, and it works well. For some reason, they don't stick to it the way they do to my fingers.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 

The stories in More Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Welcoming a Stranger, The Rescue, Unmasked, Fuzzy Town––A Play and Sky Blue.

Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook. Poems included are Valentine's Day, Keeping Pets, Back to School, Victor the Vulture, The Week Before Christmas, Insomnia and Veronika's Vocabulary Verses.

The stories in Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.

The stories in Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

The stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less, because the publisher gets a cut. 

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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