Well, I got through the charts for this week's clue for the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit Along, and the next clue doesn't come until Wednesday. We're in outer space, and the aliens have emerged from their flying saucers.
The next step was the Latvian braid. I've done this before, but it has been a while. I did watch the video demo before I started on it, though.
I've gone back to the Sunday Morning Wrap. It's coming along nicely, a little at a time.
I made two batches of granola this week. There's a story. The granola takes a hour in the oven at 300ºF, but you have to stir it every 20 minutes. I set the timer for 20, stirred it, set the timer for 20, stirred it, and then was interrupted after I put it in the oven again, and I forgot to set the timer. When I realized it had been more than 20 minutes, I went to get it out, and it was overdone. Not burned, but overdone. We decided it was edible, but not the best. Charlie suggested making another batch and then mixing them together, so I did. The second batch was just barely done. It tasted fine, and now we have a LOT of granola!
On Sunday, I made some cookies, but I used the convection/microwave oven, which is smaller. Since I was using my small baking sheet, which fits nicely but can't turn on the turntable, I had to rotate the pan 90º halfway though. Between the granola and the cookies, we're going through a lot of olive oil, honey and oats.
I need to get busy making the binding for the T-shirt quilt, because it should be done soon.
We got some snow during the past few days. And then we got more. The next day, rinse and repeat.
It gave us a good opportunity to get out in the woods and let the pups have a run.
They really love to run loose in the woods, so we did it again the next day.
We've taken this route every day through Sunday. When we get out of the woods and close to the trail, the pups get leashed up. The snow is starting to disappear in some spots, so we may not be able to walk in the woods too much longer, because it will be getting muddy.
Here's our route. It's only about half a mile, but sloshing through the snow is a workout.
Meanwhile, when we're not walking, Dusty is training Sandy in the security detail...um...details. He's showing Sandy how you watch for someone to come walking by on the sidewalk, and then you bark like crazy. Another intruder you need to watch for is cats. Those sneaky things walk right up on the lawn. So do the deer, and then you really have to start screaming, because sometime Mum likes to get her phone and take photos of them.
Soren's been getting a workout playing basketball. Alexa got this great photo.
Johan came in second at a wrestling tournament.
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What's in The Doll's Storybook: In this week's story Jolena wonders how she can figure out what's the right thing to do in What It Means To Be Good. She goes to Veronika for help.
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