My friend Joanne travels a lot. She mentioned she takes off a plastic cover from a cup in the hotel room. She slips the remote inside. That way you aren’t touching where a thousand fingers have made their selections on the remote.
I remembered to do it today
From my neighbor. She got them at the Farmer’s Market today. I’d given some knitting help. What a gorgeous autumn bouquet. I put the flowers in my vintage hammered aluminum pitcher.
Thank you Cathy
Yesterday’s showed my efforts to propagate my mother’s Christmas Cactus. Here’s is one reader’s response.
Thanks for sharing your mother’s Christmas Cactus, Joanne. Here’s what she sent.
A friend at exercise class gave me sourdough starter and a basic recipe. I learned why she advised don’t use tap water. Filtered or Spring water. The chlorine in the city water can kill the yeast (or at least slow it down.)
I’ve been feeding the starter refrigerating it when I’d leave town, take it back out and feed it again and was planning to bake sourdough bread.
Today was the day. I used a ln enameled cast iron bread baker that Jen S and I bought from Aldi last year.
I took a book out of the library through the Libby App online and renewed it tonight.
Joanne made an adorable hand stitched Tea Cozy in the shape of a cat. We zoomed on our computers while I opened the present she shipped from Florida. There were boxes of tea as well but I don’t have a pic. Her thinking is I can do porch knitting with
friends while we sip tea. I love the cat cozy. Thank you Joanne for the creative handmade cat to keep the teapot warm.
AVVA in Aspinwall modern Mediterranean Restaurant
My neighbor Kelly picked me up and we drove across the Allegheny River to meet our former neighbor Nancy who was waiting for us on the front patio of a restaurant I’d never been to before. We had a good visit catching up and enjoyed a delicious meal together. The Katmer dessert was new to us and we shared the lightly fried triangles of phyllo dough with a pistachio filling.
Katmer
Thin layer of phyllo dough filled with a mixture of pistachios and mascarpone
Throwback Thursday. This tiny China box was a gift from a friend in 1981.
Inside I have some old earrings and my HS class ring from 1970.
Don’t open it often but did today.
Saturday some Fiber friends and I helped out at a farm on Sheep Shearing Day. What a cool experience.
At the end of day, after a hearty meal I was given a dozen farm eggs to take home. They weren’t washed yet so could be left on the counter. What a great offering.
The taste of a farm egg is like no other. Delicious. So flavorful and rich.
