I got a gift yesterday from my daughter

                                           

                                                     What could it be?

 

A HAM BONE!

with lots and lots of meat still on it! 

 

To the soup pot, Batman!

So I cleaned off most of the meat, sauteed some onions, diced up some celery, carrots,

 

and a green pepper from my garden.

 

Everybody in the pool!

I'll simmer this until the rest of the meat falls off the bone, then I'll add potato and some split green peas......

Pea soup...yummy on a cool day or any day for that matter.  Now I need some bread...fresh made would be nice, but I tried last week to find dough I can bake myself.

Maybe I'll just get some fresh baked from a bakery.

Daughter dear wants a container of the finished soup.......that's okay...there is lots.

Everytime she buys a ham and she likes to buy these hams, she brings me the bone to make soup and share it with her.      

The soup is delicious!                                                                           

Block #71

Finally ....  I have been trying and trying all summer to get  block # 71 done in the FWSQ.  I don't know what was blocking me or why.  It wasn't a hard or difficult block, actually it was really easy, but I dithered about the colour...couldn't make up my mind...I leaned toward purples...tried blues..I would put it down a do something else.  Like making all those doll clothes for Courtney.  Now that was fussy!  I  hemmed jeans for Courtney and shortened the sleeves on her new blue pleather jacket by 5 inches..I did some sewing on the spiderweb...anything but work on that block.  I guess I just wasn't ready!
But now it's done and I can move on to the next block. LOL!

I really don't understand how one little block could and did block me..paralyse me... on to more!

I made 4 of these years ago for my sewing buddies....I gave one to my mother, when she passed away,  I kept it for me...hangs in the kitchen!         Of Course!

Gremlins again yesterday .....When I checked the blog it wasn't up and saved as a draft..   Boy I am going to have to watch it closely..........anyway

At guild my friend Jackie showed off her skills.....she has been busy this summer.
She called me a month or so ago and asked "Do you have the pattern for the 'Tulip Wreath'?".  I said "YES!".  I had actually kept the magazine that it came in...I didn't scan and save on the computer...glad I kept it because it would have lost in the crash....I scanned and emailed the whole pattern for her and she had this to show for it.

A lovely runner and some coasters.
She also showed and miniture wallhanging she had been working on.

Applique is her love...hand applique and hand quilted....beautiful!

I had guild the other night...I got everything ready and forgot the mags I had for door prizes on my work table...oh well...we had a lot going on tonight anyway.  I will draw for them next month.
We had a great speaker tonight...she has an in-home shop for notions.  She talked about all the notions she had and we could buy...which we all did!
I bought some stuff..a new seam ripper...this summer, for some reason I used my good seam ripper to pull the dried glue from the tip of the glue bottle.  So the next time I tried to use it ...it was all messed up.  Why would I do that!?  I have lots of crappy ones...so  I bought a new one.
I bought some needles and some pressing solution called best press and a couple of other things.
My lemon squares were well received, although I did bring some home.  I'm sure the girls will like them.

We had a lot of really good treats for break, and Jen, our new social executive (she makes tea and coffee, signs up members to make goodies) wants me to let you know what a good job she is doing ....lol  You're doing GREAT Jen!...lol

These are all charity quilts that were made by the ladies who participate in outreach.

I had to bake for guild the other day.  As I said before, I don't bake very often.  I usually buy something, get a rash from the additives, then swear I won't eat that crap again......except for Walmart's white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.  lol

So I really didn't know what I wanted to make for guild....or buy....  I have been cruising pinterest and found a recipe for lemon squares...Easy lemon squares...hmmmm...so I thought I would give the recipe a try. 

You use a angel food cake mix and a can of lemon pie filling.  Mix the two together and bake.  That's it!

I didn't have a can of lemon pie filling, but I have a a Sheriff pie filling mix and an angel food cake mix.  I searched and searched on-line, and didn't find any recipes or anyone else who used a package of pie filling.

I decided to give it a try....

First I cooked the pie filling, it took 2 egg yolks plus 2 1/3 cups of water.  I decided that I would whip the egg white and use them too.  When I cooked the filling I thought I would reduce the water to 2 cups and added a big squirt of Italian lemon juice. ( I like lemon).   I let it cool, then added it to the whipped whites, then added the cake mix.  Mixed it throughly and it started to puff up right away.  Poured it into a foil lined 9" x 13" pan,baked it according to the package directions.  It looked nice, smelled great!  I sprinkled powdered sugar over it.  And we had a taste.  

 YUMMY!  It's too moist for the powered sugar.  It just melted and you never knew it was there..Next time, I'll leave it off.

You might have missed some blog...gremlins caused this blog to be posted out of order and if you didn't scroll down...you missed Thursdays.
I really don't know...these gremlins are really screwing me up....I am getting so I don't want to write a blog in advance for fear that it will be posted out of order, which happened this week.  Everything was post-dated...or scheduled but came up out of order...yet the blog between came up at the right time...very strange...
I quite often will write a blog with a good idea of what I want to say, but will go back, spell check, add photos or other info...change things around..even change the date the blog comes up to add in another blog.   So when I talk about yesterday, it could have been last week.


TGIF....looks like we are in for some cooler weather.

Whenever it gets cooler I feel like cooking.  I want to make soup, I want to make homemade brown beans...start making bread again...I try to hold myself back on that...I love it too much and would eat it all.

The other day when I made leek and potato soup, I went out to get some bread dough.  I never got any...I picked up a two- pac of bread that you bake for about 8 minutes.  Even though I would have preferred to have a loaf that I completely bake, this was fine ....cause we ate the whole thing ...hot...with butter and the soup..

I also want to start cooking pork roasts with sauerkraut...crispy potatoes and squash, carrots.  Hmmm...all comfort foods.

I feel like baking...but I hold myself back...don't need the calories...

I used to make peanutbutter cookies a couple of times a week when I was a kid..I loooove peanutbutter cookies....we 5 kids would eat them all in a day..they were my favourite, but once I got married the mister isn't big on baked goods...except for blueberry pie and sugar pie.  My son is deathly allergic to peanut ...so..no more cookies or even peanuts in the house.  He's a grown man now.... so I have a jar of peanutbutter in the cupboard.  Courtney loves her PB&J, but we have to be very careful not to contaminate the house or Kevin cannot come home for a visit.

So back to nesting, cocooning..whatever they call it nowadays...lol

I made soup for dinner the other night from the leeks I bought.

Yummy..The mister really enjoyed it.  Daughter wants some too, so I set some aside for her

Guild tonight...

do I have everything ready?  I think so...

 Do I have everything I need?  I think so.. 

I have my box all set to go....I think..lol..ooops  ...almost forgot my library books!

I gotta bake today for tonight!  The exec's always supply treats for September.

I don't know what I want to make, though.  I have really lost my touch with baking..I just don't do it enough anymore.  I don't need the extra calories.

I need to take my camera!  I need the card for the camera out of the computer..

I have a few door prizes for tonight...some magazines and other stuff...can't forget that.

And I think I will need some money.  We are having a speaker tonight and she is going to demo notions and have some for sale..I am a gadget girl for sure!