...5.20...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...just continuing the Athletic sock remake...I'm just finishing the ribbed section at the arch...probably going to do the rounded toe when I get there...

...and I used a little bit of the white cotton yarn to 'fix' an old rather worn dishcloth...it's on its last legs but I'll get a little more use out of it...haha...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...5.18...Over the Weekend...

...I had baked a block of tofu in triangles for general tso's tofu...and I had a few too many...so I just used a couple to make a little breakfast sammie...

...and I did a super quick shopping trip and got just a few things...

...and I paid over $4 for gas...yikes!

...and back home I made my favorite Lower Fat Banana Bread from the Vegan Omicon...

...still loving my Alaska ulu...it's perfect for chopping nuts...

...but this time...I had the bright idea of spreading it out on a 1/4 sheet pan instead of using a loaf pan...

...it bakes in less than half the time so you don't have to have the oven on for so long...

...and we like it just fine as "bars"...instead of slices...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...5.16...Dinner and a Movie...

...we made a pot of sloppy joes with half lentils and half tvp...I've made it before with just lentils but he Man didn't love it...haha...

...served with air fryer french fries and a side of sautéed zucchini...

...and it came up in conversation the other day that I'd never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey...at least not the whole film in one sitting...kind of like the Excorcist...I've seen vignettes and I think I know the gist of it...

...so...guess what the Man got me for our Anniversary...

...what have you been watching lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...5.15...Friday Update...

...HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to us...

...we celebrated our anniversary with flowers and dinner out at a new-to-us Chinese restaurant...I had vegetable mei fun and it was delicious...but I didn't take a single photo for some reason...

...since I didn't take any photos of our anniversary dinner...I'll share an old postcard from the restaurant where we got engaged all those years ago...funny that there was a Chinese restaurant in a "Dutch Inn" hotel...haha...sadly it no longer exists but it was iconic in its day...

...another pretty lily is blooming along the sidewalk...

...the yarrow is blooming like crazy...the rain we had really generated a lot of blooms...

...the star jasmine is still blooming an perfuming the back porch...

...I was so worried about the transplanted gardenias...

...but they are green and flourishing...this one is about to bloom...

...and the taller ones are already blooming...

...and we have cherries on the Cherry tree...

...they're so pretty as they ripen...

...unfortunately the Man saw a mockingbird eating them...so we covered the tree with a net to protect the cherries...

...we had a few 'volunteer' greens in the garden...these are definitely mustard greens...but I'll just be adding them to a salad as they taste kind of like arugula...

...and we got a nice bowlful of also volunteer lettuce...it's growing where the lettuce was planted in the winter garden...and is now an eggplant square...it'll bolt soon in the heat but we'll defninitely enjoy it while we can...

~Have a lovely day!

...5.14...Delicious Vegan Food we ate...

...vegan food doesn't have to be complicated...simple air fried tofu...

...makes a delicious 'chick'n-bac'n-ranch' sammie...

...what delicious food have you been eating lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...5.13...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...I unraveled a pair of cotton socks that I never wear...they don't have a 'princess' sole and they kind of hurt my feet if I wear them for a long time...

...so I'm going to reknit them using the Walking in the Maize pattern...it's no longer available at the Ravelry link though...but if you go the WayBack Machine (aka the web archive) it is available as a snapshot there...

...it's a pretty basic sock with a band of ribbing around the arch like an athletic sock...I'm not doing the birdseye heel though...just a standard slip stitch one...and I am doing a princess sole...of course...

I've started with a provisional cast-on as I have a limited amount of yarn...so I'll come back and pick up those stitches and knit the cuff...but probably a lower one for an athletic sock...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...5.11...Over the Weekend...

...we started the weekend with vegan mushroom omelettes...sautéeing the stems and pieces of some mushrooms that we'd already eaten the tops of...

...a simple besan omelette...

...top with the mushrooms...

...and sprinkle with vegan parmesan...

...this one is almond based...

...fold over...

...and enjoy with a nice toasted bagel...

...and that was followed by the weekly shopping...not much of interest...Food Lion has started carrying the small shredded wheat biscuits with no frosting which is nice because the frosted ones usually contain gelatin for some reason...

...we went for a short hike...and saw a small herd of deer...

...and these little goslings...their parents were escorting them across the grass to a pond and hissing as loud as they could at us...haha...

...but baby geese are the cutest...

...and Sunday was Mother's Day of course...

...this sweet package arrived right as I was leaving for a bike ride (that's why my water bottle is on the table)...

...we got it all unpacked ...it's a wifi/solar bird feeder with a camera...

...so after my ride...we headed out to mount it to the fence outside the dinette window...

...got it all set up...

...and filled it with birdseed...

...and this is a screenshot from the app...it even identifies the bird for you...

...and here's a little video...you can also have the app send you an alert if you want...it's such an awesome gift...I love it...

~Happy Mother's Day weekend...Wishing you a lovely start to your week!