...1.6...Over the Weekend...

...for breakfast we got some leftover waffles out of the freezer...and topped them with crumbled tofu, vegan bacon bits, and vegan cheese...and popped them in the air fryer...

...it was a good quick breakfast...and I must say that vegan cheese does really well in the air fryer...it makes it nice and crispy and browned...

...I tried to get a photo of the birds on the feeder...there were four birds...one on each little perch...and two were on the holder waiting their turn...

...and the little amarylis that our neighbor gave us for Christmas has two bloom stalks...

...since it was the first of the month...we cleaned the Berkey...

...then I made some shopping snacks...peanut butter crackers and a bottle of tea...you know in case I get hungry while I'm out shopping...for like an hour and a half...haha...

...but it was a rather huge shop this week...

...not sure there's really anything of note...the big bottle of vinegar and big box of baking soda are for the beginning of spring cleaning...we'll pour a cup of each down each drain...

...and then we spent the afternoon taking down the Christmas lights...I rolled them up in plastic like I did the Halloween lights...

...and then at the end I opened up a Christmas-y Trader Joes bag...so we'll know these are the Christmas lights...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...1.4...Dinner and Movie...

...starting with some Blogger comments...

...to my sweet sissie Karen who blogs from her boat at McCraw Sails...Hey K...your new year's plate looks a lot like mine...so fun to see the sweet pictures of Richard...I didn't know you were going up to Mom's...but it looks like a fun visit...Mom and Granny both look awesome...Love, T...

...to karen from Pumpkin Sunrise...Hi Karen...so glad you had a nice visit with your family and that no one else got ill...your hats both look great...

...to Éphée from L'éphémère quotidienneté des repas et autres trucs de magie...Hi Éphée...your citrusy tofu looks delicious...you know how much I love tofu and the citrus makes it extra festive...

...to Penny from Snap That Penny...Hi Penny...Happy New Year...you have such pretty pastel skies...ours have been a blaze of colour in the evening and pretty and pink and blue at dawn...we'll probably take down our lights and decorations after Epiphany this Sunday...

...I finished the Great Alone and returned it to the library early so the next person waiting won't have to wait any longer...so I'll probably go back to Maupassant for a few days before I start the other two books Mom loaned me...

...for dinner we made Shane and Simple's Vegan Aritchoke Dip...we didn't put any spinach in though...and I wanted to use up the leftover artichokes from Tuesday with Julia...

...we kind of ate it like fondue...with crusty bread...and since it has a whole block of tofu...it's pretty filling...hearty and creamy...it was a fun supper...

...and the movie was Mirror (1975)...I'd never even heard of it before...and it was pretty odd...luckily the dream sequences changed to sepia...but it was still very difficult to follow as the time shifted a lot...and of course reading subtitles made it even more difficult...it is beautifully filmed though - especially for 1975...and it's just a story about some people...haha...

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

~Have a lovely weekend!

...1.3...Friday Update...

...in case you were worried that we'd take a break from renovation...HA!

...of course not...we've had all of our gutters replaced...the crew that came out to do that were super nice...we have a pretty large roof and our 4 inch gutters were just not able to hold all of the water coming off our roof...but they'd been like that for 20 years...so we have shiny new 5 inch gutters now...and one small run of 6 inch where the gables come together on the front...and an additional downspout...so we shouldn't have any more overflowing gutters...

...and back inside...we've cleared out the guest room...

...completely...

...and in the process completely messed up the cute little bedroom...oh well...all of that stuff had to go somewhere...

...and we've set up a door painting station in the middle of the room...this room has lots of doors...

~Have a lovely day!

...1.2...Delicious Vegan Food we ate...

...in the drizzly rain...I wanted to thin out the turnips in our winter garden...so that they can make actual turnip roots...

...so I just pulled up a lot of turnips for us to eat on New Year's Day...

...and left quite a few plants to mature...

...but I pretty quickly realized that I should have snipped the turnip greens off at the root...as they were SO SO DIRTY with all of the roots attached...

...I washed...

...and washed...

...and washed...a total of FIVE times...there were just so many 'floaty' bits...not like the sand that might cling to the leaves and then sink to the bottom...

...oh well...then they all went into the pot and out onto the porch as I didn't really want my house to smell like turnip greens...haha...

...and I'm still struggling a bit with the new camera...

...it seems to be a lot more sensitive to motion than my old one...

...and sometimes instead of getting better they get worse...I've taken at least two of every photo so far...haha...

...but I'm getting better...and eventually I always succeed...these are the delicious and very tender little baby turnip greens...I didn't get any grit in mine...haha...

...and the rest of our New Year's meal...blackeyed peas and cornbread...delciious of course...

~Have a lovely day!

...1.1...W.I.P. Wednesday...

Happy New Year...but I still have a bit of Christmas making backlog to show you...

...these are the beginnings of the little Christmas ornament party favors that I gave out at our family Christmas party a couple of weeks ago...

...no real pattern...just a crocheted triangle...starting with Ch 2 then you do 2 sc in the first ch, ch 1 and turn...then 1 sc, inc, ch 1 and turn...then 2 sc, inc, ch 1 and turn...so you just keep increasing one stitch on each row - 3 sc, inc, ch 1 and turn....you get the idea...I increased 14 times...

...then I really debated about the trunk colour...dark brown...light brown...fuzzy brown...twine...and finally decided on this khaki colour...

...you just pick up the center four stitches on the bottom of the tree...and do two rows of single crochet...

...then I got out some little wooden balls (from stash...I think they'd been there since Our Airman's Multi-Dryer Eco 3000 project of 2009...so funny...I still have and use that thing...

...anywhooo...then I got out the jute that I thought about using for the trunk...but for the hanger...and I couldn't fit it through the hole in the wooden bead...so I just used a needle and thread the same way you'd use an actual needle threader to pull the twine through the hole...

...then I used a crochet hook to pull the twine through the top of the tree...

...and then the needle and thread to pull the twine back through the wooden bead...

...then I also looped the thread around the little white tail...

...and pulled that up through the bead to hide it...and cut it off under a little bit of tension so that it would spring back down into the bead and stay hidden...

...and then just did an overhand loop knot at the top...

...times twelve...

...I wanted to make sure that I had one for each family...

...I think they turned out super cute...

...I put one on our little tree...

...I also shipped one to Alaska...

...and then filled my little gold leaf Peace tray with the ornaments for the party...

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

~Have a lovely day!