...10.11...From the Mountains...

...since it's Tuesday...I know you're expecting a Tuesday with Julia post...but I'm still in the mountains visiting...

...but I will show you one interesting thing that I didn't know about my sweet M.I.L...she works puzzles like I do...

...and she has this HOARD of puzzles...I mean...

...is that CRAZY or what...and this is not all...the Man's old bedroom closet has a shelf full as well...

...so of course she said I can borrow all that I want...put my initials on them so she'll know which ones I've worked and bring them back...

...that will be fun!

~Have a lovely day!

...10.10...Over the Weekend...

...we headed up to the mountains after Church...

...for a quick visit with both of our Moms...the drive through the just-starting-to-change-colour trees was just lovely...and the weather was too perfect for words...

...so this post is coming to you from my childhood home...

...right after we got there...we saw this buck in our old horse pasture with his "harem"...

...that's the buck right in the middle with his antlers...they are so pretty...also skiddish...I couldn't get close enough to get a really good photo...

...and the Man prepared a delicious Vegan Swiss Steak for dinner...and then we sat around the table for hours just talking the night away...it was great!

...so...let's rewind...just a bit...the early fall weather was so gorgeous...we took advantage of that Saturday and hung the clothes out on the line...

...I went shopping...twice...not really ..I did go to two stores though so it made it seem like an extra long shopping trip...haha...

...mostly just normal stuff...I got tea biscuits...and a nice bag of organic pears...the first I've seen this season...so YUM...

...I don't normally buy the prepackaged salad mixes...but these were each $3 off...and they were on sale for $3.50...so I had to buy them for 50¢...

...I got some Fritos...which I love...and when I tore into the package as I was putting the groceries away...as one does...haha...the whole bag tore down the side...so I just divided them up into three pint jars...they should keep pretty well that way...

...so then I went to Wal-Mart (we call it Stuff-Mart around here)...because I needed the gold fabric paint for a little project at Mom's...I'll tell you all about it on Wednesday...but I found several other things I 'needed'...haha...some fresh beets, radishes and pepper and onion...ground flax seed...I don't normally buy it pre-ground...but I think if I keep it in the freezer it will be ok...the kind of hominy the Man likes...a nice big local cabbage...for making some sauerkraut...and a bag of heirloom local apples...who knew that StuffMart had local stuff...??

...and the paint that I needed of course...

...the beautiful apples...are old varieties...the Man remembers the "Jonathan" variety from his great grandparents apple orchard...and the yellow ones are called Ginger Gold...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...10.8...Dinner and a Movie...

...we sat outside and watched a beautiful sunset...

...October sunsets here are just so pretty...and it's nice enough to sit outside and watch them...

...we have beautiful sunset in the wintertime too...it's just not so pleasant watching them outside...haha...

...and I would say it made us get a late start on the evening but the nights are drawing in so it wasn't even that late...

...and dinner was super simple...I had baked some cubed tofu...

...and this is the last of the boxed dinner thingy-s that we bought for/during the pandemic...about to go out of date so we needed to use it up...

...and had the rice and tofu with some chopped collards from the freezer...

...and the movie was the Man's choice this week...and he chose Running with the Devil...it was a sort of documentary I guess...and sort of just a live action video of these reporters who followed McAfee around...it was really kind of a stressful movie as it wasn't scripted and McAfee could (and would) just do anything...it was bizarre...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...10.7...Friday Update...

...I made the sweet little Ariel doll an "undersea" dress...

...just using up some 'water-y' print fabric from the stash...and a little bit of netting...

...it took about 5 minutes to sew a little tube top...and gather a skirt (with a little netting overskirt) onto it...

...then I added a couple of ties to the tube top so it wouldn't fall down...

...I think it turned out super cute...and you know most of the fun of playing with little dolls like this is the dressing and redressing to play different roles...

~Have a lovely day!

...10.6...What I Ate in a Day...as a Vegan...

...for breakfast...I crumbled up some firm tofu...and sprinkled it with kala namak...pepper and nooch....

...and popped it into the oven to bake...just stirring it every few minutes...

...until it's just the right amount of 'chewy'...

...then...I mixed some frozen blueberries into the last of the Kite Hill vegan yogurt...

...and toasted a lone bun that was in the freezer...

...lunch was a quick pot of lentils made in the InstaPot...

...served with some rice...and 'creamed' cauliflower...really just steamed cauliflower with some almond milk poured over it...haha...

...I boiled some tempeh...not sure you still need to do this...but years ago...they always said to boil the tempeh first...I think maybe you could buy unpasteurized tempeh or something...

...for dinner...I made some delicious BBQ tempeh...

...and we're trying out these new to us prepared veggie mixes...this one is riced cauliflower and mushroom...

...and also new to us...this Miyoko cultured almond milk butter...it's pretty yummy...

...especially on a simple boiled potato...

...what did you eat yesterday?...

~Have a lovely day!

...10.5...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...I kinda feel like I ought to have accomplished more this week on little Dollie #2...but I've finished the first arm...and I'm pretty sure I'm going to run out of yarn before I can finish the second one...but it will be really close...

...I must have been spending too much time on the little footsies...

...the first little two toned footlet is almost finished...the nude coloured border is there just in case they peek out from my shoes...the rest should be invisible...

...just using up the last of the bamboo yarn in the stash to make these...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...10.3...Over the Weekend...

...for our weekend breakfast...I wanted to the Jaroudi Family's Edible Cookie Dough...just made into muffins...

...they turned out pretty good...not sure I'll make them again...I think we just prefer the texture of regular muffins...

...they're certainly good enough to eat...haha...

...and then we spent the majority of the weekend in the rainy windy path of Hurricane Ian...

...the only damage here was some small branches and leaves...

...just a little bit messy...

...from my still wet bike ride on Sunday...

...and this little guy must have been displaced by the storm...it's unusal to see them out in the open during the day like this...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...10.1...Dinner and a Movie...

...so...nothing special on the dinner plate...my favorite Griddler'ed veg...

...grilled tofu with BBQ sauce...and a big salad...so easy and so YUM!

...my turn to choose the movie...and since we already watched one really good movie wtih my Sissie this week...The Outfit...I didn't feel too much pressure to choose a good one...haha...but I have always sort of loved Dolly Parton...I know that may be surprising and I don't think it's something people generally go around saying because her "created" persona is pretty outrageous...but I grew up listening to country music...as we all pretty much listen to what our parents listen to until we're of an age to choose for ourselves...and so I'm really familiar with her unique "voice'...

...so I had watched (by myself) a Netflix documentary about Dolly...Dolly Parton: Here I Am...and in hindsight...HA!...that would have been the better choice for movie night...as I think the Man might have enjoyed it more...but I chose Dumplin'...as it showed up in my queue after I watched the Dolly doc...it was a cute rom-com...again...it was sweet...and a kind of love yourself kind of movie...

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

~Have a lovely day!