...9.20...Dinner and a Movie...

...Pizza Night...

...YAY!

...and the movie was The Planters...a really quirky and sweet independent film...I really enjoyed it...of course it's just a story about some people...also about acceptance and forgiveness...I recommend it...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...9.19...Friday Update...

...the Man continues to work his way around the bedroom...cutting in...we've moved the bed out into the center of the room...hoping we can get to the entire ceiling without dismantling it...

...and then I finally tackled a tiny little job that's been hanging out for way too long...when we redid the wood floors in the big room we installed a little bendy piece of fake wood around the newel post base...and it kind of stood out as being quite different from the oak quarter-round...

...so I ordered a bunch of oak coloured Sharpies...wedged some paper underneath and behind...

...and started colouring it to match the trim...adding little flecks and swirls with the darker pens...to match the woodgrain...

...and then I gave it a coat of the same finish we'd used on the floors...

...I'm happy to have that little project completed...

...in the garden...we're still picking the bush beans...they're gorgeous and delicious...they're also winding down in their production...which is OK because we need to pull them up soon to plant the winter garden...

...and we're still picking 50-100 cowpeas a day...I've filled up one bin and started another one...I'm pretty happy with the yield as I planted 100 seeds...and then I didn't do anything at all except string them up and water them...it'll be fun to see how many peas we actually get out of them...it may be just an experiment that we don't repeat...haha...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your weekend!

...9.18...Delicious Vegan Food we ate...

...the Man made vegan chow mein...'Chow mein' is the Americanization of the Chinese term for fried noodles...

...my only contribution was to cut some tofu into triangles and air fry it...

...lots of chopping prepwork...

...using the cast iron wok that Mom gave us...

...we had so much veg that he had to fry it in batches...

...and it was so delicious...so much better than the chow mein I've had at Chinese restaurants...I really like it better without the starchy sauce they use...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...9.17...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...some prep work before I start the Minecraft vest for Our Airman's Wife...

...I wasn't really happy with the colours of the cotton yarn that I'd gotten at Stuff Mart...both colours just seemed too bright...so I returned it all and went looking for some sweaters to recycle at our local thrift store...

...and I found this deep forest green cotton sweater on my first try...it's a size small...but there should be more than enough yarn there to make a vest...

...so I took it all apart...

...and started unraveling it...

...the yarn directly from the sweater is very thin...not the look I'm going for with the vest...

...so I plied it together...to make more of a worsted/aran weight yarn...

...I got two big skeins...and one baby one...

...and then I went looking for some gold cotton yarn... and I found that too...it probably helps that it's nowhere near sweater season here..and I also got her a gold tee-shirt to wear under the vest...I don't think the logo will matter as it will be covered up by the vest...

...and I really only want the gold part for this vest...the lighter coloured sweater is for if I need it for plying...but I may not...

...same process...

...I only got the one ball of gold...hoping it will be enough altogether for roughly half a vest...but I may be playing a little bit of yarn chicken...

...and I got several dishcloth cotton colours that I really like as well...

...so then I swatched with my recycled yarn...

...checking for gauge...

...this cotton is oh so soft...

...and it has a lovely drape to it as well...

...I snagged a few photos of the sweater from screenshots...

...of the front...

...and the back...

...and I think I've found the perfect pattern...the neckline and the arms look about the same...there's 2x2 rib on at the bottom and 1x1 around the neck and arms scyes...so that should be the only change...it's Drops Design 'New Girl'...

...I sketched in the squares and modified the pattern to use 2 needles instead of knitting on circs...vertical colour chanes like this are almost impossible in the round...

...and here we go...

...I actually got quite a bit done on the trip up to Mom's...

...I am almost always the passenger...and that makes for a lot of knitting time...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...9.16...Tuesdays with Julia...the FINAL COUNTDOWN #6...

...we made the very sweet and fluffy VEGAN ÎLE FLOTTANTE...

...it was good...like eating custard with whipped cream on top...the Man asked what it was...and I said it was basically vegan fluff over custard...and he tried it and said yep...that really was just fluff...

...and all of the particulars are over at The Vegan Version...

~Have a lovely day!

...9.15...Over the Weekend...

...of course you already know we were up at Mom's...

...and when we got home in time to do a little garden work...

...I picked the new bush beans...we'll get at least a couple of pots out of them...

...we still had a couple of bags of the rattlesnakes in the fridge...

...and I added them together...

...got them all broken...

...and into a pot...

...and then I took down all of the strings holding up the rattlesnake beans...

...and pulled them all up...it seems so funny to see the fence there again...haha...

...the giant marigolds are starting to dry up...so I'll save a gazillion seeds from them to plant again next year...and the second planting of squash will have those squares all to themselves now...

...and we're still picking the cowpeas...

...and the little pink roses beside the back steps are putting on a final show before autumn...

...and then I picked the last two little cherry tomatoes off the incredibly tall vines on the porch...

...see what I mean...they grew right up to the ceiling...and we took down the strings and shook those out of their pots as well...

...and on our walk one of the military helicopters flew over...we always look up when we hear one...

...and then we were treated to a gorgeous sunset...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!