Scares

 Happy Halloween!

I'm still working on homemade pizza...I just think Papa Murphy's is hard to beat.

I started another quilt. I know...no shock here. It's a civil war design.

Dakota Man made this bowl that didn't pass inspection 

so I had him turn it into a jack-o-lantern 

and it's pretty dang cute.

Want a good scare? Read the book on the North Dakota Wolf murders.

~b is for Boo!

snow

 The first snowfall for the season 

called for apple cider doughnuts this morning.

~b

Friday Post Card

 

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." – Henry David Thoreau
• ~b

 

I dug out my tote of old felted sweaters to sew and knit these slipper sox.

They were really an experiment for me, a learn-as-I-go project.

They would be super warm in a cabin in the snow but not really a camper in Texas.

~b

DIE ERMORDETE FAMIELIE

 A book recommendation for you...

Daughter Knit and Pearl lent me this book.

If you like real life murder mysteries you will will enjoy this book.

Enjoy? When eight people are murdered in North Dakota enjoy may not be the right word.

Seven family members and a young boy that was working for them.

The eighth member of the family was left alone crying in her crib for two days

 until a neighbor finally looked in on them.

This abandoned farm was the scene of the murders.

When daughter knit and pearl said they would be pheasant hunting in the area 

I sent her exploring and to get me some photos. Morbid right?

The family headstone reads...DIE ERMORDETE FAMIELIE

(The Murdered Family in German)

Buy or Borrow the book!

~b

sawdust and paper

 Dakota Man came across a great way to use up 

all the sawdust leftover from his projects.

He made himself a sawdust log maker.

He used what he had buying only the plastic pipe.

You fill the pipe with your 24-hour soaked sawdust and paper

 then use the press on the left to squeeze the water out.

We always have lots of shredded paper to get rid of.

Reduce Reuse Recycle

The darker logs are sawdust only and the white ones have the paper in them.

He discovered the paper and sawdust combined make a more solid log.

He will burn his sawdust logs in his woodshop fireplace the next couple of months.

~b 

Friday Post Card

~b

mushrooms

I really enjoy painting mushrooms.

They are pretty easy, I don't think you can get them wrong.

I finally worked up some courage to try the red ones.

"The End" I wrote on the page indicates that this is the last page in my first watercolor journal and I get to start a new one with better paper for watercolors. I'm pretty excited about that.

~b 

Post Card Friday

 

I think today's blustery weather calls for some smoked fish chowder.

~b

Heat

 When it's cold and rainy outside I like to turn on the oven.

 Don't you?

Pumpkin Bundt Cake with maple icing...so good!

~b

unpaper towels

I hate paper towels...

I hate that they are so thin...

I hate the option to use only half of one which I feel obligated to do and

I hate buying them!

Daughter knit and pearl gave me this roll of unpaper towels years ago.

When we were on the road this year in our camper I was wishing I had them along.

So...I pulled out some of my flannel remnants to make them.

 I cut them approximately ten inches square and serged around the two flannel squares.

Now I need permission to use and abuse them.

~b

Farm Quilt

I finished this Farm Quilt top today. 

It is baby sized...lots of pieces for such a small quilt.

 I do love a challenge though.

~b

Post Card Friday

 Foggy shores...

~b

flour sacks

When we are traveling in our camper I get lots of stitch'n done.

Bad internet reception helps too.

Embroidering flour sack towels is one of my favorite things to work on.

They are slowly becoming a thing of the past.

When my family comes across them some day they will shake their heads at me.

Maybe I'll put them beside my stack of dishrags and quilts.

 ~b

Back to the kitchen

Today I am back in my kitchen with grapes I found in Wisconsin.

There they were in these cute little cardboard crates at a roadside market reminding me of our last house where I had a grape arbor. The arbor was in the backyard when we bought the house. I wasn't into making my own jellies at the time...kids, jobs and a huge house to keep clean came first. It was after we had lived there for many years that I finally found the courage to make those grapes into jelly and let me tell you it was the best grape jelly I had ever had.

I was never a fan of grape jelly until I had homemade which has more of a berry flavor than grape.

Homemade jelly always calls for homemade bread.

We biked by this fabulous Door County farm several times where I took my pictures. 

I copied this information off of their website.

Hidden Acres Farm

We're building a community around local, healthy food at Hidden Acres Farm and Beach Road Community Garden in Door County, Wisconsin.

Hidden Acres is the family project of Tom and Carolyn Rehberger. From years with home gardens, a passion for cooking and healthy foods, and seeing the resurgence of community gardens, they’ve created a community around their passions.

I bet they grow grapes.

~b

October

 It's October 1...

time to get your pumpkins out.

This is a Door County residence that I can never drive by without admiring.

I wonder what what it looks like at Christmas time?

~b