Serendipity Quilting

OK… I dug around some more and found this King Tut thread on the left and this Yli on the right.  They both have light pink and tan, the Yli also has the lime green that is in the quilt too so I’m leaning towards it.   I’ll drink more coffee while stand and stare continues.  Truth be told, I have an exceptionally good Kona roast this week so I’ll use any excuse to drink more coffee.  Like sneak out and look under the row cover.

Swiss chard still growing!

Enough yummy lettuce for salads every day! Yippeeee!!!

Now back to stand, stare and sip….

Jan

Ever see Men In Black?  Love those worm guys always drinking coffee…..  love it… didn’t even get into the post before I digressed…. and yes… I choose to not delete either…..

So the Behmor roaster has arrived.  It’s pretty…. about the size of a toaster oven…

Yes, that is my first roast in action… my husband wanted to video tape it…. but at 9 pm the lighting just isn’t that great….  the smoke alarms did come on…. but we did not spontaneous combust so already better than my first roast in the grill drum.  But I do still think someone ratted me out on my kitchen fire record…… why?  Well on the roaster not removable is this….

And this sticker was applied multiple times… including over all the controls so there is no way you could miss it….

I promise to not sue because I caught the house on fire… swear….. and I know McDonalds coffee is hot even though I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole…..

The first roast was OK…. need a learning curve…. like… turn on the exhaust fan silly…… hey.. it was late. The scary part was the kid SLEPT through 5 minutes of smoke alarm. I don’t know if I wanted to know that was possible or not.  But over all…. nice to be able to push a button and do the dishes while of course never leaving the room and carefully observing the roaster…. in the A/C  late at night…..

Jan

One of the many lettuces I’m growing this year is called Tom Thumb.  I think the description to the best of my recollection went something along the lines of a nice iceberg lettuce with each head being the perfect size for a dinner salad.  Oky doky! I’m in!  So I’ve been watching this stuff waiting for that iceberg lettuce center like you see in the grocery store.  Stop laughing.  That’s what I thought I wanted.  Aren’t they cute?!

My husband kept asking if they were ready…. I should have listened….. aren’t they funny when they start to go to seed?!

It’s the tower of lettuce!!! The smaller ones are quite tasty… and the tower one will give me more seed…  that’s my story and I’m sticking to it…..

Meanwhile the mustard is still flowering and not going to seed… it’s huge and taking over….

If it hasn’t gone to seed by the 4th, I’ll be taking it on out to put in more beans.  Crazy.

Speaking of beans… I have tigers eye beans!

Black eyed peas and Trail of Tears are not far behind!

Next post…. the behmor arrived!  I did a dry run to clean it…. now… to get brave and roast…  it has fire hazard stuff all over it…. who ratted me out?!

Jan