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crockpotcauldron) wrote2022-09-05 12:58 pm
crockpotcauldron) wrote2022-09-05 12:58 pm
Friday Poke The Buttons Night
Picked up my hexagon quilt again.
I have been chatting with a couple friends as one of them plays a video game in the background. Sometimes we game together, if the lag isn't so bad (three time zones), and we play occasional rpgs. The modern Friday night poker, I guess. I'm going to pull out my Escape Room in a Box kit once we are done with the latest game, which I have successfully played online before via taking photos of the pieces. Anyway, it's nice to have some English paper piecing to keep my hands busy as we talk, and I'm very close to the end of the quilt. It's the blue and orange one, if anyone remembers it. Hand sewing can be done sitting on a couch or bed, and doesn't require my sewing chair. I finished most of the quilt while watching Columbo.
I'm back in the trenches, looking for recipes. My father has expressed his preference for a variety of dishes, instead of the same pot of beans all week. Annoying, but I see his point. I'm scrounging through the cookbooks we own, and the internet at large, for the good stuff. You get into some strange places that way, like the Christian Mom With Five Kids part of the internet. Boy, do those people love cheese and packets of premixed herbs. It's interesting to have windows into such different lives, you know? I take time off from serious recipe hunting to read my comic relief cookbooks, which I have collected plenty of. Some of the jello stuff from the 60s is charmingly alien. Wouldn't look out of place in Star Trek. There's one where you peel a cantaloupe, hollow it out, fill it with fruit and jello, and then frost the outside with cream cheese. My friends have been rating the jello dishes on a scale of how likely they were to cause a divorce, and that one got a Henry VIII.
I have been chatting with a couple friends as one of them plays a video game in the background. Sometimes we game together, if the lag isn't so bad (three time zones), and we play occasional rpgs. The modern Friday night poker, I guess. I'm going to pull out my Escape Room in a Box kit once we are done with the latest game, which I have successfully played online before via taking photos of the pieces. Anyway, it's nice to have some English paper piecing to keep my hands busy as we talk, and I'm very close to the end of the quilt. It's the blue and orange one, if anyone remembers it. Hand sewing can be done sitting on a couch or bed, and doesn't require my sewing chair. I finished most of the quilt while watching Columbo.
I'm back in the trenches, looking for recipes. My father has expressed his preference for a variety of dishes, instead of the same pot of beans all week. Annoying, but I see his point. I'm scrounging through the cookbooks we own, and the internet at large, for the good stuff. You get into some strange places that way, like the Christian Mom With Five Kids part of the internet. Boy, do those people love cheese and packets of premixed herbs. It's interesting to have windows into such different lives, you know? I take time off from serious recipe hunting to read my comic relief cookbooks, which I have collected plenty of. Some of the jello stuff from the 60s is charmingly alien. Wouldn't look out of place in Star Trek. There's one where you peel a cantaloupe, hollow it out, fill it with fruit and jello, and then frost the outside with cream cheese. My friends have been rating the jello dishes on a scale of how likely they were to cause a divorce, and that one got a Henry VIII.