Mini cheese pies

I just used the cheese pie recipe but without the topping. I put raspberries on afterwards. They puffed! But quickly deflated.

Daffodil Quilt

I'm working on the binding of this quilt, first at the Slipped Stitches meeting and then while I got my hair dyed. 

First I tacked down the edges.

Then turned it under so the top looks like this.

Then sewed down the back. It still needs another line sewed down to hold the edge though.

Scarf/Shawl

This is a present (which I had hoped to complete and give last November, but whatever). It's a little more pink than it looks here, but Sara liked it well enough I think. And I practiced increasing and decreasing, so I learned something new!

Watching the birds

The tub one on the right is the really squirrel-proof one.
When they jump on it, it slides down. The one with the
baffle they love. They just hop on from the windowsill
and camp out there.

After much effort, I have finally settled on a more or less acceptable mode of bird (and squirrel) feeding. The squirrels ate two suet feeders, and then they ate one of those long tube feeders (literally. they ate the feeders, not the seed. Well, they ate that too but they also ate the feeders). So I got a "squirrel-proof" feeder, which is now the squirrel-feeder. Then I tried AGAIN and this time finally got a really squirrel-proof feeder. So far anyways!

New suet feeder. They're already nibbling on it and they
popped it open so I had to fix it and put twist ties on
but so far they haven't actually eaten the feeder.
Anyways, they're cheap.

I've seen chickadees, which I love, nuthatches, which I never know how to pronounce, a possible woodpecker, what might have been a junco, and a....purple finch? I am rather doubtful on that last one, since it isn't exactly the right time of year for them, but the weather has been so weird anything is possible.

Quilts in progress

I am determined to start finishing some projects. I've had this one since I was 16 and I am now....probably 33? so it's definitely time. I hauled it to work today to lay it out and pin the layers.

Apple Crisp

cortland apples, a little extra sugar, butter on top and 10 minutes broiler, cinnamon

Vacation Day 9; or, It is over

small stack left to review

Technically the weekend. Drizzly and gray outside, so I'm glad I finished the gardens.

large stack waiting to go back to the library

GIANT stack still to be read

• I got dressed (hey, every small achievement counts)
• Cybiling
• 4 short reviews
• Reviewed Big Red Kangaroo, Bee Dance, 2 titles from Jump's Way to Grow series
• Chocolate break
• Wrote a review for another Jump title and then the internet went down and of course it didn't save. Wrote it again *mutter*
• Another Jump title reviewed.
• 7 brief reviews
• reviewed Desmond's Blue Whale
• If anyone's interested, in my backup blog I have 16 fiction reviews, 3 misc. (mostly some aware wrap-ups for the end of the year), 13 nonfiction, 7 picture books, 2 ra ra read posts, 6 board books, and 7 easy readers. 16 of these posts are still drafts.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle dinner break
• Reviewed Pig and Pug
• Reviewed Stinky Cecil for No Flying No Tights
• Reviewed Hamster Holmes and Don't throw it to Mo
• Reviewed board book
• another break
• Reviewed My pet human
• Reviewed a series for No Flying No Tights.

And that's it. vacation is over.