A recent sunrise after a rain....
Much prettier in person, of course!
No new recipes this week but the Sasquatch did bring over a couple of things for us to try.
First, this bottle of concentrated drink mix from the clearance shelf at Kroger. It's a drink made from bark and it came from Trinidad and Tobago.
When you lift the glass to your mouth you get a wiff of a wonderful spicy combination of licorice and root beer...but when you take a sip...BLECH ! It is bitter with a bitter after taste.
We just couldn't drink it. A definite 'thumbs down' on this one.
The other thing he brought was 'thumbs up'.
A Lemon Cucumber from his garden, named that because of their size and color. They don't taste lemony but they have a good cucumber flavor - better than an ordinary cucumber, we think.
Their skin has a scattering of stiff little whiskery spines...
He brought a regular cucumber too and sliced both up a plate to go with Sunday dinner. He said his garden is fizzling out for the season.
Our little gardens are fading fast too...except for Lonnie's tomatoes, which are producing like crazy.
He has to pick them when they first start turning red because crows or other birds have started pecking holes in the ones ripening on the plants.
He has dehydrated a few of them. We may just skin and freeze some of the rest.
During the recent rainy spells I've been reorganizing a couple of closets. I ordered and put together this wire shelf.
So there was no real way to hang a closet rod or attach shelves in there. We have just used it to pile our suitcases in. A lot of wasted space in there until now.......
I took measurements to be sure the shelf would fit and it's about perfect.
That's my suitcase (dark blue) and travel bags on the top shelf - then 2 shelves of quilt books and magazines.
Next, more tote bags and bedspreads and comforters. To the side is a quilt wrapped around a pool noodle (no wrinkles) and a wheeled folding table that I use to help support a larger quilt when I'm quilting it on my machine.
I might still hang some hooks from the ceiling in there - to hang some of the tote bags and free up shelf space.
I did cull a few items...like these plastic zip bags that comforters and bedding comes in. There were at least 12 or 13 of them tucked back in that closet. Some so old that the plastic had developed an unpleasant sticky feel.
Must. Fight. Hoarding.!
Lonnie's suitcases went into the hall closet (below). Now, he won't have to hopscotch through the mess in my sewing room to get to them! They are on the top shelf, then toilet paper, extra towels, beach towels, light bulbs and bedding.
I read a tip, that storing extra sheet sets inside their pillowcases will help keep things tidy, so I did that and also put a couple of wool blankets in pillowcases too (with some cedar blocks).
I labeled the pillowcases so I won't have to rummage through them all when I need something.
In the bottom, next to the laundry bag, I finally found a place to store my upstairs vacuum cleaner (yes, it is a shop vac). In all the years since I decided to have a second vacuum for the upstairs - it's never been put away anywhere. It's just been hanging out in one bedroom or another...any empty corner.
Now let's see if I will be good about returning it here each time after I use it!
I would have bought wire shelving for this closet too, but the attic door is in the ceiling in there. Occasionally, someone will have to go up there and the closet has to be emptied.
Well, You are probably beyond excitement after that tour of my closets but I'll also show my progress on the 9 patch quilt. Blocks not sewn together yet, just doing a layout.
I'll keep working on it and thinking about that.
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