Month: January 2019

A beginner seamstress again

I’ve got a sewing fever! In fact, I like it so much that Lou is in the process of buying me a brand new one to replace the 50 year old machine I got as a hand-me-down from my mother-in-law. Our youngest daughter will take possession of her grandmother’s machine after my new one arrives.…

Keeping track of time

Tomorrow I start filling the journal on the right. The green one on the left was started almost three years ago. I went back and forth between writing in it every day and just using it to log notes about our trips. The day before Christmas this year I started writing in it every day…

Smoked Salt goes with everything

My first experience with salt that was anything other than sea, course, or granular, was three years ago, when I received smoked salt as a gift. I was given two pouches of them, and it took me all this time to use them up because the only things I put them on were hard boiled…