What a coincidence! I finished Session 3 of my Longhorn appliqué wall hanging and WordPress chose “Create” as this week’s photo challenge. And here he is, Dippity-Do after Session 3, where I finished the Longhorn body. I see that I need to tweak one of his back legs, where it looks like a pirate’s peg leg.
The headless Longhorn
I still have to arrange the grass, sky and clouds. The pattern is by Susan Cranshaw.
Now he has a head and horns!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Create
Alert the media. I peeled my own kiwi.
Buying already-peeled fruit is one of my guilty pleasures. It costs more, but I consider it well worth it to be able to sit down and eat mushy fruit without getting my hands all, well, mushy.
But yesterday, yesterday I decided I would just try to peel the kiwi myself. This time I used a peeler. (I’d call it a potato peeler but I cook potatoes without peeling them now. It’s the kitchen utensil formerly known as a potato peeler.) Last time I used a knife and did not get the peeled results I wanted. Peeling kiwis with a knife took a lot of the fruit flesh with it.
Using a peeler, I did okay. The third kiwi gave me some trouble. The peeling part was fine, but then I tried to slice it. The center was hard and resisted my cutting efforts. I stood the kiwi on end and tried to cut it like a pineapple. And got mostly mush.
I ended up eating that one standing over the cutting board. Two out of three isn’t bad, so overall I consider it a success.
Maybe the trick is in knowing which kiwi to buy, knowing how to pick the ones with soft centers. I haven’t figured out how to do that, so that secret is safe with whoever knows it.
I decorated the back of this envelope with a Zentangle design I recently learned. The envelope, with a letter inside, is now winging its way across the Pacific ocean, in hopes of bringing a smile to the recipient.
Zentangles go everywhere!
This is Dusty and how he looks to me when I am in the backyard with him. Describing him a “Velcro” dog is an understatement. (A “Velcro” dog is a term used by agility handlers for dogs who won’t leave the handler’s side.) It’s impossible for me to walk in a straight line, as he constantly darts in front of me to get my attention. By the time I get to the far end of the yard, I have travelled twice the distance due to my efforts to go around him.
It’s always something …
Pet me, feed me, throw something!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Close
Living out in the boonies as we do, there are a lot things I take outside for disposal. Banana peels, orange peels, refrigerator science experiments, they all get recycled in the great outdoors.
Another item I take outside is the dustpan contents. I sweep fairly often due to the dog hair. (Not often enough, from the looks of the dog hair I can see right now; thus no photo with this blog entry.) There’s always a noticeable amount of dust and dog hair that I sweep up.
One of these days, I might even learn to check the wind direction before I take the dustpan outside. That would definitely be helpful information. Because as often as not, I open the door, step out on the front porch and the wind blows the dustpan contents right into my face and back into the house.
Pa-toui!
Fortunately, summer is about to arrive, with the wind out of the south. It should be safe for me to go out the front door and have that wind at my back. In the winter, I should go out the back door, to avoid the north wind.
Figuring it out is only part of it. I can’t seem to remember actually to account for the wind when I sweep. Maybe I’m trainable and maybe I’m not.
Pa-toui!
