{ A second fruit cake and some french bread }

It is Tuesday morning, the 4th of November.  The morning is cold and dreary and I want nothing more than to sit in my warm bed, and do absolutely nothing.  It's a nice dream, but not reality, right?

 

I thought I would take you with me on a typical day around here, with some non typical things thrown in too, like the baking of a second fruit cake and some french bread for the week.  Though I do tend to have some sort of baking and cooking going on each day, these two are not a common occurrence. 

My mornings seem to run the same, after getting mine and Curt's coffee, packing his lunch and sending him off to work, I bring my coffee back to the room, get back in my bed, and then work at least one row on my growing crochet blanket.  It is getting huge, and it's becoming heavy.  

 

I just love when it gets to this stage, you start seeing the overall pattern, the rows take longer to make, the stitch counting becomes more intense (I say this as I just had to frog two entire rows because of two misplaced stitches hahaha).

 

I will show you a picture tomorrow of what it looks like at this point. 

 

I've also started my new book.  A Falcon for a Queen from Catherine Gaskin.  It is my first book by this author and I am but a few pages in and already loving it.  It is set in Scotland which is a huge plus for me, just the description of the land as they ride in the coach, takes my breath away.

 

I think I am going to really enjoy this one, and am already looking for more from Catherine Gaskin to add to my cart at Thriftbooks.  My cart just sits there, full of books I want, and I just click the save for later, and as budget permits, a few times a year, I buy one or two.  I love that they are inexpensive and I can find some of the titles I've been searching for.  I don't know about you, but covers like this one are my favorites, the older looking book covers always pull me in.

 

Have you read any Catherine Gaskin books? 

 

On my hook as well, is a new scarf.  I have quite a lot of mismatched yarn skeins laying around, in tubs and bags.  I am trying to work through the stash and decided to make another easy scarf.  I wanted something that I didn't need to count stitches, something easy, something that worked up quick and something I could grab and quickly work a couple rows while waiting for dinner to cook, or just sitting in the living room with the family.

 

I made one of these many years ago, when we lived in Idaho right after Curt retired in 2012.  If you've followed me for a while, you may remember this scarf.  I made it slightly different where I did double the cast on stitches to make it wider, so instead of the 19 stitches it calls for, I doubled it. 

 

Loved how it turned out.  However, a few years ago Curt's aunt asked me to borrow it so she could make one for herself, and then I never got it back and completely forgot about it too.  I figured it would be easier to just make another instead of trying to track that one down.

 

The pattern is the Pavement Crochet Infinity Scarf, though I am not making an infinity one, meaning I won't be sewing the edges together to make a tube, so to speak.  I will just leave mine open ended. 

 

Do you remember this one?

 

 

 

 

 

Loved that pink yarn and wish I still had some, but I don't.  The one I am using now is this beautiful white stonewashed super soft yarn too, but again, I only have one skein, so will make the scarf as long as the yarn lasts.

 

I also made my second fruit cake.  I do love a good fruit cake and these are so good, I gave you the recipe the other day, so go back and check out the posts if you want to try it yourself.

 

After feeding the new one and wrapping it for storage, I brought out the first one from last week and also gave it another feeding with my Port 

wine.

 

While the cake baked, I got my french bread recipe going in the bread maker.  I use it just for the dough part and then shape and do the second rise myself.

 

I went a little different this time, usually I make 8 loaves from the recipe, but I went with 16 smaller baguettes this time.  It's a very easy recipe to make and the bread always turns out so good.

 

I freeze these and then pull out whatever I need and let sit on the counter for a few minutes.  

I wanted to tell you as well that I watched the first episode of the new Robin Hood series.  It was very good although forewarning, it does have some sexual content.  It never used to bother me when I was younger, but I must say I just really dislike all the sexual content in shows and movies.  I don't understand the need for any of that, maybe I've been watching too many Turkish tv where they tell wonderful stories without all that nonsense and sometimes without even a kiss.

 

Anyway, aside from that it was a good first episode.  You can watch the first episode for free on Amazon Prime and then it is available through MGM, which I don't have and at the moment it is definitely not a must especially as we're still dealing with this ridiculous shutdown.

 

With that said, that was my Tuesday, I made some greek meatballs for dinner with some pasta, deviated from the original meal plan but that's how life goes.  I don't always follow the menu to the letter, I change days here and there, or make something slightly different.  Instead of Quinoa, I made pasta for the boys and I just had some brown rice.

 

Now I will love you and leave you.  I'll come back tomorrow morning for my Wordless Wednesday, with a picture of the Solstice Star Blanket progress.