Feather your Nest Friday, 28th February, 2025.
Today is very special. It's the last day of summer! Literally, all the planets have lined up! The weather for the next ten days looks very nice. Hopefully we are past the heat. Can you tell that is a relief!? I love the changing seasons but summer is the hardest here. Also... we can just be ready to move on. Well... I am ready!
Apples have been coming in from the tree, a few every day. This is an easier way to manage. I gave some to Mum. Some apple baking is coming.
I began making kitchen towels. They are very absorbent as they are two layers of cotton with a layer of flannelette in the middle. The flannelette is from a king size flat sheet from the thrift store. It is huge!
Once I had my idea straight I went through fabrics to mix and match prints and colours. Then I went through my trims and matched those up. I have a lot of little bits and pieces to use. Now I have about twenty cut out and in the evening I crochet the matching flower. This is really good fun.
I made scones for Mum.
I used the last zucchini in a slice. It was really good! Because I am getting eggs daily this was a close to free pie.
My big cook up was spaghetti sauce which used up most of the tomatoes. This made up heaps of meals full of goodness.
I had a lovely day having lunch with a friend. Then we went to the thrift/community store. I found a pale pink chenille bedspread!! And a set of crochet pale blue doilies. Next week you will see how I will use these! I knew as soon as I saw them!
To support this store I have made myself a rule to try and go once a week and to take a donation with me each time. Also Mum and Chloe have both found things to send with me.
I was given packets of snap lock craft bags.... perfect for sealing things like dried herbs. These will be so handy for kitchen/food hampers that I make up. It is wonderful having friends that keep their eye out for things that are useful!
Tom achieved a milestone reading his first ever book! I told me "I can read now." Like he woke up and suddenly was miraculously able to read. 😊
I wrote quite a few Happy Mail letters! It is also really fun to do. Hopefully after a year it will just be my habit forever.
How was your week? I hope you found little ways to get ahead and feather your nest!xxx
Dear Annabel, Tom is a wonderful boy! How lucky you are to be there with all this precious milestones!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you are over Summer heat, also this means Spring will arrive here, too. We have some milder days now, the ice is melting on the river and I am waiting for some rain, althouhg they not forecast it. Everything is bone dry and, since we did not have snow, only freezing temperatures, there is no moist in the soil for plants. I have my first snowdrops in the flower garden.
Better days means eggs form the chick girls and lady duck, longer days out in the nature and longer walks with Charlie along the river. I started sorting the seeds and already planted indoors some garlic that started sprouting. But the herbes on the kitchen windowsill are happy and green.
I read an excellent book written by one of my favourite writer, Pamela Terry, *The Sweet Taste of Muscadine* and I painted a gift for my boy*s girlfriend, since they had a year of relation to celebrate yesterday. Isn*t young love beautiful?
And about marriage love, I baked my husband his favourite cake and he loved it. (for those who do not know me, I am a legend in not baking cakes or ruining even the simple ones). It was much appreciated.
Almost every day I took home lefovers from my workmates and more than half of the meals for the dogs, cats and chickens were solved this way. A big help that otherwise would have got in the garbage bin.
Tomorrow is the first of March and in my area the girls/women are given a little sign of Spring called *Martisor* (pronounced murtzeeshor) and we pin it on the coat/blouse/dress and wear it for the whole month like a brooch, tied with a cord woven from a white and a red thread. Sometimes it is offered with early flower Spring, like snowdrops or crocuses. Do you have any traditions for the first of March?
Happy Spring days / Happy Autumn Days for everyone - sending love from far away. Laura_s_world from Romania