Too busy for Tea

I’ve noticed that I’ve been somewhat unplugged from the blogosphere lately…even from my computer completely. It’s been kind of refreshing. With the end of summer wrap-up we have so many things on the calendar in such a small amount of time.

I’ll be around here and there over the next couple weeks very randomly. I’m not trying to ditch you, if i don’t answer an email as promptly as I used to…I’m just not checking email very often.

Happy end of summer to everyone! I’ll be back to my “normal” self after Labor Day.

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photo, Tea Tuesday

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201108/18

Tea Time round robin theme

This was the last book for me to work in during our 6 player round robin. It has been so much fun!

This last book is heading back home to Canada, hopefully later today.

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Altered book, round robin, swap

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201108/17

Every once in a while…

…I feel very domestic.

As in old school… starting from scratch with all basic ingredients.

Today was one of those days.

I was inspired by this blog post by Krista to try making butter.

Into the mixer goes the heavy whipping cream…

Several minutes of high speed mixing brought me to here…

Notice the solids separated from the liquid….that liquid would be buttermilk. Cool huh!

After draining the buttermilk off and “washing” the butter…see Krista’s recipe…

I ended up with this nice ball of butter.

Remember the buttermilk I mentioned earlier…

Oh yeah..pancakes for lunch baby!

During the midst of all that mixing I made a batch of salsa or maybe it would be pica de gallo depending on how you want to look at it.

Aren’t veggies beautiful!?!

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kitchen, not art at all

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201108/16

Tea Tuesday: Enjoying the garden

On yet another beautiful morning, I am having a little quiet time on the deck before diving into the day.

Days like today remind me why we put up with the extremes of Minnesota weather.

We’ve been blessed with an abundant garden once I figured out how to keep the critters at bay. The fencing and the flags along with an occasional sprinkle of blood meal seem to have done the trick.