A Quilt is Born
A few days ago I was in the mood to sew something. I didn’t want to just make another random quilt block; I almost have enough of those to make a (hodge-podge of blocks) quilt. I was thinking of a small log cabin quilt, as that’s been my favorite for the past few months. I…
In Memory of Aiko
“Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be so hard*” He was purring, softly, right through the end. But it was time and I promised him a long time ago I would do the right thing at the right time. We had a good 2 or 3 day good-bye/hospice last week…
Snowy Trees
I haven’t made any snow related posts in a few years, and last night’s snow was heavier than usual, so I took some pictures. It snowed hard and was very windy all night, but today is relatively calm, sunny and bright!
Winter Kitties
The kitties have been especially cute this winter. Here is a small selection of their cuteness!
Homemade Pepper Relish
The first 3 pictures are from 2021. That’s because I’ve been making this pepper relish for three harvests and am only now posting the recipe! The last two are from this year’s relish project. This year’s batch is a bit warmer, as I had a LOT of peppers at the end of the season, so…
Cool Colorado
We made a short visit to Colorado earlier this month. It was too early to catch fall colors, but any time you get to spend in Rocky Mountain National Park is a good time. Below are a few photos from our recent visit. I got some nice views I got while climbing the rocks at…
PicSurprise!
For reasons not entirely understood, I undertook to program an app using SwiftUI and Xcode on my Mac. I succeeded! Having previously written a bot for Mastodon which, upon request, shares a random image from this blog, that’s where I decided to start. For the bot, I created a rich data source with image names,…