Hot artichoke dip and bruschetta with pear-cranberry chutney, brie, and salted walnuts.
Always a great get-together.
Coffee with Adrienne
Always fun!
To Penn Valley
Because Tim was going to play glow-ball (night golf using LED golf balls) on Saturday night, Maria invited me up to Lake Wildwood. I met her, after her round of golf, at the clubhouse. Her sister and husband were there also.
Maria, Theresa, Roy
Four Seasons Craft Fair
The last two weeks have been busy with getting walnuts ready for Friday night and Saturday morning. I have 29 pounds of walnut halves, 25 8-ounce bags of candied walnuts, and 30 snack size bags of candied walnuts – 10 walnuts in each bag. I have a rectangular table this year and a great location at the back of the room – both improvements from last year.
We were able to set up early in the day. There were 25 crafters this year. Ena-Laurie had a great jewelry table next to me:
This artist had beautiful fused glass pieces:
The view from behind my table. The craft fair was part of the twice-monthly TGIF so it was very well attended.
Friday night was for residents. Saturday morning was for family and friends. I was surprised it was also well attended:
Good news: I sold ALL my inventory except for a few of the snack size bags.
Work at Jibe
This afternoon, I worked at Jibe for a couple of hours while everyone was out of the office. There was absolutely nothing to do until 2 minutes before closing time. And then I struggled through my one and only sale to add money onto his wife’s Jibe Express card.
Bike rides
On Tuesday I went for a 6.5-mile test ride to see how happy my ankle would be afterwards. It was ok, not great but ok. I sent out an email to the Four Season bicycle interest group. On Wednesday, Pete rode with me.
Sunflowers in Hummingbird Park
On Thursday, Jean-Marie and Ingrid rode.
Avery and Carson
I watched Carson and Avery after school on Wednesday. Avery showed me his most recent Lego constructions
and the nests he’d made. One upstairs,
the other downstairs.
Meanwhile,
Walnut processing this week
My walnut processing “factory” in the garage was humming this week. The gathered walnuts are a mix of perfect walnuts, imperfect walnuts, and debris – all that needs to be sorted. I poured a half bag into the shallow plastic box each time. The perfect walnuts went into the white bowl which was then dumped into a bag until it was almost full. The imperfect walnuts went to the right and were dumped into a separate bag – I may just throw these away in the end. The debris left in the plastic box was dumped into a third bag.
The perfect walnuts then get weighed, 12 pounds per bag, and put on shelves. I’m at 439 pounds with lots to go. The other garage activity was cracking a bowl (after bowl after bowl) full of the perfect walnuts,
then sitting at the dining room table with the tv remote nearby and shelling them,
followed by making candied walnuts and making one-pound packages of walnut halves.
Watching SAC
On my calendar, I abbreviate Sophia Avery Carson to SAC. Tonight Thais and Lenin went out. When I arrived, Dog Bingo was already laid out on the floor.
Avery, “Carson, get on my back while I do a pushup.”
Soccer Saturday
While Carson and I went to the playground,
Avery scored a goal!
This was the last soccer game of the season.
