T Stands for Tuesday

 Good Morning Dear Readers,

     Welcome to the weekly T event where we gather together with friends and link up with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth. Many share their latest art or crafts with the required drink related photo.

    I also wanted to mention Food Wednesdays here at the top of my post. Our next Food Wednesdays will be next week on July 6th where I will also be announcing some very exciting news about our link up event. I am very excited about the new direction and will announce the news on the July 6th post and link up. Hope you all will be as excited as I am. 😀

  Towards the end of last week, I worked on my bag project-going through my hand dyes etc, and spent a few days cutting out pieces for 10 bags. if interested in the process more here   So now that I have a blank "canvas" for the front design I will be going through my bags of rust dyes, sun dyes and my hand dye pieces and cutting up pieces to cover the fronts-similar to a crazy quilt  Then the next stage is to design the sashiko stitch patterns I want to use.  I am still waiting for a couple stencils and also the washable marking pens. I hadn't realized that these were coming form England when I purchased them, but they had the best price with free shipping. So hoping they will arrive by first week in July

  Being in my mid 70's now it's way past time to start using and creating with these fabrics. Hand dyeing fabric has been very rewarding for me-I did allot with natural materials from our woods home, really enjoyed rust dyeing, sun painting-dyeing, and even flower pounded pieces.  I think these bags will be a fun project to enjoy my pieces and to learn something new as well. The most rewarding of this project is using them finally-instead of being stored in bags-and shared. So a win win for me.

  Sunday we finally got lots of rain and most of all a cool down. The cool down just feels so good after weeks of mid to high 90's F here in the Ozarks. We will be in the '80s F for a couple days before it heats up again.  

 The "deck duck" (Valerie named her) visits most every day. Larry believes she is a mallard duck.

  This photo came out interesting so I  kept it

Sorry below a bit blurry but it was raining a bit at the time-and taken from indoors through the glass

We have many different bird visitors-many small birds, lots of woodpeckers, doves,  cow bird-very fun to watch them early mornings (I put the seed out around 5 am)

  Over the weekend we had fish and french fries.  This was the catfish and crappie that I had fried when our Wisconsin friends came to visit. I had lots left over and this fish froze so well. I froze them on a cookie sheet first, and then placed them in a big freezer bag once frozen. I heat them up in the oven with the french fries and the fish tastes like it just came out of the fryer.  

For my drink share, I searched my cups for my favorite Yellowstone coffee cup-inside the cup is the map of the park. It had gotten pushed way to the back of the cupboard. (we have allot of lime here in the water as the filter shows after I wash it) (and to keep the coffee maker running well I use distilled water to keep the coffee maker clean and it makes good coffee too)

Happy T everyone, enjoy your new week