T Stands for Tuesday & This & That With Lots of Photos

T Day is here again-every Tuesday we link up with hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth to share a beverage related post-We all must share a photo of whatever our beverage is. You are most welcome to join in the fun-find link in my right hand column.

This past week has been another very up and down weather event-seems to be the pattern for February this year. I needed to pick up some things in town this morning and didn't realize it was only in the very low 20's brrrrr, took my car a bit to warm up and get the ice off the windows. Now late afternoon it is sunny and warm-feels like high 50s f or warmer. lol Tomorrow promises to be even warmer so we are headed to the lake house to work. However, by the coming weekend we will be very cold again- in the teens

Last week I was debating with myself if I wanted to buy more seed and corn for the wildlife. I usually stop feeding end of March depending on the weather or earlier. I decided not to get any more-- than over the weekend I thought well maybe one more bag of corn -lol I only have about 5 days left of the feed.
     Well my decision was made for me. Friday into all night and then a bit in the morning Saturday the MFA burned to the ground. This is where farmers and ranchers mostly, buy feed for their livestock. Here is a link    I am glad I was not in town when this fire hit-a huge loss to this community. I am sure they will rebuild-just a matter of time and they are needed.

I worked a few days on my August 2018 pages

This is the lay out so far-nothing stitched down yet on the left side-but some on the right side

(just click photos for full page view)

The piece with the flowers-I stamped on to a piece of cotton quilt fabric, then grabbed some gel pens and markers to color in, added some stickers, and sewed on the little fairy  This reminded me of my pretty zinnias.

Blogging art friend Barbara and I chat online, and send each other things from time to time-this was a piece of her handmade paper that she wrote a note on-so I wanted to add it to my journal

A few lake house photos-you can tell from the snow, or not snow that we were there at different times- during the same week though

This is the bedroom closet-the doors were horrible so we took those off and I am going to add a spring rod and make or buy curtains. This purple has been really difficult to cover,even with the kilnz first-and this wall on top needed to have that wall stuff put on it-sanded down to cover up a bunch of holes-but I really didn't want to go through all of that-I mostly wanted it to be clean and then fresh paint. I guess I was being too lazy but we have ourselves on a timeline that we are trying to keep.

The last time we were at the lake house on Sunday-the water was really rough, allot of wind-so I was trying to capture that in these photos

This is the view out our bedroom window

I saw several canada geese pairs swimming by

Remember last week I had shared that I learned about a new blue color? The first color in 200 years. I think that is so amazing.
   Anyways Crayola bought the rights to use the color and they have crayons so far with this new blue. I went on their site and decided to buy a box with the 4 bonus crayons with this new blue. They were not selling the blue crayons by itself.
   I want to do some art playing around with crayons sometime this year, so I can use the rest of these crayons-I want to try that batik technique.

I was surprised with all the neat offerings on Crayola's site-I wanted some oil pastels again-they work nice on fabrics, and they had things on sale too

So I took advantage of sales, free shipping, and new things-and I loved the tins that some of them came in

I also bought a cookbook I have been wanting-if you love to read cookbooks this is really a beautiful book-I have the kindle version but it is black and white, and I just really wanted the book. The bone broth recipes in this book was worth it-that was a new to me on the process. I have been following the price and finally found a good one on ebay

Saturday we went down to the river for a yearly event. a jump in that has been going on for over 30 years. The weekend before it was too icey so was called off. The kids love the brownies that I bring, and we also donated some items for their raffle. They do this event in honor of a friend that died too young-and in his honor they give to local charities-this year it was for the food bank.


   We were one of the first there-it was a beautiful day for this event. It ended up we had friends coming over to visit, and this event was later that usual-so missed out on the food and to watch the kids jump in the river-sigh
  But it was all good and fun while we were there

Can I offer you a piece of cake-hot out of the oven??  It does have carbs but I have not made one of these upside down cakes in awhile. On top of the butter-coconut sugar, and fresh blueberries I added ground cashews-that was really a nice addition to this cake.

(don't look at all that dust on my computer-I just put it there for a quick photo lol


My beverage share--While I am typing up my post today I grabbed a bottle of Ice-a sparkling black raspberry with 0 sugar, 0 salt, 0 artificial anything-this brand comes in many different flavors.
 It's funny how taking the photo at my computer desk-the screen looks purple lol

Happy T everyone