T Stands for Tuesday & Congratulations to the KC Chiefs & Spun Yarn & a Question

  Hi everyone, it's a gorgeous day here on the lake-close to 70 degrees f with sunshine and a bit windy too.  I got out of the house early this morning and stocked up on fresh veggies and fruits as winter comes back tomorrow and the rest of the week. After our 2 pm meal I am going to take a walk around the lake today.

  I am linking up with T Stands for Tuesday with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth-find the link on my sidebar. Only requirement to join us is to share your drink related photo.

  Do you like to get a sweatshirt or t shirt with your favorite sports team?  I love to do that-I have  Blues (hockey) and Royals (baseball) sweatshirts and couch blankets (which I make) and I have lots of Green Bay Packers sweatshirts as I have been a fan of theirs since I went to college in northern Wisconsin in '67 (the first super bowl) I have moved around a bit over the years since then and follow the local team as well-I was a huge Bronco fan when I lived in Colorado for a few years and during one of their super bowl wins.
   So I have been thinking of getting a KC Chiefs sweatshirt over the last few years but I don't like the bright red-I am not a red person lol  I did want to find something before the big super bowl game though so I went online and found one I liked that was rather vintage on ebay-this color red I could live with, I think the owner said this was from the 90s and it fits me perfect-this is an attempt of a selfie without my face 😀

  I decided to pick up some shrimp and found the local store was still carrying those USA wild caught shrimps that I bought for New Years eve- perfect for Super Bowl Sunday-although Larry does not watch any sports, he does enjoy the shrimp
     I love to watch sports & am waiting for the Olympics to begin

I made a large fresh salad and also a cabbage slaw to go with & we had the cherry cheesecake left over for dessert. Last time I undercooked them just a tad so this time they were perfect.

  I have to admit that I was getting nervous about the KC Chiefs by the first part of the 4th quarter-and this year's commercials for the most part were really bad-so I recorded the last of the game and watched a movie haha. I needed to get myself calmed down a bit and not so anxious .
   I went back to watch the game zipping over the commercials. Awesome win-so happy for the team and especially for their great coach Andy Reid.
  I turned the game on 30 minutes before it started and really enjoyed the tribute to past players-I recognized many of them including Brett Favre. and I really enjoyed the video bringing the game ball into the stadium-I have watched that several times now-the NFL was also celebrating 100 years-and this was honoring the next generation with children.

Over the past week I have been spinning while watching tv. I had started spinning this blue on my spinning wheels probably about 3 years ago-I enjoyed spinning this more on my drop spindle and it turned out much nicer-I am a spinner that enjoys the process but will probably never get super good at it-but that's ok

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  The last of it that I finished spinning

Previous spun on spinning wheels-and some of this has been plyed with two of the yarns

  I am glad I did not purchase anymore of this as it feels like in her dye process she felted the wool but at least I can see that my spinning has improved over the years. This might weave up into some comfy pillows.

I also dug out another bag of wool roving that is the breed corriodale I am pleased with these results as well

I have quite allot of this to spin up. When I reorganized all of my wool bags to spin-I wanted to get these two finished up-Next up may be the Yellowstone  colors inspired fibers to spin up and then I have lots of wools that need carding first before spun I did get all the raw wool washed and dried before bringing it to the lake house.

For my beverage share this week-I have started making up and drinking fresh lemon and ginger water. I really like it and hopes it improves my digestion
  There are allot of different recipes for this but I found a simple one I like:

Wash the outside of the lemons (I spray vinegar and hydrogen peroxide-let sit a couple minutes and rinse well-gets rid of ecoli etc)  peel and slice up about an inch long piece of ginger

Bring 2 1/2 cups of water to a boil-turn off the heat add the lemon and ginger cover with lid

 time for 30 minutes

Strain and enjoy-can add a sweetener if you like. This makes enough for two glasses to drink during the day. I do then fill this jar up with the lemon and ginger and water and place in the frig to enjoy one more day. Not as strong, but I wanted to get one more day from the ingredients

  I do have a question about making one's own molding paste. I think it was Caty that shared a recipe last week-thank you-and I found another similiar one online. I bought my ingredients but I can't find just regular talc. I did buy some baby powder but reading the ingredients again there is no talc in it but cornstarch instead. So my question is will this still work with the cornstarch instead of the talc??

   Have an awesome new week everyone and Happy T