This is a short entry. I sat down and started to learn how to use electric quilt this evening. So far I have created a simple quilt. It was very easy to do, with practice, I should be able to use other patterns and color combinations to create anything I want.

Dinner tonight was beef with barbeque sauce, cabbage and radish slaw, and scallion biscuits. I made potato/corn chowder for lunch tomorrow and a buttermilk/scallion salad dressing. Tomorrow night, tandori chicken, roasted potatoes and tomato/cucumber salad.

Community Supported Agriculture

This week was the start of my vegetable shares for this season. The picture shows the vegetables in my share from Sanhill Organics (http://sandhillorganics.com/2007_sandhill_organics.htm). I pick up my shares once a week at Prairie Crossing which is a few miles north. I enjoy the fresh taste of the vegetables and fruit that I get in the shares, I like supporting local agriculture and knowing where my food came from, and I like the surprise of picking up a different assortment of produce every week and planning dinner around it.

This week the share included green garlic, asparagus, chives, salad greens, radishes, red potatoes and tomato puree. Friday, I had a salad for lunch with radishes, salad greens, cucumber, tomato and tuna. Then, I made tomato/asparagus risotto for dinner with some of the garlic, the tomato puree and the asparagus. Potato side dishes and radish garnishes are planned for the rest of the week.

Dogs -- Yesterday we took pictures of Cain and Abel. They should be full grown now since they will be 2 years old in August. They are Sharpei/Lab mixes. Cain is our blond Sharbador. He is my 70 pound lap dog. Abel is our Labrapei, he is larger than Cain and more like a lab. He fetches and is obsessed with birds. They are brothers from the same litter.

I have been doing a lot of stitching lately and finishing some very old UFOs. This includes a Bent Creek counting book started when my children where young enough to be interested in one:

I also finished a counted needlepoint design that I started as a present for my father. Water is Life has waves in it, perfect for a man who studies turbulent flow patterns.

I worked on some newer patterns too. I finished an Easter design -- Candy is Dandy by Val's Stitching Stuff. The bunny looks so happy in the design that he makes me smile to look at him.

Although there has been lots of stitching, there has not been as much reading going on. I finished The Rings of Saturn by Sebold and listened to The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox all the way through.