Daily Notes- July 28th

It's hot today.  Even in the house.  I have leftover zucchini pizza to eat.  Cold.  Or I can toast it a bit. But cold sounds okay.  I followed the directions from Food52 exactly (it helped that they also had a video of the two gals making the pizza) and it all happened just like on the video. I'm eating it cold. But it was very delicious hot out of the oven--and crispy.

I so want to have a slice of this ice cream cake.  But I don't have the skillset to actually make one. Or eat one.  But it does look perfectly delicious (minus the liquor). Made from grocery store ice creams.
I had my one and only ice cream cake on a visit to Georgia to see my friend.  The one we ate had a chocolate cake layer somewhere in there.  It was wonderful.  I looked forward to dessert time each evening until it was gone.

The other sweet memory from those visits was sewing together.  We made quite a few quilts and my friend hand quilted them all.  I would love to be sitting on the couch next to her-sewing my little squares and hearing her mutter-"dumbest thing I have ever seen--what useful thing could you ever make out of them?"  We had to make useful things.

I watered the tomatoes on the driveway and the fig tree on the back porch and I just turned on the sprinkler for the peach trees out front.  They seemed to have stopped dropped as many infant peaches since I started watering.  But there are still quite a few peaches on the trees. G turned on the big sprinkler for the garden out back.  We seem to be watering more weeds than vegetables out back.  We also have added a Beech tree in a pot to the back deck -for me to water.  We'll plant it when the weather is cooler.  And when we decide on a a  "spot" for it.  It's a tree that G likes to look at in the woods.  We'll see if it likes suburban life.

While watching PBS I stitched a handful of little one inch squares.  It's a very good project as there isn't much to think about as you baste a ¼ inch turn all around the edges.  Exact is very nice.  Not quite right works just fine.   I need to be starting a few 2.5 inch squares.  Turning their quarter inch edges and basting.  I'm not sure I will make 3 inch ones but I could surprise myself.  I saw on the website for this class--- someone had made half inch squares.  And a few quarter inch squares.  They were very cute but not my idea of a good time.

Goodwill was lucky today--must have been my new cloth bag with the blue handles.  I found two lovely white short sleeved tee shirts.  The kind I wear everyday and the kind I sleep in everyday. New ones are made from a silky (slimy feeling) cotton these days.  But these were older.  Hardly worn.  My small stash of really old tees are looking their age.  Frayed on the edges of the neck turn.  I have considered making bias and covering the edges of the old tees with a pale faded to nothing cloth I might find someday but not today.  And I bought a one dollar linen shirt (so soft) to cut up.  Beautiful color that isn't represented in my fabric closet.  Deep plum.  And a white with blue stripes loose, thin shirt for hot August days to wear not cut.  I do have dye sample squares from a friend in California--that are sort of plum colored.  This new fabric will "play well" with the dye samples.  I manipulated a purchased lime green into the brown tinged lime I needed to go with the dye samples.

Karen- you have given me just the push I needed to start "making" my own colors (to go with yours).  Thank You!!!