Well it had to happen sometime, I guess. I missed my first Make N’ Tell day yesterday. The only thing I made on Day 21 was a huge mistake: I tried to console myself after a disappointing resident retreat day with a boatload of fried bar food. My hippie locavore stomach did not care for this, and the food choice quite literally backfired on me and left me feeling so weak I crawled to bed at 6:15 and didn’t wake up until morning.
Today I finished up a whole bunch of canning that was ready to roll from the last few days food prep. The net gain was 2 quarts of apple sauce, 2 quarts of apple butter, and 6 quarts of tomato sauce. I also threw another batch of apple butter in the crock pot and worked on Max’s scarf for another hour. I thought it was closer to done than it actually is, so I’m still humming along on it. I spent some time on my special birthday art project tonight, too. That’s right, Make N’ Tell Day 23 coincides with Sarah Year 34. For now, here’s a photo of today’s effort. As you can see, I’m learning a great deal about my photo editing tools this month. Fun!
Sarah,
Do you realize that you have done more in your 34 years than most people do in a lifetime……………….awesome
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I’ve really been enjoying the make-n-tell blog posts and I can’t wait to see you in just over a week!
Happy birthday! Something must’ve been going around Monday — I missed Make’n'Tell, too, but my excuse wasn’t nearly as good as yours: I just plain forgot.
Glad to hear you’re still knitting away…a good rule of thumb about scarves is that they will seem (and actually measure) “almost done” for an ungodly amount of time — much longer than you would think if you do the math on however long it took you to reach “almost done.” This is often called “the black hole of knitting.” There is no way that I know of to avoid it. But one day, you will measure and be Actually Done (or, if the knitting gods are laughing at you and you’re making something where length actually matters, like a sweater sleeve, you will have overshot Actually Done by a couple of inches).