Early August

I had a party last week, but the guests of honor couldn't make it, M. had a sciatica attack, and E. took her to the ER.  J. and her boyfriend, W., showed up though.  I made chicken tacos for dinner and we had chips for an appetizer and pineapple cake for dessert.  It went well.

Then, the other day, we went over to the next lot for hamburgers, hot dogs, cake and pie with J. and S. our Canadian sometime-neighbors.  They bring their motor home down a few times a year to O.S.  That also went very well.

I haven't been doing much crafting lately, although I have been writing some.  I ordered 6 yards of batik (3 different ones) from Marshall Dry Goods.  I would like to make a couple skirts from my two favorite ones.  Here's one of the fabrics:

I've been making soup out of a soup cookbook;  this is my 10% project.  I'm making 10% of the recipes which works out to be about 18 recipes.  I only have four or five left to make.  I'll probably have to buy the ingredients for the next soup recipe.  Here is the cookbook I'm working from:

August is traditionally my play month, so I'm hoping to have fun this month.  We'll see!  I have writing goals this month, so there's going to be work involved too.

All for now!  AW