Keeping busy...

Apple Pear Pecan coffee cake

We received a basket of fruit recently with apples, pears, oranges,  cheese, nuts, and crackers. Now we eat fruit, but not a lot... so I thought I'd use it up by making an apple and pear coffee cake. Found a great recipe for one and made it memorial day. Turned out really good!

Hope all of you had a nice memorial day. Ours was quiet as we are still staying home... and intend to continue to do so for a while.

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I'm continuing to make the cone-shaped masks.  They are a lot more comfortable than the others, but I still haven't figured out how to add a filter to these...

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Funny story:  

DH and I just came back from getting our groceries at curb-side pickup. Central Market does a great job with this... fast service and helpers are masked and practice social distancing. And they are almost always good about getting our orders right (maybe a few subsitutions or not availables). Anyhow, once home and putting things away (after disinfecting) I realized that we had a lot more potatoes than I'd ordered. There's only the 3 of us, so I only ordered .5 lbs of small red potatoes (thinking this was probably about 4 small ones to add to a roast). But I got 5 lbs of potatoes!

Not knowing what I was going to do with 5 lbs of potatoes, I called to let CM know about the mistake... not planning to return anything... just to let them know. I'd do 'something' with them. But the girl I spoke to laughed and said for us to share them with our neighbors and she would credit us for the mistake.  Thought that was nice of her and we ended up giving half of the order to our neighbors next door! 

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Finished the crochet baby blanket I was working on. 

Now I've started another. Was following a pattern that I thought was using a simple single and double crochet... but realized later that it was supposed to be  a double treble (dtr). Since I've already done several rows (and kind of like the looks of the pattern created) decided to stick with it. 

This is what the pattern I'm mistakingly using looks like:

... and so life goes on during this strange time, talking, texting, Skyping, and I will be using Zoom for the first time this coming Saturday. The women from my pottery class decided to do this. We had been texting for a bit, but someone suggested using Zoom. 

One last thing to mention here. Perhaps it's age-related, but I'm not sure. Have you ever found something that you always kept in one place missing?  Looked all over for it, gave up... and then one day (or possibly weeks later) it shows up right where it was supposed to be in the first place?

I have had this happen on several occasions. I call it the 'mystery disappearances'...  just wondering if this happens to anyone else.

Ok... I'm late getting this post out. But hope you all had a good Memorial weekend, stay home and stay safe!

Hugs,
Rian