Just some ramblings.....

I know we live in the middle of nowhere and are pretty much hermits but we have TV with a million channels and high speed Internet so why hadn't I heard of air fryers until a couple of weeks ago?

Anyway, I did come across them and did my due diligence as to their usefulness and decided we would benefit from one.  We virtually gave up eating home made chips (french fries) because of the high usage of cooking oil and wastage of said oil. 

In my research I downloaded an air fryer cook book and in it was directions to make Scotch eggs.  That was the decider!  I love them and had never been successful in making them before.  Plus my husband loves chips so the thought of being able to serve them not dripping in oil or fat was another decider.

Next thing was to find one at a reasonable cost so I spent a lot of time looking on the Internet and checking reviews etc.  I found one for $69.99 from Avalon Bay on Amazon which had great reviews and was on sale.  So I ordered it and it arrived just over a week ago.

Yep, the first thing I made was Scotch eggs.  Totally delicious and perfect, no splitting of the sausage meat and cooked to perfection and again not dripping in oil.

I wanted to make a cover for it so I went through my fabric stash and found some fabric suitable for our home and surroundings and made one.  Now I plan to make more for some of my other appliances, first being the food mixer which is not used on a day to day basis and gets dusty.

Next ramble is about the weaved squares mentioned in my previous post , I have made 20 or so now.  I purchased some of the same yarn but with different colours.  I am enjoying making them a lot.

Next on the agenda is the mowers and the mowing.  I couldn't mow after my surgery for a couple of months as the discs they put in my neck need to fuse.  Finally the surgeon gave me the all clear to mow but my mower was playing up.  We both have riding mowers as we mow about 6 acres or so and my husband's mower fritzed also.  Fortunately, it was at the time the grass started slowing down because of the heat.  They went to the mower guy but he was going on vacation for two weeks, after one thing and another we eventually got them back.  My husband got his first but he ran over a wasps nest and was attacked by the swarm and suffered multiple wasp stings and ended up in the hospital.  It made him a bit leery to mow again while it was warm.  I got mine back just over a week ago. Then there was a week of hospital appointments and things to be done so we didn't get mowing again till Friday and today and I have to say it was a pleasure to mow after so long and the weather was perfect for it. He wouldn't let me mow the very long grass though so he did that I did the shorter stuff.

Finally, on one of our trips out this past week we went looking for a wheelchair for my husband for in his hunting blind as the nice new leather office chair he got for it squeaks.  Oh darn!, I will have to use it for my computer desk. Ha ha!  Anyway, I digress, when in the Thrift Store, which didn't have any wheelchairs, I found these knitting rings and yarn in a bag for $2.  What can I say? I am still a kid at heart and love toys to play with.

So I am making a tube lol, have no idea what I will do with it but it is fun to do.

That was a lot of rambling wasn't it, bet you are glad I don't blog every day eh?

It took a lot of failures but finally I can use the loom successfully

Who would have thought that the pin loom would prove to be so difficult to use?  I know I struggled with it many years ago but back then I didn't have the time to persevere.  This time I was bound and determined to succeed.

Armed with yarn and instructions last week I sat down to give it a go.  I failed........

Next day I tried again, and the next and the next. This pattern of failure was repeated for two more days.

The edges were all out of wack and this was after I had tried to fix them

Three edges were OK but the 4th went awry

Oh no, incorrect weaving and ratty edges, total failure!

A bit better but some mis weaving

Then yesterday it all fell into place and I made a good square.

Finally, a success!

Then I made some more

Phew! Thank goodness.

I am working on a baby blanket for the next baby that that comes along.  My youngest son is in a serious relationship with his girlfriend, also one of my grand daughters is too with her boyfriend so with the Universe's blessing and not so long into the future, there might be a new baby. Hopefully a marriage or two first though!

I will get some blue variegated yarn too to make squares and some white to crochet them all together and put an edge all around.  Maybe even back it too with some nice soft baby fleece.  Got plenty of time!