Four Buck/Five Book Challenge

Since I failed last year's romance reading challenge, I decided to try again with this bundle of romances I picked up for four dollars at a junk shop. I happen to like romantic suspense more than general romance, and maybe a five books would be somewhat less intimidating.

The new challenge: I'm giving myself until the end of summer to read them, and then do a write-up about all five.

It's difficult for me to read for pleasure anymore, and when I do it's generally cookbooks. I'm not sure why my reading habits have changed so drastically over the last few years. I certainly have enough time for it, but it's hard for me to sit still unless I'm doing something with my hands. I'm more active now than I've been in any other time in my life except early childhood. Maybe it's because I don't experience the need to escape my real life anymore, and all the toxic people are out of it. Anyway, I'm making an effort to read more, and that's what counts.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

In the Kitchen Garden

Our strawberries are taking over the kitchen garden, but I don't mind. This week I want to make some strawberry banana nice cream (a vegan version of ice cream) and maybe a chocolate cake with berries and cream for the topping. There's thyme in the garden now, too, which I'll dry and jar for cooking along with the chives and the oregano. Next we'll plant cucumbers, as I use a ton of those in our salads and for snacks.

Rayen

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