Traveling With Sara and Bea

This was a very special day for me.  A bright start to the morning.

Gary met a friend for breakfast and I made an "Apple Betty Pie" for dessert tonight.

Picked some flowers while it was baking.

Around 2:45 our friend Sara and her dog Bea arrived.  They left Kentucky at 5am.  Little Wonder was very tuned in through the dirty kitchen storm door.

Sara grabbed a quick cup of coffee and then the three of us were off to Acorn Works Fiber to pick up some roving Sara had sent to Diane.  I got in the car with Bea

and Gary and Sara figured out the directions.

She always travels with a couple of sheep in her car.

We had no trouble finding the place.

Do you know what roving is?  Wool from several of Sara's sheep had been processed and now it was ready to spin.  There were 7 bags.

Bea was very patient, as I was given a tour.  Learned a lot!

We headed home around 4 and when we got back to the farm Sara, Bea and Gary talked a lot about garden stuff.

While they were doing that, I got dinner ready.

Bea supervised.

Dinner was delicious.  Right then, the sky turned pink and I had to grab some photos.

We spent some time by the fire before Sara and Bea headed off to Robin's for some more sheep stuff.  Our visit was short but very sweet.  I met Sara through blogging almost 15 years ago.  The first time we actually met in person, she was coming to this area to help a friend (Robin) who was birthing a huge number of new lambs.  I told her I would make her dinner if she had time to stop by and she was welcome to spend the night.  Later, she told me she had decided not to commit to staying overnight as we had never met (and her husband thought she was nuts to even consider it).   Well, we really hit it off and have been in touch this whole time.  (She decided Gary and I were OK and did stay). You just know when it's right.  I wish she and Tim lived next door....

Night all.

Good Light All Over the Place

We are still in that cold morning near 60 degrees in the afternoon pattern.  This is how it looked at 8am.

Gary went down to Dan's for coffee and Little Wonder joined me in getting off to a slow start.

No matter where he went...there was sunshine on him.

My friend Sara is coming up from Kentucky tomorrow afternoon so I worked on the back porch, vacuumed, did laundry, made a big batch up of bean salad...and later worked on the worst tasting chicken soup I have ever made.

Gary finished planting the last 100 garlic cloves in the raised beds and now he can relax.

While he was doing that, I went out to the Studio to work on my "Big Bertha" example.  I transferred my drawing to a card.....

and started painting.

I still have a long way to go.

LW was in and out while I was doing my thing.

I know I am a little weird about good light, but it was everywhere.

I went back to the house....and Gary was putting away his gardening stuff.

About this soup!!!!  I have been so careful and tried a low sodium recipe that could not have been worse.  I ended up putting in some better than bouillon and just did not eat very much.  I was still under my quota and will not ever make soup this way again.  Over 900  milligrams of sodium in 1 cup!!!! At least it tasted better...especially when I squeezed on some fresh lemon juice.  (That is one cup).

The bean salad had reasonable numbers and I did not eat too much of that either.  I will be hungry later!

Night all.