daily yarns 'n more

breakfast spot

Every morning when we were in Door County we would bike to breakfast.  It was always a beautiful morning to eat outside, the weather was nice and the view was wonderful.

 

hey

I thought of the Beatles song Hey Jude when I was starting to write this post, plus I had to take a picture of Jude, because that is what Jim would call me back in our younger days :)

Back in Door County we went to a marina where there was this neat building called the Anderson Warehouse Graffiti, visiting boaters would sign the walls of this building.

It was neat reading all the names and words written on the walls.  Some really popped out at me, like Dawn & Steve our wonderful neighbors we had for 25 years back in Illinois, and the neat drawings people did.

And, Warren the name of my kids High School painted in the school colors, how cool is that.

The writings even made it to the peak of the building.

I had to give you a shadow shot since the word shadow was at the top of the building, so this is a distorted me giving you all a shadow wave from the marina.

 

herbs

I planted an herb garden this year.  I have rosemary, lemon thyme, basil and two kinds of oregano.  There is nothing like fresh herbs in a recipe.  We've wanted to get a dehydrator for so long, and living here we decided to finally get one.  I had been hanging the herbs to dry which worked pretty good, but now we'll see how the dehydrator works.

We already dried some onions from our garden and I can't wait to use them in soups this winter.  I had a hard time drying basil, so I've been making pesto, which is so darn good.  After this drying time these jars should be pretty well filled up, I hope to get way more jars filled by the time summer is over.

I can't wait to make that first pot of soup. I can't wait to smell the soup simmering on top of the wood stove.  I know, I'm pushing it a bit, but right now my house smells so good from the aroma of the herbs, that it must be doing something to me :)

My husband told me that we could dry our herbs how the people in the next town over dry theirs.  They put the herbs on screens and load their cars up with the herbs and let their cars bake in the hot sun.  I'm not sure I'm up for that.

it rained

Finally....I didn't even care that my wash was still out on the line.

Sad thing is the rain ended up being a bad storm and our neighbor down the hill had their house hit by a big branch that broke off their willow tree.

But today is another day.

beautiful :: overlook

The first day in Door County we drove around a bit and we stopped at an overlook to see the bay.

Can you tell we are excited to be on a vacation?

The weather was gorgeous from the moment we got there.  Still not done with photos from Door County.

 

mish :: mash

That's what you'll be getting here in this post...mish mash. 

We haven't had any rain here lately, at least not enough to help with the drought we are having.  This photo is at a wayside on our way to Illinois last week, we were there a couple of days to help pack up our son and dil who moved to Michigan.

This weekend we went to a Bluegrass & Gospel Festival and had an awesome time.  But, before the music started we went shopping, I in the Yarn shop and Jim in the Fly shop.  How convenient they are right next to each other :)

The young lady on the mandolin is going to turn 90 years old next week, she stood for every set her group played, which was for about 45 minutes each time.  I hope that if I make it to her age, that I have the same pep that's in her step.

If I keep eating healthy like I've been doing....I should.

Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.

 

fish :: boil

While in Door County we went to a fish boil.  It's very different from the ones we did back in Illinois, this fish boil was made with whitefish and we used salmon.  This restaurant put on a good show and was fun to watch.

Yum!!!

I can't wait to go back.

a classic

This old classic was found along side the Gus Klenke garage.  I just love old trucks like this.  Our neighbor down in the valley has a beautiful one, I'll try and remember to take a photo of it someday.

I still have a lot more photos from Door County coming.  It's summer and a busy time of year, but then when is it ever not busy over here.  So, more photos coming and photos of what's been happening around here coming soon.

 

summer :: fall

I finally get to show you a couple of bags I made.  These two were sent down to Texas.  I thought these were perfect for living by the gulf, to be able to cram all their beach stuff in them.  And right when I was about finished with the second one my embroidery machine locked up on me, NOT GOOD.  So, that is in for repair.

But, in the mean time I knitted myself a vest for the fall.  Yes, I have a turtle neck shirt on under the wool vest, and yes the temps were probably in the mid 80's, and no I won't show you my red face from the heat.  Luckily the shot came out okay for me to call it good so I could get the heck out of these warm clothes.

I hope to get visiting you all today, it's just been busy with our weekend project going on here that is almost finished.

You all have a wonderful day!

 

a wow moment

Thought you all would enjoy this video, watching it I had a "wow" moment.