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I thought it might be nice to post what people are doing to have fun.
I am having fun resetting my old jewelry.
Also having fun this week digging up the ancient garbage heap in my woods, and today found an old iodine bottle with a skull and crossbones.
Anybody have any fun new activities?
Wow, you know you're a simple live-er when you define fun as finding old stuff in the woods. :)
The most recent fun I've had is helping my picker/reseller SIL with a big "end-of-summer" flea market last weekend. He has a booth in an antique place and it was fun to scout stuff there (Beatles Second Album LP, possible new end table for living room, Annie Sloan chalk paint), walk over to City Market for sushi for lunch (I desperately miss Asian food up here), people watch and then help SIL break down his booth, and then the Grand Finale: Maple Creemees!
Hiking, kayaking, got takeout. Found a movie theater that does not require masks and that is next on my fun list.
I don't know if it's fun but have been enjoying collecting seed in the wild. It's legal here. Looking forward to hopefully a fun get-together coming up with an old friend from high school who lives not too far away.
iris lilies
9-14-21, 3:29pm
This week I completed a craft project that I’ve been procrastinating on for more than a year and I had FUN doing it! It turned out to be easy Peezy, but I was dreading that it would not be.
OK you asked,! so now I have to show you pictures. I am besotted with classic Fortuny silk light shades.
I found a copy of one of them at a vintage store for $6.00 I planned to paint it with gold paint to look like the original. My cousin mailed me his gold powder paint, I didnt even have to buy it!
The painting project went well, so now I just need to find an old 1920s floor lamp and they are all around for about $100. DH will rewire it if needed. I can get my careful copy for about $110 and the original is $1800.
1. Original Fortuny floor lamp
2. Close up of painted Fortuny silk shade
3. iris’ hand painted copy
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Its fall, so for fun I knit. Usually socks or mittens. Always with colorful/self striping yarn because one solid color is too boring. :)
Is a maple cremee an ice cream thing, Catherine?
IL, that is gorgeous!
Yppej, your kayaking comment actually inspired this thread, so thank you.
Herbgeek, I feel guilty NOT knitting right now but did buy an Interweave Knits to read for fun.
Pinkytoe, we collect old apples and save the seeds to we're right there with you. And they're coming in right now so time for an apple road trip.
Astrophotography
Wildlife photography
Kayaking in odd places with my folding kayak
Gardening
Heading to the UK this week to hike Hadrian's Wall
Recreational logging
Bae, your trip sounds wonderful--I hope you will get to spend lots of time with your daughter!
Recreational logging sounds very cool--I think we are getting to that one, if we could just figure out how to get a Morgan horse or two.
Bae, your trip sounds wonderful--I hope you will get to spend lots of time with your daughter!
Yes, the pandemic has kept us apart for nearly two years now, and caused multiple fun expeditions to get cancelled. Fingers crossed this time.
The PCR test I just took so that I could fly may not be done in time, because WA State is backed up on testing, the results might not even be back in time to be "current". There's allegedly a popup testing place near the airport where you can hand them a bale of cash, and you get 60 minute turnaround, we shall see what happens. And when her mother tried to fly out last week, someone had hacked the UK's traveler-locator system, so she was unable to travel for several days until that got sorted out, which of course also required an additional covid test as the first had expired.
Fun!
Is a maple cremee an ice cream thing, Catherine?
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Creemees are a Vermont ice cream thing. They're the same as soft-serve ice cream anywhere else. Not sure why they're called creemees in VT.
Creemees are a Vermont ice cream thing. They're the same as soft-serve ice cream anywhere else. Not sure why they're called creemees in VT.
Cool-look what I found when I googled it:
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(https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+ice+cream+called+in+Vermont?&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS874US874&sxsrf=AOaemvI65Q3QO6tC47jn-n65pjHBduHCeA:1631653763959&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=UW6UqMgkn4GTYM%252CjUvTOTc5liH-aM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRqg6NAK7D6zJ6zJ8ob393XPVFVWQ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjvx_z3r__yAhX2S_EDHW0XBc4Q9QF6BAgMEAE#i mgrc=UW6UqMgkn4GTYM)
So, Why Do Vermonters Call It a Creemee? In the past, ice cream in Vermont was made with a higher butterfat content, which gave it a creamier texture, so "creemee" comes from "creamy." "
rosarugosa
9-14-21, 8:32pm
Bae: I know someone who did Hadrian's Wall and that absolutely sounded like my idea of a good time, so enjoy!
I am on vacation this week and today we visited a wonderful botanical garden, and some great museums may be in our near future.
Cool-look what I found when I googled it:
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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6LGOIzY50gBNZ2mGAGdojDvWzhNkMK eGSJSqBQNVTzw&s
(https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+ice+cream+called+in+Vermont?&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS874US874&sxsrf=AOaemvI65Q3QO6tC47jn-n65pjHBduHCeA:1631653763959&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=UW6UqMgkn4GTYM%252CjUvTOTc5liH-aM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRqg6NAK7D6zJ6zJ8ob393XPVFVWQ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjvx_z3r__yAhX2S_EDHW0XBc4Q9QF6BAgMEAE#i mgrc=UW6UqMgkn4GTYM)
So, Why Do Vermonters Call It a Creemee? In the past, ice cream in Vermont was made with a higher butterfat content, which gave it a creamier texture, so "creemee" comes from "creamy." "
That's right--there is definitely more butterfat in creemees! So good.
iris lilies
9-14-21, 8:58pm
That's right--there is definitely more butterfat in creemees! So good.
I am not sure there can ever be too much butterfat in anything.
I am on vacation this week and today we visited a wonderful botanical garden, and some great museums may be in our near future.
The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew are on the list too, I can't wait!
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