When I got home from the airport last Monday, around 7 in the morning, my husband proudly showed me the progress in the garden. It was all on account of the five or so cucumbers hiding under the leaves that started this week of a sort of studio hiatus where I spent most of my time in the kitchen.
How many ways can you use cucumbers, with more coming in every day…
There is a container of cucumber water (a holdover from the ANWG conference, if you ate in the cafeteria you know what this is about…)
There was this huge bowl of cucumber salad, my mom’s recipe…
There was this huge bowl of Tabbouleh, which also used up a ton of the parsley and mint from the garden as well…
And it was all on account of the proliferation of basil that I embarked on a double batch of pesto for the freezer…
And it was all on account of the overripe bananas in the wire basket on the counter that I baked a couple loaves of banana bread.
Meanwhile it was all on account of my housekeeper coming on Thursday to clean, who is coincidentally my weaving guild president, and when I showed her my recently finished on the plane sweater we started talking about what I should knit next. (Berroco Badia Tank in Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool disc. color)
There was the pile of lovely angora/silk skeins that needed a base.
There was this cone of unknown origin. All I remember was I got it years ago at WEBS and it was expensive, probably cashmere or something, and if I plied it, I could come close to the grist of the angora. Which would mean I’d have to get out the dye pot on account of it is white and the angora skeins are not…
Which means I couldn’t start a new sweater right away, so I went to plan B, which was this group of Be Sweet Bamboo, hand dyed in South Africa and a C2 Knit pattern, the Katy Tank…
And since I have another week before I have to think about packing and shipping for Sievers I thought I might be able to get another run of scarves on the loom, on account of I have lots of blues and oranges on the shelves and not a lot of other colors…
And on account of I made a rule that I always have to have a sewing project going, I pulled this pattern (Vogue 1192) and pre-shrunk the three yards of rayon challis I bought from Style Crest Fabrics on my NYC fabric buying trip in April, since I have more than I need and I need a lining, I figured I can self line the dress with itself…
On account of I’m in the middle of converting all the skeins of yarn to balls, I have to wait until I finish that before I can layout the pattern and cut a muslin…
On account of landing in Newark to erratic weather and unpredictable days and a free week, I’m all over the place and enjoying my gardens and kitchen and the fruits of my garden, dodging severe thunderstorms, a tornado watch here and there, and more cucumbers than I know what to do with…
Stay tuned…
What fun! So many things to play with!
Way to go with the flow, Daryl!
Oh, you are having just too much fun! Enjoy all of the cucumber delights. I would have made cucumber salad right away, too, since I am German and that is what we love most in the salad family.
Daryl, you make me feel like a slug. You’ve got more energy than I would know what to do with. God bless you!
boats-cucumber boats when they get to big and if you are getting as much rain as we are see how many you can get to float. Boats!
slugettes…………that be us 🙂 heat, ugh. your cucumber salad looks divine, as does everything else……..