Even after 9 hours of sleep I spent the day exhausted. I was too tired to pick up my knitting or spinning. Way to tired to warp the loom. To tired to play Wii tennis or bowling . Too tired for Cubii2 .
I did do a Bridgerton season two marathon. I watched 2 1/2 episodes. I am liking it so far.
We did do a Disney+ shorts marathon on “I am Groot”. If you love Baby Groot you’re going to love these minis. It was very relaxing. Baby Groot is always amusing.
Teri and I made a mother daughter silk scarf for Teri. Teri choose the colors, warped the loom and started weaving it. She choose Debbie Bliss Silk yarn for the weft and cotton cone yarn for the warp
I offered to send the loom home with her so that she could finish the scarf. She politely declined.
So in between other projects I finished the weaving. Did the finishing work and the final trim. I bet she is sorry that she missed the hot water bath and thwacking. The thwacking can be a great stress buster.
Tomorrow this is being mailed to Teri. I do have the scarf folded in half for the picture. The edge of the loom she used is in the background.
I did my first 30 minute workout since I got sick last November. I am really hoping that this is not 1 step forward 2 steps backwards. It did leave me tired.
After finding I like long cooked oatmeal rather then instant. After the daily boil overs on the stove and the ensuing mess to clean up. I got this Hamilton beach rice cooker. I just love it and it has not boiled over the stovetop once. I get the first bowl hot from the cooker and refrigerate the other four servings eat them cold. Yes this is so good you can eat a cold. But if you would like you can also microwave the others for one minute.
My favorite recipe makes 5 servings.
Sheri’s Favorite Oatmeal Recipe
1/2 teaspoon of salt
3 cups of rolled oats, they include a measuring cup with the rice cooker.
Fill to the #4 water line.
This is my basic recipe. You can also add flaxseed, nuts or dried fruit. Stir in well before adding water. I also like to stir it after adding the water too.
Press hot cereal and 10 minutes. You do this by pressing the Hot Cereal button until it reaches 10. Do some chores. After the oatmeal is cooked wait 2 minutes and measure out 1 cup servings. The calorie count will vary depending on what you put in. Remember that nuts and flax seed will up the fat grams. Anything you add beyond the above recipe will add extra calories so be prudent on your add ins.
John likes this for steaming vegetables. He likes how easy the clean up is. For Spinach he set it for 2 minutes on Steam Cook and it came out perfect.
I divided my time today between making more stitch markers and knitting Operation Gratitude scarfs. I won’t sho the stitch markers, they are all red. I have been working on this scarf for a few months at my slower speed. I do have 2 more scarfs for Operation Gratitude in different parts of the house.
This afternoon I was bored and decided I needed some play time. So I got out a drawer of beads. Pick out a few strands of beads, then got out my box of findings. Findings are the bits and pieces that are needed to make jewelry and more importantly stitch markers. Today I made 2 strands of glass mushrooms and 1 strand of ladybugs into stitch markers. I also took a few miscellaneous beads , then made a few more stitch markers. I have a few more strands pulled for tomorrow too. The stitch markers on the left are the ones that just happened to wonder off to my knitting room. I finally made the hand carved bear bead into a stitch marker, it has been in my box for years. The rest I will bring to knitting guild with me.
