Spanish stew, Tuesday Knitting Group, Textiles and Tea

Tuesday's lunch was from Spain on a Fork, Albert's Pinto Bean and Rice stew

as usual I subbed, no celery, omitted it, no sherry vinegar, used apple cider vinegar, not enough pinto beans, added one can cannellini beans, no parsley, used cilantro. Aside from that, it's exactly the same. Except no long grain rice, used brown rice. Also no bay leaf, used curry leaves.

The knitting group was wonderful today, work on a knitted toad, a sewn bear, sweaters, socks, and a vest from the yarn the knitter had spun. Such talent.

Chat included mystery ailments that doctors pass off as emotional, or age related, or female(!), the vagus nerve, heart testing, bear making, art, trees, companion planting, inventions, at-home teaching, music, coffee, pet chickens and more. 

We ended with a tour of the gallery, and the group really liked the history of the place, and of the artists group. One member may join them, yay, a recruit, where's my toaster?

And here's the flower arrangement, in an artist-made container, that was planned to give me Sunday if the library had not closed for the storm that wasn't, thereby canceling the opening. 

Containers and flower arrangement by the current group leader, T.

Textiles and Tea starred Dani Ortman, a weaver in fine threads, silk, cotton sometimes alpaca and hemp, and a skilled natural plant dyer.  Very sophisticated fine work, with subtle weave structures and colors.

 

Lovely Tuesday again. 

Happy day everyone,  you do you! Everybody else is taken.