{"id":1094,"date":"2009-09-28T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2009-09-28T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:30:59","slug":"muffin-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"Muffin Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Bangles&#8221; wrote a song about this, &#8220;It&#8217;s Just Another Muffin Monday,&#8221; and so it was my theme song for the day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1095\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1095\" title=\"blueberrymuffins\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/blueberrymuffins.jpg\" alt=\"Blueberry muffins with a strusel nut topping\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/blueberrymuffins.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/blueberrymuffins-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blueberry muffins with a strusel nut topping; there aren&#39;t this many muffins left as of the posting of this picture....<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m baking a loaf of bread as well.\u00a0 Dan is playing music and entertaining us.\u00a0 Terry is on bear lookout watch today; she spotted a large cinnamon brown black bear coming up the hill out by the garage.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t approach any closer than that as it didn&#8217;t like the sounds Terry was making.\u00a0 Mishkin never had a chance of seeing the bear as he runs too quickly up to his bedroom.\u00a0 We were trying to figure out how many individual bears we&#8217;ve seen so far this year, and it must be at least eight of them.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve seen several of those on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we had to saw our way out of the driveway to go to the post office.\u00a0 One of our bear neighbors was pulling choke cherry bushes down and across the driveway.\u00a0 These bushes are a good 20 feet tall and quite heavy, and even after we sawed them up and threw them out into the woods, he dragged them back out again.\u00a0 A brat bear but then, aren&#8217;t they all?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a new knitting project from a patterns book called &#8220;Folk Shawls.&#8221;\u00a0 This is from Norway and is called Box Lace, an adaptation from a weaving project.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1098\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1098\" title=\"boxlace1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/boxlace1.jpg\" alt=\"One one-third completed, it is starting to progress towards completion fairly quickly.\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/boxlace1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/boxlace1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One one-third completed, it is starting to progress towards completion fairly quickly.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The variegated yarn is in some of my most favorite shades of blue, and like all lace patterns the final result is still a matter of imagination.\u00a0 Blocking is where the magic happens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1099\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1099\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1099\" title=\"boxlace2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/boxlace2.jpg\" alt=\"The pattern is an all-over repeat of little boxes defined by borders.\" width=\"460\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/boxlace2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/boxlace2-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pattern is an all-over repeat of little boxes defined by borders.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have finally managed to learn the pattern and now I just just my chart on the computer to keep track of where I am within the repeat.<\/p>\n<p>We had company over the weekend, a good friend of mine for many years now, approaching 20 years which boggles the mind.\u00a0 I remember when she was just a baby! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1101\" style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1101\" title=\"cass-n-karen\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/cass-n-karen.jpg\" alt=\"Such fun to take her around on walks in the woods and show her around in the middle of nowhere.\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cass-n-karen.jpg 335w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cass-n-karen-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Such fun to take her around on walks in the woods and show her around in the middle of nowhere.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Bangles&#8221; wrote a song about this, &#8220;It&#8217;s Just Another Muffin Monday,&#8221; and so it was my theme song for the day. 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