Breakfast tacos for 14

Cooking for this crew at the beach is the best “food is love” challenge …

So after last night’s dinner it occurred to me, somewhat belatedly, that it would be a good idea to note some basic quantities for future reference. Hence, breakfast tacos for 14.

Assemble 20 HEB flour tortillas, 15 eggs, two packages of shredded cheese, two pounds of bacon, 10 hash brown patties (or half a bag of tater tots), 2-3 avocados, and assorted salsas.

Put the bacon in the oven at 350 until crispy, about 30-40 minutes. Drain on paper towels.

Raise oven temp to 425 and bake potatoes until done.

Peel and slice avocados

Toast tortillas on open flame, turning frequently for about thirty seconds each

Preheat frying pan, add copious amounts of butter, and scramble eggs until gently set

Try to have lots of coffee and some leftover blueberry crumb cake on hand to keep everyone happy until the breakfast taco bar opens for self service.

Clean it all up and start thinking about what to have for dinner whilst everyone makes sandwiches for lunch on the beach.

Gotta love a week in Avon, NC …

Desperate hope

There has been terrible flash flooding two hours west of us and the rain has put the kibosh on the Red White and Buda celebration that was planned. So I’ve been doomscrolling and found this, written by the son of the Sandra Boynton …

Peace pin variation

‘Tis the season

Tomato season doesn’t last long in Texas, where we’ve already weathered a week of triple digit heat. But oh how we love every precious day of it …

And yes, the Peace Pin Project continues on. These two pins, reading “Fenna” which is a Dutch name associated with “peace,” were made for the proud grandmother of newborn Fenna Elizabeth in The Netherlands …

Fair linen

The Episcopal Church, into which I was born, is known to be a stickler for details. And here I pause to wonder if that's why I find it attractive, or if it is in part the cause of my own fascination with details. In any case, after some 10,000+ stitches and 30+ hours of work, the 100" x 26" fair linen was completed the day before Maunday Thursday. On deadline, in other words.

I did take some process photos along the way, as I haven't done this kind of embroidery for a while and want to remember what and how I did it this time so that I can refer back. The linen is a mid-weight Belgian linen from Almy (60 threads per inch) and the thread is 80/3 linen from Burnley and Trowbridge, which turned out to be a bit too slubby, so I'll be switching to 100/3 linen threads from Londonderry in the future.

 

Outline drawn in heat-erasable pen using a light box borrowed from my grandkiddos

Outline backstitched with two threads, then whipped with a single thread

 

Close-up of finished stitching after ironing erasable pen

Finished size 3"

And while I didn't think to get a close-up photo of the fair linen once it was ironed and on the altar, you can see it draped over the end of the altar in this photo taken the day before Easter ...

 

 

One final note: I emailed my iPhone photos to my laptop thinking it would be easier to compose this way ... it wasn't (sigh).

It’s been a month

I’ve been stitching a fair linen on deadline, hoping to get it done in time to put on the altar at St Liz for Easter …

The cloth is 100” x 26” and is being hemstitched at 20 stitches per inch. I’m loving every minute … but it’s taking a fair bit of time!

Don and I have also been volunteering at the Wildflower Center 2-3 days a week. On an off day, we took our grandkids with us and Parker took a (rare for me) great picture …

Thanks P!

Can you hear a pin drop?

I’m happy to say that I have completely lost to count of the peace pins … and realizing it really doesn’t matter …

I suppose I could comb back through the blog, but why? It is enough to know that they exist in the world, even if a few may have gone through the wash (no harm done … ironing usually puts them back to rights).

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Happy Birthdays

Happy 21st Birthday Logan! 

But how is this even possible?

And there is more happiness to report … at the Wildflower Center …

and in St Louis …

Spring is sprung for sure … but where the heck did the time go? 😉

Addendum (thanks to social media) 

A better use of my time

Don is being a responsible citizen and watching the president speak. I, on the other hand, have my hearing aids turned off and am looking at some of the pictures I took at the Wildflower Center today …

along with these pictures of the library that Parker and Ellis created in their bedroom by overturning a chair to house a checkout station and return bin … 

I even got my own library card, complete with QR code …

These are the things that give me joy. 

peace

 

If you’re new here, to learn more about the peace pin project and request your own (free) peace pin, click on this link.