T Stands for Another Week and Verbal Ramble

Hello and Happy T day.  Once again it is time for T.  Stop by and join us at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog and share you drink related post with us.

So this was my first week of retirement, but it felt more like the start of a normal summer break from school. I think normal is not exactly the right word, as of course right now nothing is exactly normal. 

And here's my highlights from my week.

My daughter volunteered to make more face masks for us, but she needed fabric. I knew I had a bunch of fat quarters, but when I went to get them they weren't there. So the question was, where did I put them last time I reorganized?

 I haven't done a lot of sewing for a few years, and I knew I put my fabric away. I thought maybe the fabric under my daughter's old bed, but  no fabric was there (however I did find an under-the-bed box filled with some of her old clothes, which I had her go through this past weekend when she came home, so that was in unexpected but good to be done cleaning project.) Then I went into our house addition, which was something my husband started 20 years ago and never completed, but it is enclosed so has become a great place to store things, and low and behold I found them. 

I knew I had quite a stash.

It wasn't just the fat quarters but a bunch of scrap fabric I had.

I love looking through fabric so it was exciting to go through them and get inspired to sew.

Instead of putting them back out in the addition (which is good because one big project I have is to clean it out), this time I did put the in a bin under my daughter's bed.  I hope to get sewing this summer. Let's see if I can remember where they are when I go start sewing again and want the fabric.

And I made this coconut-lime pound cake.

It's a yummy warm weather cake, but I have to say next time I am going to double this recipe as this is the smallest cake I've ever made.

Last summer the freezer we had in my basement died, and we'd never replaced it. The hubby and I decided a second refrigerator would work better for us than a new freezer. It would give us a bit of freezer space but also extra room for things we just want to keep cold. We'd looked a bit over the winter but never saw what we wanted in the price range we wanted to pay, and then Covid-19 hit and our shopping stopped. Recently though we started looking online, and last week I finally found one. In fact, when I called the store to see if they had any left, they said just one, so I bought it over the phone and then we went down in my husband's truck to pick it up.

Right now it is in our garage, but next time for daughter's beau comes to visit he'll help us move it into the basement. But we do have it plugged in and already it is coming in handy, mostly because I am only going to the grocery store every week and half or so.

And I need to share my T drink.

When my daughter visited this past weekend we went for take out sandwiches and frappes. In most parts of the country a frappe is called a milkshake. But here in New England, a milkshake is just flavored milk stirred up. A frappe (pronounced frap) is milk, syrup and ice cream. My choice is always coffee, made with coffee ice cream and coffee syrup too.

It sure tasted yummy.

And my sandwich was also particulary yummy too.

I bet you guessed it was a lobster roll. Smile. However this one is not from Pop's. (For those of you who stop by on T day you might remember I like to get lobster rolls at Pop's.) We went to Pop's but they weren't open when we got there (they close in the afternoon for a couple of hours which happened to be within the time frame we showed). So instead we went to a place near our house called Johnson's. 

The lobster roll was still yummy but not quite as big as it would have been at Pop's.

And that's the excitement in my world.

Have a great T day and thanks for visiting.