Progress rate at 50%

[wiseheart]

Meaning the back cover of the dollhouse quiet books. I've finished the bird house for Book #1 and started on the same for Book #2, but felt simply too tired to finish. So I decided that tomorrow is another day and set it aside for later.

Today we've finally put behind us the last part of the carpet cleaning project: Mum has washed up the last portion of china and glassware and I put everything back into the cabinet. Then I had to cook lunch, which was blessedly easy: just putting the pre-cooked pig knuckle into the oven and the portioned bread dumplings into boiling water. The only actual work was making the salad. I do buy this ready-to-eat bags of salad, but Mum can't eat them the way they come, so I have to hack everything into microscopic bites before adding the oil, vinegar, lemon juice and spices.

This being Sunday, there was nothing worth watching on telly, up to 7pm, when we had the usual re-run of the GBBO. So I was lazing around in my bedroom, watching stupid YouTube videos on my new-ish (as compared with the nine-year-old mini, which I'd still prefer if I could) iPad and talking on the phone with Erna, our art teacher. We've been casual friends for 30 years by now; it's so nice that we can pick up the phone after a week or two and continue our conversation as if we'd have last talked an hour before. :)

Comments

[meathiel]

How does your mum eat the pork knuckle if she doesn't manage a salad?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This is the slow-cooked stuff you can sometimes buy at Lidl. When I took it out of the oven after 40 minutes and grabbed the bone, it came out without any effort. Very tender meat.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Is there meat on the pig knuckle?

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Friends like Erna are to be cherished. It sounds like the back book covers are going to be much faster and easier than the fronts.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Hacked salad with old people I can understand. Why DiL did the same, and with a whole head of lettuce on top of that, when we all have teeth for chewing, I won't understand. And then she dumped sugar onto the mush, as they do in the east of our country. Luckily in the east only...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Very tender meat in fact, thanks to the slow cooking.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Not for long, I'm afraid. These are just the background elements. Velocity will be slowing down as soon as I start on the embellishments. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Grandma used to dump sugar onto the lettuce as well, although without hacking it. We abolished the practice. I usually put a bit of sunflower oil, apple vinegar, lemon juice and just a few drops of sweetener onto our mixed salads.