Quilting On Two Quilts

I decided not to hand quilt the famous pumpkins Jack and Gourdy Throw a Party.  Since I did not attend the guild meeting last night, but chose to watch the debate, I took the time to take out the pumpkin and candy corn I did already hand quilt.

Too much trouble at this point to do so.  I will do some sort of all over design, maybe some Halloween items tossed into the mix.

Then I need to begin working on the Saints.  Christmas will be here quicker than you think!

Look for the Wicked Blog Hop to begin soon, I will be representing on Oct 30, an alpha prime spot!  Check my sidebar for info on that Hop.  I am so pleased to be part of it.  The last one brought many new people here.

I have a meeting tonight of a special group of quilt artists.  I have been having problems with making the meetings but I am so looking forward to this one.

It is nearly 10 AM and I need to wash hair and get dressed.  I have been cooking, zucchini bread, a new batch of yogurt where I used up all the milk and pancakes for future breakfasts.  It is amazing how long this all takes when you ahve to go out and stop dogs from barking at squirrels, put dogs out for playing too rough with the heartworm treatment boy, bring dogs in from running, offer treats to capture dogs who ignore you.

Sigh.

glen

Cooking class at BD Kitchens

Ann and I had an interesting cooking class at BD tonight.  It was a mahi with mango salsa and a Mediterranean salad and a frangipani crème mousse dessert.
All but the fish was good!  But you know I don’t like fish.  I went for other reasons.  Reasons that will become apparent at some point.
here are the pictures from the class:
The chef instructor cut up the salad and made a really nice Mediterranean salad with a light dressing of salad vinegar, garlic and olive oil.  He put dried mint in the salad that is grown in the garden behind the restaurant. 
 
Get it yet?
Then he made the Mahi with Mango Salsa with red pepper and some green onion.  The mango was not ripe so it was not a sweet as it could have been.  But passable.

Get it yet?

Of course I don’t like fish so I am not really a good judge of whether it was good or not.  But I am leaning toward not so good because of the problem with the mango not being ripe.  The presentation on the plate was lacking because it was a large plate and a small piece of fish.  I would have plated TWO pieces of fish there.  But…….just saying.
The dessert, how could anyone mess up this dessert!  It was a good thing all around.  And easy to do.  Vanilla pudding, heavy whipping cream and frangipani liquor.  It was the prettiest thing all night.  No matter what angle you look at it, it still looks good!
 
So, you say, if I don’t like fish, why would I have taken this class?

This is the boyfriend from hell.  And when I walked in he knew I was there!  He told Wanda he knew me and he was pretty sure I didn’t like him.  I think he is right.  Although, I am glad he has found something he can be successful doing, I sincerely hope he has learned other lessons as well.
It was the best $50 I have spent in a long while! 
glen

Waiting, the Louisiana Blue Dog, the Farmer's Market and Lorenzo

Waiting for the morning to bring Dutch in for his bone biopsy.  It is a mostly calm day, rainy but without the terror and fear of the original diagnosis of just plain bone cancer.  the hope is that the biopsy comes back with the fungal osteomyelitis diagnosis instead.  That is the best outcome for us here.  So we are waiting.

 This is Valerie's house by the way, the french drains were overwhelmed with the 3.75 inches that fell in about an hour.

And friend and fellow blogger from Geema's Wonderings spent Saturday night at the ER Vet Clinic at LSU with her Lorenzo.  The little guy stood his own against three bigger dogs.  He has some broken ribs and they are waiting to stabilize him for surgery on Monday.  He is a tough little guy and seems determined to go home.  He says he has some different plans for those dogs this next time!  Here's sending healing thoughts to him and steady hands to the surgeons tomorrow.  And I know Charlene and hubby want him home as soon as they can get him there!

I distracted myself with the Farmer's Market yesterday.  got some okra

And some corn  and some peaches

and some figs

and some honey

Then I went to the Louisiana Cajun Blue Dog Show at the Shaw Center yesterday.  George Rodrigues' Louisiana Blue Dog is his trademark work that has been shown all over the world.  The Blue Dog is a Loup Garou, which is a Cajun Werewolf.  The Loup Garou my grandmother scared us with was not nearly as cute as this guy!

Rodrigue did ad campaigns for Xerox.  And has painted many famous people's portraits, mostly related to Louisiana and the Cajuns.  But he did Ronald Reagan as well.  Very talented man. 

Here is a Journal Cover.  You can see his studio and more of his art at

http://www.georgerodrigue.com/rodrigue/bio.htm

Don't you just love his stuff.  And that Blue Dog is a killer! 

My little salt and pepper dogs are jealous!