I made bread yesterday.  The loaves aren't perfect as I was in a hurry by the time I could shape them, but they are edible.  I used my favorite recipe, Honey Whole Wheat Bread.

Grain mill attachment on mixer:

I started by cracking some grain for the chickens....

and then moved on to a finer setting for flour.

The cloth is in Yellow and Mardi Gras, with a 27 stitch pattern and 6 stitch border.  I started it on Monday night while we watched UHF (son #2's birthday present) and finished it on Tuesday while listening to Iron Sharpens Iron. 

Well, I notice that all the photos are back and the post in which I replaced the photos, had two of each!  So I've fixed that, but still wonder what was going on?

Here is the finished Monkey/Market bag, hanging from the weeping cherry in our front yard, and holding a toy dog:

Here is the Garter Stitch Tulip Bud cloth, which I did to participate in the Dishcloth of the Week group on Ravelry:

This is a Ballband dishcloth, in Neon Green and Pink Lemonade.  I don't like the pooling but it is a bright cheerful cloth anyway (and much brighter in person).

Not a new thing exactly, but more evidence for the theory that breastfeeding reduces the chance of cancer...

Breastfeeding 'significantly' lowers cancer risk, study finds

I don't know where my photos have gone!  I hope it is some kind of blogdrive glitch!  I'll have to come back and look into it another time.

Update:  I've restored some from the last post with photos, but I'll wait to see if others will come back on their own!

This is a site that I want to spend some more time on - there are some good articles as well as recipes.

A Year of Crockpotting

Completed dishcloths:

Ballband dishcloth

Nine-patch dishrag:

In progress:

Monkey/market bag

A Little Bit Country dishcloth (pattern Sue Schaefer) - one of my favorite patterns.  Not sure of the colorway but it is P&C.

Waffle stitch dishcloth

We've got a new series of CSI Miami going on now.  What is with Frank and the uniform, and no hair?  The hair I can understand, but why in uniform?

Calamine lotion
you bring me
Relief from my hives.

(Hives provoked by allergic reaction to insect bite back at the end of July.  And yes, I have been to the doctor - twice.  The old-fashioned over the counter remedy is about the only thing that has worked so far, although I am still taking the recommended antihistimine.)

This is a post for links to fall-themed dishcloth patterns.  I hope to work on it in the following days, and then either post all the links in the sidebar, or just put a link to this post so you can get to it easily.

Gary the Gobbler

Candy Corn Illusion Cloth

Maple Leaf Cloth (you have to scroll down to find it)

Turkey Leg (drumstick)

Thanks

Apple Cloth

Pumpkin (smiling jack o lantern)

Punkin (another smiling jack o lantern)

Maple Leaf Dishcloth

If I find any more that I like, I'll add them. 

Oh my, I have really dropped the blogging ball, haven't I?  Sorry about that.  And right now I need to go get a few things done, so won't try to play catch-up this time, but I will try to do better.

I have been knitting quite a few dishcloths, and am hoping to sell them at the Women's Institute market or a local village's tabletop sales.   I'll try to get some photos up of some of them.

Last week we were on a camping holiday with others from our denomination, on a pig farm in Suffolk.  It is called Athelington Hall - you can see the website here .  Do click on the pig photo at the bottom, and then navigate your way around the other page, to find the song "Stand By Your Ham" performed by a number of pig farmers in the UK.   Pig farmers in the UK were operating for a while at a loss, because of the power of the supermarkets (fuelled further by the fact that most of us don't buy from smaller suppliers) - the campaign was to address that issue and I don't know how successful it was or is.  Peter's pigs were lovely, and not smelly up close and personal (another lady and I got to go see Peter feed them), but my family was the closest tent to the pig sheds and we sure got a nose full from time to time!   We had a lovely time, with good teaching, fellowship, and fun and games.  I miss our new friends already.  As we are still relatively new to our current church, this was the first AH camp we have gone to, and I do hope we can go again.

Well, since I have no photos to show you currently, I'll leave you with a link to someone who does - enjoy Tea's place .

Bowood House in Wiltshire has a lovely Rhododendron garden.  We went in May, during the brief spell of good weather here.  Here's a few photos, and if I can resize some more, I'll try to put them up.