Need to go to a potluck and I signed up for salad. It is not a good time for salad in the US.

Any suggestions for all-canned or jarred or cooked salads?

#food #ActuallyAsking

#bloomscrolling
I walked my morning walk, which also featured turkeys blocking both sidewalks.

Good night, gentle citizens of the Fediverse. I hear a train in the distance, excellent night sound.

Youngest is hemming a kerchief with a rolled hem foot. Let's tune in and see how this is going:

Wow, this looks great.
Aeughhhhhghghgghhhhhh!
Ehhhhh.
I got this.
Aergrrrgrggghghhgh.

Good night, gentle citizens of the instances. I survived a team meeting as well as laundry and scone baking. Busy day.

Today I learned that vegetarian hot dogs swell and look very peculiar in an airfryer.
Diced potato is 10/10 though.

#food #AdventuresWithAFreeFryer

Mead in progress, and we have a new-to-us air fryer. Not sure what century our kitchen is in.

Next Textile Talk (free, Zoom, May 6, 2pm Eastern): Jim Arendt--Denim and Persistence in Difficult Times, SAQA

Jim Arendt's practice is rooted in understanding how we relate to labor. His close proximity to the manufacturing and agrarian landscapes of America, as well as the dramatic shifts in both sectors of the economy during Jim's lifetime, has led him to pursue an understanding of America's people and craft.

preregister here: https://www.saqa.com/resources/textiletalks

#TextileTalks #denim #sewing #FiberArt

Next Textile talk (Free, over zoom, April 22, 2pm EDT/Utc-4): Fandom in the Quilt World: A New Architecture of Participation, International Quilt Museum

"Kristin Barrus is an Academic Quiltmaker who examines the anthropology of quilts. Using the academic field of fan studies, she investigates how quiltmakers embrace fan identities through making, purchasing, organic membership in digital and in-person communities. "

Register at https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/textile-talks

#TextileTalks #quilting #fiberArts

I had to cut the description way way down. Here is Phyllis Biffle-Elmore's website. https://www.thequiltofsouls.com/

I may throw in a few more tags in a hot sec.
#TextileTalks

Next Textile Talks (free, Zoom, April 15, from 2:00 PM EDT (GMT/UTC -4)): Quilts That Speak: What History Has Buried, Surface Design Association
"... celebrate the publication of Quilt of Souls: A Memoir by Phyllis Biffle-Elmore. ...In Phyllis’ memoir each chapter tells the stories of the people whose clothes make up her own Quilt of Souls."

Preregister https://www.surfacedesign.org/events-exhibits/events/textile-talks/

#quilting #TextileTalks #FiberArts

Good night, gentle citizens of the instances. I hope you write good dreams.

#bloomscrolling

Apriltober 10 & 11. One Bed, continues. The team has a fight with a big critter, then retreat to a base camp.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82270206/chapters/218404131

#fanfix #XenobladeX #Apriltober

Apriltober days 8 & 9. Yesterday was a slice of life, shopping in the colony. "Great fences make good neighbors!"
Today starts a multi chapter fic, Only One Bed. I am going there, swerving hard, and plowing forward. Featuring Gwin & Irina. (& not /, iykyk)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82270206/chapters/218055796
#fanfix #XenobladeChroniclesX #Apriltober

Apriltober 2025, day 7, and the topic is Wrong Number. The young sidekick alien misplaced his communication device. Don't worry. His little siblings find it. Meh meh meh!!!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82270206/chapters/217721381

#XenobladeChroniclesX #fanfiction #Apriltober #Tatsu (my boy!!!)

Apriltober 2026 day 6, the last of the hot cocoa series with a guest character, Beans. That's Youngest's game avatar, a chaotic creature and very fun to write about.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82270206/chapters/217510481

#fanfiction #XenobladeX #Apriltober2026

Apriltober 4 and 5. Doug buys a woman an emergency cocoa and listens to her sorrows, because there's not much else to do sometimes. And my most recent avatar apologizes buys Doug an apology cocoa.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82270206/chapters/217063266

#fanfic #XenobladeX #soMuchHotChocolate

Good night, gentle citizens of the instances. Super Mario movie good, also Pokopia and onigiri. I am but a simple woman.

Apriltober day 3. More hot chocolate, as Doug the sturdy Harrier buys a treat for a somewhat shaken colleague. My second avatar is Case, younger and shaken in spite of being a wiz at combat.

Bonus: I'm going to get better at drawing cocoa by the end of this.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82270206/chapters/216881421

#fanfic #XenobladeX #Apriltober