TNT: Back in the Routine

 

This is what we woke up to yesterday. Most of it has been blown or melted away already. It was nice while it lasted. 

I thought that since it was a post Olympic day that I could get back to my usual activities around here but The Mister had other ideas. 

Over the weekend I finished the motif on the left. I had planned on it being the last for the year but I relented and decided to work on the one on the top this week since it's still February. 

My normal afternoons were usually spent working on this and listening to Dateline podcasts so I got right back to it. I finished that block and moved the hoop to another. 

I also picked up Funky Flower for a few minutes and worked on some leaves. 

The early morning had been spent playing with Betty. I had a big bagel fail the night before and couldn't remember which starter I had used so I tested them by making more dough. Was it Brown Betty, the original, or was it Betty White or maybe it was the newly resurrected one from the fridge, Zombie Betty? The guilty party is on the left and it was Betty White. As you can see, her bagel dough did not rise like the other two. I don't know why but I can't get a strong white flour starter going for anything. 

Unlike the hockey pucks I had made the day before, all the Betty's came through albeit in their own sweet time. Even slow poke Betty White managed to puff up when boiled. I sure hope they freeze well because that's an awful lot of wonky looking bagels.