I Like Thursday: Lots of Goodies

I've been doing!  Just not posting.  Some highlights of my week:

I like baking.  Rob wanted to capture an action shot.  Irish soda bread was cooling while chocolate oatmeal bars and cheesecake stuffed cookie were in the oven.  I was mixing together peanut butter sandwich cookies.  This is typical - ingredients and recipes scattered across the countertop.  I never bake just one thing!

I made a half recipe of the stuffed cookie.  I swore I had baked it in a 4" pan the last time, but seeing how this overflowed I must have misremembered.  It looked suspiciously full when I put it in the oven, so I put a larger pan underneath.  Glad I did or the oven would have been a mess!

This little rose-breasted nuthatch started showing up at the feeders a week or two ago.  From this angle he almost looks like a chickadee.  He's so much smaller than the usual nuthatches that come by.  Isn't he cute?

I've gone back and forth on the sunny lanes layout.  I think the prism layout would work great if all the HST were the same color.  But with so much scrappiness, I decided to stick with diamonds.  Now the only debate is to shift it a row and a half up, so there's a diamond in the center.  I can figure that out as I start stitching it together.  I will do that prism layout for a wall hanging in the future.

I got a phone call from an unknown number a few days ago, which I let go to voice mail.  The caller ID looked vaguely familiar, so when they immediately called back, I answered.  The woman asked for my mother by name.  As I was saying no one lives here by that name I put two and two together:  this was my mothers college roommate.  I was baffled how she got my phone number.  Once I confirmed who she was and explained who I was, we spent next few minutes chatting.  I made sure she got the correct phone number for my mother and answered questions about being laid off and hired in the last year.  It was such a silly serendipitous call - the highlight of my day!

That's some of the fun things this week that made me smile.  I hope you enjoyed.  There's more tidbits of interesting stuff with the other I Like Thursday bloggers over at Not Afraid of Color.