"...please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket..."

in which our plucky heroine remembers the LongAgo...

All as a child, I wanted a pony. Children in books got ponies. I remember the pony man, who drove a cart through the neighborhoods, with a half dozen ponies strung behind. Sort of like an ice cream truck, and if there was some extra money, one could ride a pony while the cart went once around the block, but that was as close as it ever came in those early years. 

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~ DIY pony ~

The Acorn Hill Pony pattern on Ravelry turns out a very shapely knitted pony, and will make a good gift. The mostly flat "skin" is meant to fold and be stitched up in a clever way. I decided this pony needed some little felt ears stitched on, and a short visit to the fuchsia bush; it will be heading out fairly soon up to Olympia to join some of Kestrel's other toy animals 

partially stitched up but not yet stuffed or detailed
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This afternoon I peeled and cut away the buggy parts of all the windfall apples, before turning them into the maslin pan along with a bag of last years quince chunks from the freezer. The intent is for yet more jars of quince-apple-rosewater sauce for the pantry, which I'll go deal with the water bath part after finishing this blog post. The sauce is just a bit over-cooked, so it now has a lovely golden rosey color, because quince goes from white to gold to rose to red the longer it cooks, but the longer it cooks, the more you need to be there to pay attention to the pan. I was zooming all afternoon between kitchen chores, and almost lost the whole batch by forgetting to check it as often as I ought. Foolish plucky heroine needs to remember that the magic box has timers that can be set!

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Tomorrow's kitchen tasks include finishing the fig and lemon marmalade, which is partially prepared today: the lemon slices submerged in water all day, and the figs cut up and macerating in sugar. It would be really good if I could make a start on some of the Awesome Sauce as well, since the 15# of tomatoes are taking up space in the freezer that is needed for plums.

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September SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	4 barkcloth tea towels	box fan grille	greenwaste bin
2	yellow triangle pouch	-	-
3	knitted pony	-	-
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6	x	x	x
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x

today's gratitudes
- I managed to check on the apple quince sauce just before it started to stick and burn on the bottom, thereby saving a rather large batch of future food
- tiny knitted pony turned out rather well IMHO
- slightly cooler weather, enough so that I didn't need the AC today

Time of Isolation - Day 1904