Well, I just got off the phone with my research student (and prior to that, the site-manager). The research is off for this afternoon because of the rain and potential for bad weather.

I'm kinda bummed but also kinda not bummed. This means I can go home, have a nice bowl of soup for lunch, do my laundry, relax a bit, and think about cooking a real dinner.

TChem mentioned samosas, which gets me thinking about a chapatti recipe I've been wanting to try for a while. If I can just figure out some kind of off-the-shelf protein/maindish to go with them, I'm set. (Maybe something with chick peas? I have a lot of canned chick peas on hand. Maybe I could do just baked curry-spiced chick peas and then make the chapattis and have some fruit or something along with them.)

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Some free patterns! Sewing this time. Go to Amy Butler's site and click on the bottom link (the pattern-browser opens in a new window; the patterns are as pdf files.

I particularly like the little cat pillow pattern, and the Lotus Brick Quilt pattern (the first one on the list). I'm thinking I might have enough of a chunk of vintage feed-sack fabric I bought at a resale shop for one of the little cats...and that seems like as good a use for it as any.

And Make your own felt monster tutorial on Flickr. (*I* think he looks more like a funny cat than a monster...somehow he reminds me a bit of my brother and sister in law's big Maine Coon cat. Maybe it's the teeth.)